As a teenage student at the Hill School in Pittston, Pennsylvania Leake requested an art class so frequently that the school hired an instructor from Philadelphia to teach him once a week.
The school district serves students from the city of Pittston, the boroughs of Avoca, Dupont, Duryea, Hughestown, and Yatesville, and Jenkins and Pittston townships.
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Arthur Laban Bates (1859–1934), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
Other multi-state organizations include CareFirst in the Mid-Atlantic, The Regence Group in the Pacific Northwest, and Highmark which serves Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia.
Also within driving distance are Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE, formerly Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton International Airport) near Allentown, Pennsylvania, John F. Kennedy International Airport and La Guardia Airport in New York, as well as the Trenton-Mercer Airport near Trenton and Princeton in Mercer County.
Community Bank, N.A., a bank servicing Upstate New York and Northeastern Pennsylvania
On June 11, the members of the Committee of Five were appointed; they were: John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.
The Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail is a Pennsylvania rail trail at Pine Grove Furnace State Park and is almost entirely on the "Old Railroad Bed Road" between Fuller Lake and Laurel Lake.
John Doe was an employee for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority SEPTA who had contracted Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome HIV/AIDS.
Donald L. Ritter (born 1940), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
Charles Hurlbut "Dutch" Sterrett (October 1, 1889, in Milroy, Pennsylvania – December 9, 1965) was a professional baseball player who played 2 seasons for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball.
Edward S. Walker was born in Abington, Pennsylvania.
Russell Errett (1817–1891), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Farmers Valley is an unincorporated community in Keating Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, between Coryville and Smethport.
Ravine Flyer II, a hybrid wooden roller coaster located at Waldameer Park in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
He was the son of Jasper Ewing Brady, a lawyer who later served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, and whose uncles included noted Indian fighters Samuel Brady and Hugh Brady.
The first top chairperson was publishing editor Dr. Michael Werner who established the Pennsylvania German newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe and an archive for Pennsylvania Dutch literature in Ober-Olm.
Henry B. Auchy (1861–1922) was a businessman famous for, along with Chester Albright, creating the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (later renamed Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 1904.
Kimberly-Clark Hi-Q is a U.S. high school academic quiz competition originating in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
DuBois Regional Airport, formerly DuBois-Jefferson County Airport, in Pennsylvania, United States (FAA: DUJ)
Jesse J. White, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
John Doebley began his undergraduate education as a biology major at West Chester State College in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
John Westbrook Hornbeck (1804–1848), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Kudzu was intentionally introduced to North America by the Soil Erosion Service and Civilian Conservation Corp in 1876 for the purpose of controlling soil erosion in Pennsylvania.
Lewis Findlay Watson (1819–1890), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
Auriti settled in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania and there created his famed work which in 2013 served as the inspiration for director Massimiliano Gioni's main curated pavilion on at the fifty fifth edition of the Venice Biennale.
Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer, R.S.M., (October 4, 1906, Crown, Pennsylvania – December 27, 1996, Erie, Pennsylvania) was a mathematician.
Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. (born August 15, 1944), mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
McClellan Heights, located in York County, Pennsylvania, United States, is a neighborhood adjacent to the city of York and is part of the campus of the York College of Pennsylvania.
Frequently confused with the Muhlenberg Brothers, an architecture/engineering firm also operating in Reading, Pennsylvania during the first half of the 20th century, Muhlenberg Greene Architects was never affiliated with Muhlenberg Brothers’ firm, although Frederick Muhlenberg does have familial ties with the Brothers.
The following year, Olympic entered the machining business by purchasing the assets of JNT Machining and opening a new facility in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Coal and Iron Police - a private police force established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly but employed and paid by the various coal companies.
Green Hills Farm, the Bucks County, Pennsylvania location where Pearl S. Buck lived for 40 years
Many of Allegheny County's southern suburbs of Pittsburgh are located in the district, which range from traditional wealth areas such as Mount Lebanon and Upper St. Clair, middle class communities such as Bethel Park, Brentwood & Scott Township, and working class labor towns such as Elizabeth.
In 1910, at the age of 20, Holden won the National Intercollegiate title for Yale, defeating R. Thayer of Pennsylvania in the first round, Cullen Thomas of Princeton in the second, S. F. Raleigh of Princeton in semis and Arthur Sweetser of Harvard in the final.
On December 2, 2010, Judge Dow ruled against five states (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, and Wisconsin), stating that five Chicago-area shipping locks will stay open despite the risk that Lake Michigan Asian carp pose to the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, saying not enough evidence was presented that indicated the danger was truly imminent.
When the U.S. Air Force closed down its maintenance depots at the former Brookley AFB in Mobile, Alabama and the former Olmsted AFB in Middleton Township, Pennsylvania, Robins AFB assumed the workload of these depots.
Born in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, Rowan starred at Beaver Falls (Pennsylvania) High School, averaging nearly 26 points per game as a senior.
Following the initial work in the Cardiopulmonary Sciences laboratory, Beckett began to apply endoscopy in concert with radiography on the Max Uhle collection of mummies from Pachacamac Peru at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He then commanded the Fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and proceeded to New Creek, West Virginia, in July 1863.
Samuel Anderson Purviance (1809 – 1882), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
Currently, 112 schools in seven states are participating across the United States in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut.
In 2009, the 8th grade was ranked 34th out of 141 western Pennsylvania middle schools based on three years of student academic achievement in PSSAs in: reading, math writing and one year of science.
In 2008, Symyx sold non-RTECS portions of the occupational health and safety (OHS) component of the MDL business to ChemAdvisor, Inc., of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue is an American 1996 television film directed by Robert Ellis Miller.
The bridging sequences show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania).
Tom McMahon, American politician and former mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania
Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
US 522 passes through the Ridge and Valley Province of the Appalachian Mountains of central Pennsylvania, connecting Hancock, Maryland on the Potomac River with McConnellsburg, Mount Union, Lewistown, Middleburg, and Selinsgrove on the Susquehanna River.
The early settlers of the area were from New England, New York or Pennsylvania and West Concord, and well as Concord Township which surrounds it, were named after Concord, New Hampshire.
WHUN-FM, a radio station (106.3 FM) licensed to serve Mount Union, Pennsylvania
At one point, Constitutional Convention delegate James Wilson and Pennsylvania Chief Justice Thomas McKean disputed one of Findley's statements about jury trials in Sweden; Findley returned two days later with William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England and demonstrated that his reference had been correct.