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Mary Johnson Ambler (March 24, 1805 – August 18, 1868) was an American humanitarian and fuller who helped organize the rescue of survivors of the Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Pennsylvania. The borough of Ambler was named in her honor.
Mary Ambler (1805–1868) Mary Ambler homestead, Ambler, Pennsylvania. Mary Ambler, a middle-aged Quaker woman who resided near the Wissahickon station, quickly gathered first-aid materials and covered the two-mile distance between her home and the disaster site on foot. The service she rendered in caring for the injured was so conspicuous that ...
Mary Ambler, who turned her Ambler home into an impromptu hospital following the Great Train Wreck of 1856. In 1855, Wissahickon station became a stop on the North Pennsylvania Railroad line. [10]: 7 On July 17, 1856, the town was the site of a disastrous train accident, known as the Great Train Wreck of 1856.
Lindenwold Castle, also known as the Mattison Estate, is the former personal estate in Ambler, Pennsylvania, United States of asbestos magnate Richard Van Zeelust Mattison (1851–1935) of the Keasbey and Mattison Company. [1] [2] [3] It was designed by Milton Bean [4] [5] and built in 1890. [2]
Mary Ambler (1805–1868) [1]; Marian Anderson (1897–1993) [2] / [1]; Nellie Bly (1864–1922) [1]; Pearl S. Buck [2]; Rachel Carson (1907–1964) [2] [1]; Margaret ...
Mary Cary Ambler (1732 – May 1781) was an early American diarist. Her 1770 diary provides an early account of smallpox inoculation in colonial America. [1] [2] [3]Mary Cary was the daughter of Colonel Wilson Cary (1702-1772), owner of the plantation Ceelys on the James in Elizabeth City County, Virginia, and his wife Sarah (1710-1783).
Mary McGee, the pioneering motorsports champion who was the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Motorcycle Mary," has died at the age of 87. Her family confirmed her death Wednesday in ...
Stribling was born in Markham, Virginia to his parents, Dr. Robert Mackey Stribling and Caroline Clarkson. Stribling received training as a doctor and completed medical degrees at the University of Virginia and University of Pennsylvania in 1854, and 1856, respectively, practicing medicine briefly before the outbreak of the Civil War.