This box contains information about the following students.
Zadoc Aydelotte, Delaware Military Academy/PMC, Class of 1859 (?)
-Died leading his men through battle during Civil War
Samuel Bancroft, Jr, Samuel Alsop School (1854-1856)
-Attended Samuel Alsop School
-Elected to House of Representatives 1866
-Partner and later president of Joseph Bancroft & Sons Cotton Mills
-The Bancroft Collection in Delaware Art Museum: Samuel Bancroft’s collection of Pre-Raphaelite art
William Poole Bancroft, Samuel Alsop School (1854-1856)
-Attended Samuel Alsop School
-Partner of Joseph Bancroft & Sons
-Established Woodlawn Company
-Worked extensively with park systems in Wilmington, Bancroft Parkway
Benjamin Berry, Class of 1902
-Earned Distinguished Service Cross in 1918
Orlando Bogart, class of 1872. Potograph of him as a cadet, and obituary from 1932 copy of New York Times.
David J. “Chip” Brightbill, Attended PMC 1960-1962
-From the 48th Senatorial District. Member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
William Harry Brown (W. H. Brown), PMC, Class of 1875
-W. H. Brown & Sons of Pittsburgh, largest shippers of coal on Ohio and Mississippi Rivers
-W. Harry Brown Home for Boys Est. 1921
-Racing horse stables inherited from Father Samuel Brown
Tony Caia, PMC 1950
-Running back for PMC, won All-American Honors and the Maxwell Award
-Became an area football coach for Ridley High School, and other teams
Albert Carrozza, Class of 1960
-On the PMC wrestling, track, and football teams
R. Kelso Carter, Class of 1867
-Began teaching at PMC in 1869 on and off until 1887
-Wrote for the ‘Holiness’ movement in the Methodist church – including gospel hymn “Standing on the Promises” 1886, also became a preacher
Juan Chacon, PMC Class of 1932
-Student from Colombia
Edmund Cook, PMC Class of 1906?
-First PMC casualty of World War I.
D’Ignazio, Babe, Class of 1942
-Owner of Towne House Restaurant in Media
-Flew off course in a four-engine B-24 Liberator down State Street in 1944 while flying to an airfield in Washington
Roy Eaton, Class of 1969
-Wrote book Soldier Boy and also "The Chosen Few"
-includes copy of each of these books
George W. Ehler, PMC Class of 1885
-Organized Physical Education Recreation and Play Activities in New York, Chicago, and Cleveland
-Director of Physical Education and Intercollegiate Athletics, University of Wisconsin, 1910-1916
Gil Fagiani, Class of 1967
-Author, including book of poetry Rooks about his first year at PMC
Henry Manning Fish, Class of 1883
-One of the foremost eye specialists in the country
-prominent in Sons of Colonial Wars and Sons of American Revolution
John Lance Geoghegan, Class of 1963
-The cadet who presented General Eisenhower with a PMC cadet saber and invested him with the title Honorary First Captain
-Died in Vietnam during battle of LZ X-Ray in Ia Drang Valley in 1965, awarded bronze star posthumously – this battle is described in the book We Were Soldiers Once...And Young by Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway. The book was turned into the movie “We Were Soldiers Once”, starring Mel Gibson.
Ginsburg, Class of 1969
-Founder and president of Contrast Sensitivity, which did vision research
Desales Glover, Came to PMC 1945
-Served underage as a gunner on a plane in WWII (enlisted at 14 and was discovered to be underage at 16)
Raymond Waite Hardenbergh, Class of 1898
-Served in Spanish-American war and WWI
-Eventual owner of Rags the “Dog Hero of WWI”
Charles Edgar Hires, Class of 1934
-From Hires family of Hires Root Beer
Louis Horner, Class of 1962
-One of first African-Americans to play varsity sports at PMC, 1958-62
Albert Huntt, Class of 1891
-Prominent architect in the South
-President of the Virginia State Architectural Society