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Widener University. / 39.8607; -75.3551. Widener University is a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. The university has three other campuses: two in Pennsylvania ( Harrisburg and Exton) and one in Wilmington, Delaware . Founded as The Bullock School for Boys in 1821, the school was established in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Chemistry Building is adjacent to Old Main and is a three-story building that measures 37 feet by 51 feet. It is connected to Old Main by a wrought iron and plank-board walk-way extending from the second floor of each structure. It was built in order to separate dangerous laboratory conditions from the dormitory area of the Old Main building.
Bill Zwaan Sr. (born November 9, 1954) in an American former college football and college baseball coach. He served as the head football coach at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania from 1997 to 2002 and West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2023, compiling a career college football head coaching record of 217–90.
The population of Chester was 32,605 at the 2020 census. [3] Incorporated in 1682, Chester is the oldest city in Pennsylvania [6] and was the location of William Penn 's first arrival in the Province of Pennsylvania. It was the county seat for Chester County from 1682 to 1788 and of Delaware County from 1789 to 1851.
The Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg was founded in 1989, as an expansion of Widener University's existing law school in Wilmington, Delaware. Anthony J. Santoro, who served as Dean of law from 1983 to 1992, felt that there was a need for legal education in Harrisburg, the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [6]
The Widener family is an American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . Founded by Peter Arrell Browne Widener (1834–1915) and his wife, Hannah Josephine Dunton (1836–1896), it was once one of the wealthiest families in the United States. Widener was ranked #29 on the American Heritage list of the forty richest Americans in history, with ...
Peter Arrell Browne Widener (November 13, 1834 – November 6, 1915) was an American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] Widener was ranked #29 on the American Heritage list of the forty richest Americans in history, with a net worth at death of $23 billion to $25 billion (in 1998 ...
Widener University Law School was founded in 1971 as the Delaware Law School and became affiliated with Widener in 1975. In 1989, it was known as Widener University School of Law when it was combined with the campus in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 2015, the two campuses separated, with the Harrisburg one renamed to Widener University ...