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Milton Jerrold Shapp (born Milton Jerrold Shapiro; June 25, 1912 – November 24, 1994) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 40th governor of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979 and the first Jewish governor of Pennsylvania.
Shapiro was born on June 20, 1973, in Kansas City, Missouri. [7] He spent a few years of his childhood on a U.S. Navy base where his father, Steven Shapiro, served as a medical officer, [8] before the family moved to Dresher, Pennsylvania, a community in Upper Dublin Township in Montgomery County. [9]
The Milton S. Hershey Mansion, also known as High Point, is a historic house at 100 Mansion Road East in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Built in 1908, it was the home of Hershey Chocolate founder Milton S. Hershey (1857-1945) from 1908 until his death. [ 3 ]
Lewis focused on local issues and greatly undercut Shapp in rural areas; despite lagging at the polls in traditional Democratic strongholds such as Pittsburgh and Scranton, Shapp preserved a moderate victory by winning the combined vote of suburban Philadelphia, an unexpected accomplishment for a Democrat at the time.
Thomas Milton Street Sr. (April 25, 1939 – November 28, 2022) was an American businessman, a Pennsylvania state senator from Philadelphia, and the brother of former Philadelphia mayor John F. Street. Originally a street hot dog vendor, he rose to prominence as an activist challenging the city's vending and housing ordinances.
The first camp meetings were held at Central Oak Heights in the summer of 1909. As many as 6,000 people came to the hilltop for these meetings. They arrived from the train stations in Milton and West Milton or if they lived close by they came on their horse-drawn wagons and carriages.
Milton Clark Avery (/ ˈ eɪ v ə r i /; March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965 [1]) was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York , he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City.
Pennsylvania Route 405 (PA 405) is a 35.124-mile-long (56.527 km) state highway that runs in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The southern terminus is an intersection with PA 61 in Sunbury.