Historic Pennsylvania People

People in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, 1938.

People in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, 1938.

Benjamin Franklin, by Tompkins Harrison Matteson

Benjamin Franklin, by Tompkins Harrison Matteson

John David Albert – Frontiersman

Cyrus Alexander – Trapper and California Pioneer

Daniel Boone – The Kentucky Pioneer

Mary Ann Shadd Cary – Activist, Teacher, & Writer

Francois Auguste Chardon – Soldier and Fur Trader

Alexander Culbertson – Fur Trader and Diplomat

Joseph Dickson – First Known Mountain Man

The Treachery of Mike Fink

Benjamin Franklin – The First American

Robert Fulton and the Steamboat

William Henry Harrison – The Hero of Tippecanoe

Andrew Henry – Fur Trader

Charles Keemle – Journalist & Fur Trader

Jedediah Smith – Blazing the Rockies

General Anthony Wayne

General Anthony Wayne

General Anthony Wayne – Brave Officer of the American Revolution

© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated January 2023.

Also See:

American History

Historic People Photo Galleries

Massachusetts – The Bay State

Who’s Who in American History