william penn

     

"The Father of Pennsylvania"

Trivia about william penn

  • After a 15-year stay in England, this proprietor of Pennsylvania returned to his colony in 1699
  • Known as "the Father of Pennsylvania", he also fathered 8 children
  • 14 years before coming to America, this Quaker was imprisoned in the Tower of London for his beliefs
  • This Quaker received a tract of land west of the Delaware River as repayment of a debt owed to his dad by Charles II
  • In 1698, after an absence of 15 years, he returned to the colony named for his father
  • His statue is atop Philadelphia's City Hall
  • Besides founding Pennsylvania, he found time to father more than 10 children
  • Until the 1980s no building in Philly rose higher than the statue of this man that tops City Hall
  • In 1666 this Quaker who founded an American colony went to Ireland to manage his father's estates
  • 1644-1718:"Quaking Billy"
  • In the 1670s, this Quaker preached in Germany, & many of his listeners later came to his American colony
  • This Quaker's "Treaty with the Indians" was the subject of a famous painting by Benjamin West
  • The university named for this Quaker leader is in Oskaloosa, Iowa, not Altoona or Monongahela