Mark E. Dixon, Author at Main Line Today

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West Chester's favorite son was one of the lucky ones.

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Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee went on to serve as the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences’ curator of birds for nearly 50 years.

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William C. Colepaugh was once wanted by the FBI for being a Nazi agent.

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Joseph Selligman disappeared from campus in 1936 to fight growing fascist forces in Europe.

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John Braxton opposed the Vietnam War, so in 1967 he set sail with a group of Quakers to deliver medical supplies to the Vietnamese.

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Once rejected by critics, the Colwyn native’s paintings now sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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The bad-boy battalion was one of the unruliest during the Revolutionary War.

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After failing to graduate college, Richard Harding Davis went on to become one of the nation’s most influential journalists

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Early Chester County settlers did not treat the Native American figure as nicely as local legend recalls.

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The area proved almost as unfriendly as Frank Rizzo-controlled Philadelphia.

Mark E. Dixon