States president Nicholas Biddle (1750–1778), Continental Navy original captain Richard Biddle (1796–1847), former U.S. House of Representatives member John C. Bowers (1811–1873), former entrepreneur, organist, and vestryman, and founding member of first Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Thomas Bowers (c. 1823–1885), former concert artist Ed Bradley (1941–2006), former CBS News radio journalist and television journalist Henry "Box" Brown (c.1815–1897), abolitionist who escaped to freedom by arranging to have himself mailed in crate to abolitionists in Philadelphia William C. Bullitt, Jr. (1891–1967), former diplomat who conducted special mission to negotiate with Vladimir Lenin on behalf of the Paris Peace Conference and first U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union and U.S. ambassador to France during World War II. Bebe Moore Campbell (1950–2006), former author, journalist, and teacher Samuel Carpenter (1649–1714), first Pennsylvania Treasurer and deputy governor to William Penn Octavius Valentine Catto (1839–1871), former educator, civil rights activist, and baseball player Emilie Davis (1839–1889), former writer who kept American Civil War diary Emma V. Day (1853–1895), former missionary to Liberia Marguerite de Angeli (1889–1987), former author and illustrator Branson DeCou (1892-1941), photographer and traveler Harriet Schneider French (1824–1906), former physician and temperance movement activist Henry George (1839–1897), former political economist and author, inspired economic philosophy known as Georgism T. Adelaide Goodno (1858-1931), social reformer Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914), former abolitionist, poet, and educator Benjamin Guggenheim (1865–1912), former businessman who died aboard the RMS Titanic Thomas Hall (1834-1911), former inventor, mechanic, patent attorney. Invented the first portable typewriter. John von Sonnentag de Havilland (1826–1886), former American officer of arms in England A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1928–1998), former Kerner Commission commissioner, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit judge, and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient John A. Hostetler (1918–2001), former author, educator, and Amish and Hutterite scholar Rebecca Jones (1739-1818), former Quaker minister and educator Grace Kelly (1929–1982), former princess of Monaco and actress George Lippard (1822–1854), former novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, and labor organizer Alain LeRoy Locke (1885–1954), former writer, Harlem Renaissance figure, and first African American Rhodes Scholar Henry C. McCook (1837–1911), former entomologist, clergyman, author, and Philadelphia city flag designer Joseph McKenna (1843–1926), former U.S. Supreme Court associate justice, U.S. Attorney General, and U.S. House of Representatives member Thomas Mifflin (1744–1800), Continental Army major general, fifth president of U.S. Congress, first Pennsylvania governor, and Founding Father Anna Balmer Myers (1884–1972), former author Robert N. C. Nix Jr. (1928–2003), former