Old Philadelphians

Families

In 1963, Nathaniel Burt, a chronicler of Old Philadelphia, wrote that of Philadelphia's most notable early figures were listed in "the ancient rhyme, rather out-of-date now, called the Philadelphia Rosary," which goes: :Morris, Norris, Rush and Chew, :Drinker, Dallas, Coxe and Pugh, :Wharton, Pepper, Pennypacker, :Willing, Shippen and Markoe.

Burt's full list of prominent families (with those in the poem in italics): Annenberg, Bacon, Baer, Baird, Ballard, Baltzell, Barrymore, Barton, Bartram, Berwind, Biddle, Bingham, Binney, Biswanger, Bispham, Bok, Bond, Borie, Bradford, Brinton, Broadbent, Bromley, Brooke, Buckley, Bullitt, Burpee, Cadwalader, Cassatt, Castor, Carey Cheston, Chew, Clark, Clothier, Hadley, Coates, Converse, Cope, Coxe, Cramp, Curtis, Da Costa, Dallas, Dickinson, Disston, Dorrance, Drayton, Drexel, Drinker, Duane, Duke, Elkins, Earle, Emlen, Evans, Fisher, Foulke, Fox, Francis, Franks, Furness, Gates, Geyelin, Gowen, Gratz, Griffith, Griffitts, Griscom, Gross, Grubb, Hamilton, Hare, Harrison, Hart, Hays, Hazard, Henry, Hopkinson, Houston, Huston, Hutchinson, Ingersoll, Jayne, Jeanes, Jones, Keating, Kelly, Landreth, Lea, Lewis, Lippincott, Lloyd, Logan, Lorimer, Lovekin, Lukens, McCall, McKean, McLean, Madeira, Markoe, Matlack, Meade, Meigs, Meredith, Merrick, Middleton, Mitchell, Montgomery, Morgan, Morris, Mummert, Munson, Newbold, Newhall, Newlin, Norris, Oaks, Oakes, Packard, Patterson, Paul, Peale, Pegg, Penn, Pennypacker, Penrose, Pepper, Peterson, Pew, Platt, Potts, Powel, Price, Pugh, Rawle, Randolph, Read, Redman, Reed, Rhoads, Rittenhouse, Robbins, Roberts, Rosenbach, Rosengarten, Ross, Rush, Sands, Savage, Scattergood, Scott, Scull, Sergeant, Shelmire, Shippen, Sims, Sinkler, Smith, Stern, Stetson, Stockton, Stokes, Stotesbury, Taft, Thayer, Toland, Townsend, Van Leer, Van Pelt, Van Rensselear, Vauclain, Vaux, Wanamaker, Wetherill, Wharton, Whitaker, Widener, Willing, Wistar, Wister, Wolf, Wood, Wright, and Yarnall.

Members of these families are generally known for being fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and well educated. These families often have deeply established traditions in the Quaker and Episcopal faiths. Many Old Philadelphia families intermarried and their descendants summer in Northeast Harbor, Desert Island, Maine. Many of these families trace their ancestries back to the original founders of Philadelphia while others entered into aristocracy during the nineteenth century with their profits from commerce and trade or by marrying into established Old Philadelphia families like the Cadwaladers and Biddles and Pitcairns.

Clubs and societies

Old Philadelphia exclusive clubs and societies

• Acorn Club
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia
• Colonial Society of Pennsylvania
• Contributionship/Hand-in-Hand
• Dancing Assemblies of Philadelphia
• First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry
• Germantown Cricket Club
• Gulph Mills Golf Club
• Merion Cricket Club
• Orpheus Club
• Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
• Penllyn Club
• Philadelphia Charity Ball
• The Philadelphia Club
• Philadelphia Corinthian Yacht Club
• Philadelphia Cricket Club
• Pickering Hunt
• The Rabbit
• Racquet Club of Philadelphia
• Radnor Hunt Club
• Rittenhouse Club
• Schuylkill Fishing Company
• Society of Colonial Wars
• Sons of the Revolution
• Society of the Sons of St. George of Philadelphia
• Union League of Philadelphia
• Welcome Society of Pennsylvania
• Wistar Parties

Notes

References

• E. Digby Baltzell, Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class, Free Press, 1958 (reprinted 2004)
• E. Digby Baltzell, The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America, Random House, 1964.
• E. Digby Baltzell, The Protestant Establishment Revisited, Transaction Publishers, 1991 (reprinted 2001)
• E. Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, Beacon Press, 1979 (reprinted 2004)
• Nathaniel Burt, The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy, Little, Brown and Company, 1963 (reprinted 1999)

References

1. See generally, Baltzell, Nalle, "Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia" and "Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class."
2. See generally, Burt.
3. Ivory, Karen. (2011). "Philadelphia Icons: 50 Classic Views of the City of Brotherly Love". Rowman & Littlefield.
4. Baltzell, E. Digby. (2011). "Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class". Transaction Publishers.
5. Pronounced "MarKOO." [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA44 Burt, p. 44.]
6. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA70 Burt, p. 70-77.]
7. (1913). "Hall Family of Tacony, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania". The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine.
8. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA269 Burt, p. 269.]
9. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA19 Burt, p. 19.]
10. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA141 Burt, p. 141-51.]
11. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA95 Burt, p. 95.]
12. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA274 Burt, p. 274-77.]
13. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA305 Burt, p. 305.]
14. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA301 Burt, p. 301-08.]
15. ""The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy" (1999)".
16. [https://books.google.com/books?id=M9_S2yqcnh0C&pg=PA104 Baltzell, "The Protestant Establishment Revisited" p. 104.]
17. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA301 Burt, p. 301.]
18. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA261 Burt, p. 261-65.]
19. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA268 Burt, p. 268.]
20. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA285 Burt, p. 285-95.]
21. [https://books.google.com/books?id=L9ueb6r1uXgC&pg=PA266 Burt, p. 266-68.]