Thomas Clyde (businessman)
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Thomas Clyde was a ship-owner, founder of the Clyde Steamship Company, and a civil and marine engineer who built the first commercial screw steamer in America.
Thomas Clyde tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia
Laurel Hill Cemetery
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Laurel Hill Cemetery, also called Laurel Hill East to distinguish it from the affiliated West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, is a historic rural cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philad
Thomas Clyde (businessman)
…into the 20th. The company was sold to Charles W. Morse in 1906. He was married to Rebecca Pancoast. He died on January 12, 1885, and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia…
Laurel Hill Cemetery Gatehouse in 1972
The Yellow Fever Memorial was built in 1855 to honor Philadelphia's "Doctors, Druggists and Nurses" who helped fight the epidemic in Portsmouth, Virginia
The cemetery was designed by John Notman with strings of terraces that descend to the Schuylkill River
"The Silent Sentry" was stolen from Mount Moriah Cemetery in 1970 but was recovered and rededicated in Laurel Hill in 2013.