Thomas Kelso was an Irish-American philanthropist and businessman, who was born in Clones, a market town in the north of Ireland, August 28, 1784. He died on the morning of July 26, 1878 at his home o
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad was an American railroad, headquartered in Philadelphia, that operated in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland from 1836 to 1902. It merged with thr
Thomas Kelso
…Streets. One of the most prominent and influential citizens of his adopted home city in the 19th Century. During his career, he was a director in the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad for 37 years, which built its southern terminus in 1849–1850, east of the harbor "basin" (today's modern "Inner Harbor") at President and Fleet Streets…
President Street Station in Baltimore, built between 1849 and 1850; a portion of the station is still standing and is home to the Baltimore Civil War Museum.
A Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad freight shed, now a Sprouts Farmers Market, on Carpenter Street between Broad and 15th Streets in Philadelphia, named to the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 2011)