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Philadelphia area:
Drexel (endowed a university, also a famous Saint)
Biddle (famous society, banking family)
Strawbridge (department store)
Dupont (founded chemical company)
Baltimore:
Warfield (married Prince Edward)
PRATT (the library system, the city's main street, and a hospital are all named for him)
Hopkins (world-famous hospital, the #1 employer in the city)
Cardin (political family)
Meyerhoff (endowed concert hall)
Washington DC:
Hechinger (chain of hardware stores, Chairman of city council, developed an inner-city shopping center)
Cafritz (builder/ developer, endowed a hospital)
Syphax, Cobbs, Drew, Quander (prominent Black families)
Cooke, Pollin (sports team owners/ stadium developers)
More re Philadelphia:
Girard(banking)
Wanamaker(department store)
Widener and Elkins(rapid transit)
^Aside from John Harvard not many of these people have things named after them aside from their own companies/institutions.....
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