He was from an old Philadelphia family, his father and grandfather being local elders and church builders.

Mrs. Solomon was a member of a prominent Philadelphia family.

Willing was born to an affluent Philadelphia family.

It's not that the old Philadelphia families, with their estate gardeners, don't still enter gems.

He was from a prominent Philadelphia family of Cornish descent.

His parents, were both from prominent Philadelphia families.

"I don't care what people say ought to be," said Jones, from a Philadelphia family of nine.

But then he was, as everyone including himself said, well-bred, the heir to a well-to-do Philadelphia family.

But commissions began to flow from leading Philadelphia families.

Both her parents were descendants of old-moneyed Philadelphia families.