Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Notable people == [[File:George Keyports Brady.jpg|right|thumb|70px|Brady]] [[Image:Martin Robison Delany (before 1885).jpg|right|thumb|70px|Delany]] [[File:Gwen Ifill by Gage Skidmore.jpg|right|thumb|70px|Ifill]] * [[Betty Andujar]], Texas politician * [[D. Dudley Bloom]], [[United States Navy]] officer and American businessman * [[George K. Brady]], [[United States Army]] officer. Briefly [[Governors of Alaska#Commanders of the Department of Alaska|commander of the Department of Alaska]]. * [[Ike Brookens]], MLB player in 1975 with the [[Detroit Tigers]]. * [[Tom Brookens]], MLB player from 1979 to 1990, played third-base for the 1984 World Series Champion [[Detroit Tigers]] * [[Margaret Corbin]], Revolutionary War soldier known as "Captain Molly", although sometimes confused with Philadelphia's "[[Molly Pitcher]]" * [[Martin Delany]], Abolitionist publisher who in 1865 became the first African-American field officer in the U.S. Army, was educated in Chambersburg in the 1830s. * [[Gus Dorner]] Major League Baseball pitcher (1902β1909). * [[Ludwig Denig]], folk artist and apothecary<ref name="Wertkin2004">{{cite book|author=Gerard C. Wertkin|title=Encyclopedia of American Folk Art|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780415929868|url-access=registration|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-95614-1}}</ref> * [[Henry Burchard Fine]] (1858β1928) was a [[Dean (education)|dean]] at [[Princeton University]] and [[mathematician]]. * [[Steven Fogarty]], professional ice hockey player drafted by the [[New York Rangers]] in the third round of the [[2011 NHL Entry Draft]]. * [[Patrick Gass]] (1771β1870), the last surviving member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was born just outside Chambersburg (Falling Spring). * [[Kenton Harper]], Virginia newspaper editor and Confederate army general during the Civil War, born and raised in Chambersburg * [[John Grier Hibben]], later President of [[Princeton University]], served as pastor of Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, 1888β1891. * [[Stephen D. Houston]], a renowned [[Mayanist]] scholar, epigrapher, and anthropologist was born in Chambersburg in 1958. * [[John Hughes (archbishop of New York)|John Hughes]], archbishop of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York]] lived in Chambersburg between 1817 and 1819 before going on to [[Mount St. Mary's University]]. His family is buried at the Corpus Christi Church Cemetery in Chambersburg. * [[Gwen Ifill]] (1955β2016) Journalist and author spent a portion of her childhood in Chambersburg while her father was pastor at St. James A.M.E. Church. * [[Lil Skies]], Hip Hop artist, born in Chambersburg on August 4, 1998 * [[Alexander McClure]], editor of the ''Franklin Repository'' from 1852 to 1864 * [[Bob Moorhead]] , was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the [[New York Mets]] * [[Mike Mowrey]], was an American professional baseball third baseman who played in the Major Leagues for Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers. * [[John Putch]], actor, filmmaker, son of [[Jean Stapleton]] * [[David Fullerton Robison]], a U.S. Representative, who in 1859 died of [[National Hotel disease]], was born here * [[The Shackeltons]], Post-Punk band formed in 2004 * [[Jean Gurney Fine Spahr]] (1861β1935), social reformer * [[Mitchell Stahl]], professional indoor volleyball player and Olympian. * [[Jean Stapleton]], stage/television/film actress best known for playing Edith Bunker on ''[[All in the Family]]'' * [[Abraham Stouffer]], settler, miller and founder of [[Stouffville, Ontario]], [[Canada]] * [[Frank Thomson (railroad executive)|Frank Thomson]], sixth president of the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] * [[Zelda Wynn Valdes]], fashion designer and credited by some to be the creator of the original [[Playboy Bunny]] costume. Born in Chambersburg as Zelda Christian Barbour but grew up in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]. * [[Joseph Winters]] an African-American inventor and abolitionist, moved to Chambersburg in 1830 Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page