CHESTER, - Delaware County PA History

CHESTER,
PENNSYLVANIA.
SAMUEL GREENWOOD, ESQ.,
President of Select Council, whose portrait adol'lls these pages,
is known as one of our live men, and has been interested in the
city's progress for many years. He was born on a bright
Sunday, the 5th of September, 1841, about four o'clock in the
afternoon, in the city of Oldham, England, and is now in his
48th year. In September, 1848, his parents came to this country,
and took up their residence in Delaware County. In 1852
they removed to Chester, and at the age of eleven years the
subject of this sketch began life as a Chester boy. In
1862-63-64 he had saved some means, and with all the
resources that he could muster he attended Fort Edward
Institute, at Fort Edward, New York, and carried off the first
prize for oratory and composition. In 1864 he was offered the
principalship of the High School at Valatia, and taught three
years, when he received a very flattering offer to travel for a
house in New YOI'k City, which posit~on he filled until 1876,
having traveled all over this country and the Canadas many
times, thus getting an acquaintance with men and things which
seems to have fitted him for his present occupation, that of
real estate agent and builder. In 1876 he was elected to
Council, and served in that body, with one year's exception,
until the creation of Select Council, in 1888, when he was made
its first President, which position he now holds. He is also
Chairman of the Real Estate Committee of the Board of
Trade, and to hinl is accredited the scheme of planning, preparing,
and pushing the public building bill for a post office
in Chester, which we hope to see passed by 'the present
Congress. Mr. Greenwood is an entirely self-made man
-pleasant, agreeable, a good entertainer, and one of our
representative mcn.
JOliN LILLEY, JR., ESQ.,
President of Common Council, was born ncar Coatesville,
Chestel' County, Pa., in 1844, and came with his parents to
Delaware County in 1850, and to Chestel' in 1856, where he
has since resided. In 1862 he enlisted in the civil war, in
Company H, Fourth U. S. Artillery, serving three ycars in the
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