Thank you, Elaine and Helen, My father would have attended school roughly 1901-1913. His family lived very near Widener their entire lives. His father was working for PMC (now Widener) as a fireman when he died in 1932. H(arry or Henry) Weston EYRE was b: 1896 and was living w/his parents at 431 E 12th St in Chester during the 1900 census. > ... On a map (c1916), I found a school at 15th & Walnut Sts. It does >not give the name of the school but I think it is Wetherill. This is >the school closest to 431 E. 12th St., Chester, Delaware Co., PA ... > ... The school at 15th & Walnut Streets was Martin Elementary School [no longer >exists - it was on land now belonging to Widener University.] > >As to which school was the closest to 431 E. 12th Street. What time frame >are we looking for? So many schools have closed over the years. There was a >Jeffries Elementary School near Morton Avenue and Melrose, but it was >displaced by the construction of Route 95. Jeffries was the school attended >by those who lived below the B & O Railroad tracks. The tracks are located >between 12th and 13th Streets. Martin School was attended by those living >above the tracks. > >Wetherill Elementary School was on E. 24th Street, near Upland Street. >My husband, attended kindergarten at Wetherill, and elementary school at >Martin. He attended Smedley Junior High School, on Upland Avenue between >16th and 18th Streets, and graduated from old Chester High School in 1950 >the original building was located on the block bounded by 8th and 9th >Streets and Fulton and Barclay.]