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Jeptha Wade
1811–1890American entrepreneur, daguerreotypist and portrait painter
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Famous people · Romulus
Romulus is the birthplace of 3 famous people
Best known of all is Jeptha Wade, written about in 5 languages. Behind the leader come George Gibson and Tug Arundel. Thomas Lounsbury leads the 6 names listed next door in Ovid. Per head, the list is long: 9.6 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in New York has 3.9.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Jeptha Wade
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1811
Jeptha Wade
Youngest
1905
George Gibson
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Romulus
Two of the three are athletes.
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What Romulus is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
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The best known from each town bordering Romulus.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Romulus and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (7)
- Jeptha Wade: Engraving by J. C. Buttre, after photo by Mathew Brady, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Gibson: Godfrey Lundberg, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tug Arundel: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Lounsbury: George Collins Cox, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Levi W. Barden: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Suessa Baldridge Blaine: Photographer not named., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lemuel Milk: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons