Plaque in borough honors heroine
Associated Press
AMBLER, Pa.
A Quaker widow who rushed to the scene of a train wreck and was credited with saving countless lives more than a century and a half ago is being honored by the suburban Philadelphia borough that bears her name.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says Sunday’s event in Ambler also will dedicate the newly refurbished Ambler station on the Lansdale/Doylestown Regional Rail line.
The July 1856 train crash known as the Camp Hill wreck took the lives of 59 people, many of them children from a Philadelphia church group heading to a picnic at Fort Washington.
Within minutes of the crash, Mary Johnson Ambler appeared with bandages and other medical supplies to tend to the injured.
The nearby train station was named for her in 1869. The borough followed suit in 1888.