John Frederick Steinman, Ph. B., LL. D.

August 21, 1884 - December 23, 1980

Graduate of the Yeates School, the Hotchkiss School, and Yale University

Publisher and chairman of the board of Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.

Chairman of the board, Intelligencer Printing Company

Co-founder of WGAL, Inc., and WGAL Television, Inc.

Trustee, Lancaster General Hospital

Through the John Frederick Steinman Foundation, benefactor of

Franklin and Marshall College

Lancaster County Association for the Blind

Lancaster Country Day School

Young Women's Christian Association, Elizabethtown College

St. Joseph's Hospital, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital

Young Men's Christian Association

Mental Health Association in Lancaster County

Fulton Opera House Foundation, Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic

Marker can be reached from W. King Street, on the right when traveling east.

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