Source: The ancestry of Edward Brinton Temple in "Colonial & Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania" "EDWARD BRINTON TEMPLE, son of Charles and Philena (Marshall) Temple, was born August 28, 1871 in Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and died March 12, 1949. He received his early education in private schools at Concordville. He received his early education in private schools at Concordville. He then entered Swarthmore College, from which institution he was graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1891. The Doctor's degree in engineering was bestowed upon him in 1923. While at college, Mr. Temple played on the football team and took an active part in track athletics. He joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Immediately after leaving college he entered the employ of the construction department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1897 he was transferred to the drafting department in the Broad Street Station, Philadel- phia and, in 1901, was made assistant engineer. In 1905 he was appointed assistant chief engineer. In 1927 he became chief engineer of the Eastern Region of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and he remained in that position until his retirement in 1939. During the first World War he was engineering assistant of the United States Railroad Administration. From 1918 to 1920, during government control of the railroads, Mr. Temple served as engineering assistant of the Allegheny region. He was the representative of the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company on the Commmittee of Railroad Engineers, studying the proposed development of the Port of New York. He developed the imporant terminal plans for the company, at Philadelphia and at many other cities on the lines of this railroad. "After his retirement from the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at the end of forty-eight years of service, Mr. Temple divided his time between the Swarth- more National Bank and Trust Company and Swarthmore College. Formed in 1904, the Swarthmore Bank had had but one president before Edward B. Temple took that position. He held it for thirty-eight years, which gave him the record for length of presidential tenure among basnkers in Pennsylvania up till that time. While carrying his railroad and banking duties, Mr. Temple served from 1919 on as a member of the board of directors of Swarthmore College. He became treasurer of the college in 1940, after he had retired from his railroad duties. In addition, he was appointed to the Art Commission by Governor Sproul and re-appointed by Governor Pinchot. "Edward B. Temple was a member of the Union League of Philadelphia and the Engineers Club of the same city. He was vice president of the latter from 1923 to 1925. He was connected with the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Railway Engineering Association, the American Civic Association and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Society of Friends. "Mr. Temple married (first), at Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1895, Lucy Taylor Bartram. He married (second), at Moylan, Pennsylvania, January 1, 1925, Charlotte Evelyn Smith."