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==Notable people== * [[Brian Balthazar]], (born Brian Balthaser) television personality (born in Honesdale). * [[John J. Boyle (Public Printer)|John J. Boyle]] (1919-2003), 19th [[Public Printer of the United States]] (born in Honesdale)<ref>John J. Boyle, letter to [[Howard W. Cannon]], ''reprinted in''' {{cite book |author1=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration |title=Nomination of John J. Boyle to be Public Printer: Hearings Before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, October 19 and 26, 1977 |date=1977 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |page=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWnQAAAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> * [[Emma May Buckingham]] (1836-1919), writer, educator, and published author who lived and taught in Honesdale. * [[Florence Goodenough]], born 1886, psychology pioneer in area of intelligence<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brice|first1=Nakeyva|title=Psyography: Florence L. Goodenough|url=http://faculty.frostburg.edu/mbradley/psyography/florencegoodenough.html|publisher=Psyography: Florence L. Goodenough|access-date=14 February 2016|quote=Florence L. Goodenough was born on August 6th, 1886 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055207/http://faculty.frostburg.edu/mbradley/psyography/florencegoodenough.html|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref> (born in Honesdale). * [[Mary Dimmick Harrison]] (1858-1948), second wife of President [[Benjamin Harrison]] * [[Edgar Jadwin]] (1865-1931), former [[Chief of Engineers]], [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] * [[Frederick W. Keator]] (1855-1924), Episcopal bishop * [[Lyman Lemnitzer]] (1899-1988), general, U.S. Army and former chairman of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]] * [[John Olver]], former member of [[U.S. House of Representatives]] representing [[Massachusetts's 1st congressional district]] * [[David M. Peterson]] (1894-1919), [[flying ace]] of [[World War I]] * [[Richard Bernhard Smith|Richard B. Smith]] (1901-1935), co-wrote the song "[[Winter Wonderland]]" in 1934; his house still stands on Church St., Honesdale * [[Disappearance of Lauren Spierer|Lauren Spierer]], who mysteriously disappeared in 2011, spent a summer at Camp Towanda and met friends who became part of her social circle at [[Indiana University]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Shawn|title=Lauren Spierer mystery: New accounts say she staggered away after night of heavy drinking, drug use|url=http://www.lohud.com/article/20120603/news02/306030045|newspaper=The Journal News|date=June 4, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|work=USA Today|title=Friends of Lauren Spierer Reflect, Take Action|date=November 10, 2011|url=http://college.usatoday.com/2011/11/10/friends-of-lauren-spierer-reflect-take-action/|access-date=January 20, 2016|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102818/http://college.usatoday.com/2011/11/10/friends-of-lauren-spierer-reflect-take-action/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Richard J. Tallman]] (1925-1972), U.S. Army Brigadier-General, killed in action in Vietnam in 1972 * [[Clarissa Tracy]] (1818β1905), botanist, taught here * [[Art Wall Jr.]] (1923-2001), professional golfer, 1959 [[Masters Tournament|Masters]] champion * [[Morris Wilkins]], inventor of heart-shaped bathtub and champagne glass bathtub * [[Q. David Bowers]], born 1938, author and [[numismatics|numismatist]] * [[Ruth McGinnis]], World Womenβs Billiard Champion in the 1930s
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