The Philadelphia Corinthian Yacht Club or sometimes Corinthian Yacht Club of Philadelphia is a yacht club

Yacht club

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 near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

. Its clubhouse and dock are located at 300 W. 2nd Street in Essington, Pennsylvania.

History

The club was established on January 12, 1892, by 13 former members of the Philadelphia Yacht Club who split off to establish their own organization.

Among its commodores was Edward Walter Clark, Jr.

Edward Walter Clark, Jr.

Edward Walter Clark, Jr. was commodore of the Philadelphia Corinthian Yacht Club and senior partner in the E. W. Clark & Co. investment house.-Biography:He was born in 1858 to Edward White Clark and Mary Todhunter Sill...

, who took the office around 1915.

Among its early members were Edgar T. Scott, Charles Longstreth, Samuel Kent (yachting), Ernest du Pont, Walter H. Lippincott, Ralph Earle

Ralph Earle

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, Arthur Pew, E. R. Fenimore Johnson, John Wanamaker

John Wanamaker

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, John Thompson Dorrance, Cyrus B. Curtis, A. Atwater Kent, Jr., Fitz Eugene Dixon, and E. Paul du Pont

E. Paul du Pont

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