{"id":310104,"date":"2026-10-19T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310104\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T21:30:07","slug":"largely-forgotten-founding-father-honored-in-philadelphias-washington-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310104\/","title":{"rendered":"Largely forgotten founding father honored in Philadelphia\u2019s Washington Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 An unsung hero of the American Revolution got his due on Monday in a special ceremony in Washington Square. <\/p>\n<p>Several dozen people gathered at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the Revolution to honor <a href=\"https:\/\/haymsalomon250.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Haym Salomon<\/a>. The Jewish businessman emigrated to the colonies shortly before the Declaration of Independence was signed and helped finance the Revolutionary War and the new nation.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Lazin of the Equality Forum said Salomon\u2019s faith in the new government was never rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalomon died as a pauper, leaving a wife and four children penniless,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was buried without a marker, several blocks from here, in the Mikveh Israel cemetery.\u201d His grave was unmarked for years before his grandson purchased a headstone.<\/p>\n<p>As a Jew, Salomon never even got the right to vote, and he is largely forgotten by history. Lazin said he felt it was important to honor him in this semiquincentennial year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nation was founded in diversity, and its strength has always been in diversity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 An unsung hero of the American Revolution got his due on Monday in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12360,69,71,70,126899,102235],"class_list":["post-310104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-american-revolution","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier","tag-washington-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}