King's College Hosts Carnegie Heroes Monument Dedication

King’s College and the Anthracite Heritage Foundation dedicated the Carnegie Heroes Monument on June 27, 2026, honoring 40 recipients of the Carnegie Medal whose extraordinary acts of courage occurred within Northeastern Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry.

The ceremony featured remarks from King’s College Rev. Thomas P. Looney, C.S.C., Ph.D., president of King’s College; State Representative Eddie Day Pashinski of the 121st district; Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown; Jewels Phraner, Carnegie Hero Fund Commission; Thomas Lowther Brown, great-grandson of John Tennant Brown, Carnegie Medal recipient; Robert P. Wolensky, Ph.D., Anthracite Heritage Foundation and professor of sociology and history; Thomas Mackaman, Ph.D., professor of history; and members of the Anthracite Heritage Foundation.

Located in Miners Park, outside the Richard Abbas Alley Center for Health Sciences, the marble monument serves as a lasting tribute to the bravery and selflessness of the region's anthracite-mining heroes.

Carnegie Anthracite Medalists:

William Watkins 1904

Benjamin J. George 1907

Thomas Huntley 1907

George R. Jopling 1907

Patrick F. Walsh 1097

John Merrick 1907

John T. Brown 1911

Jacob Modla 1911

Jame L. Conlon 1911

Andrew Devers 1911

Andrew J. Horan 1911

Martin F. Mangan 1911

Michael J. Madden 1911

Thomas F. Gallagher 1911

Daniel Thomas 1916

John Harry 1917

Edward F. Norton 1917

Michael J. Franklin 1917

Patrick J. Gallagher 1917

David A. Cadwalader 1917

James M. Flanigan 1919

Warren A. Hoy 1921

Peter G. Rumpf 1921

Frank Carter 1921

Joseph P. Riley 1924

Robert Hughes 1932

Joseph P. Tigue 1932

Theodore Bonawitz 1942

John Kuchinski 1943

Henry R. Skibitski 1943

Edward E. Carey 1946

Raymond J. Eye 1949

William J. Kelly Sr. 1949

Walter Leggins 1950

Henry W. Eckley Sr. 1951

Amedeo Pancotti 1959

Frank J. Di Andriole 1964

William Paul Holena 1964

Clair S. Sigworth 1964