A02868
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
847
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY MENSCH, BARTOLOTTA, STEFANO AND COMITTA,
AUGUST 27, 2021
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, AUGUST 27, 2021
AN ACT
Designating the portion of State Route 2004, also known as North
Broad Street, within the Borough of Lansdale and Hatfield
Township, Montgomery County, as the Dr. Frank Erdman Boston
Memorial Highway.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Dr. Frank Erdman Boston Memorial Highway.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds as follows:
(1) Frank Erdman Boston was born March 10, 1891, in
Philadelphia and later attended Lincoln University,
originally established as The Ashmun Institute, the nation's
first degree-granting Historically Black College and
University.
(2) Frank Boston then attended the Medico-Chirurgical
College, an outgrowth of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of
Philadelphia, which merged with the University of
Pennsylvania Medical College and Jefferson Medical College.
(3) Dr. Boston enlisted and was immediately given the
rank of first lieutenant in the Army Medical Reserve Corps,
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where he served in France during World War I with the rank of
captain and ended his military service as a major.
(4) After the war, Dr. Boston returned to work in
Philadelphia and later settled in Lansdale where he opened
the Elm Terrace Hospital, which was later renamed North Penn
Hospital and subsequently became part of the Abington-
Jefferson Health Systems.
(5) Dr. Boston also formed a First Aid Emergency Squad
in Lansdale, eventually known as the Volunteer Medical
Service Corps of Lansdale, and was a member of the Reserve
Officers Association of Military Surgeons, the Montgomery
County Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
(6) Dr. Boston died February 8, 1960, at 69 years of
age, and was buried in Lansdale.
(b) Designation.--The portion of State Route 2004, also
known as North Broad Street, within the Borough of Lansdale and
Hatfield Township, Montgomery County, is designated as the Dr.
Frank Erdman Boston Memorial Highway.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to
traffic in both directions on the highway.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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