John D. Lankenau

He took a job with a German dry goods importer, and then, in 1835, emigrated to Philadelphia to represent the company in America.

After Francis' death in 1863, managing the enormous estate would partially occupy Lankenau for the rest of his life.

Lankenau agreed, and the university eventually received works appraised at $150,000 ($5,493,600 today[3]), including paintings of the Barbizon School by Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878) and Jules Dupré (1811- 1889) and by artists of the Düsseldorf Academy, including Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910) and Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905).

[5] "This opened the gates for a flood of deaconesses to come and provide care in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Omaha," wrote one Lutheran-history site.

"From the 1930s to the early 1950s, deaconesses from the Philadelphia Motherhouse served at Lankenau Hospital, the Philadelphia Children's Hospital, the Mary J. Drexel Home for the Aged, the Lankenau School for Girls, ministries in the Virgin Islands, parishes and many more sites.