A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in New Brighton, Beaver County, March 28, 1864, mustered there the same day as a private with Co. B, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pa), and honorably discharged with his company June 9, 1865.
After the war, he became a teacher and then served four years as a state representative from Lawrence County. After that, he entered service with the state education hierarchy and was, for a time, president of the Pennsylvania Teachers Association. He married Mary C. Liebendorfer, 19 years his junior, on November 8, 1893, and fathered John Q. (b. 09/09/94), Mary Rebecca (b. 10/15/94), and James H. (b. 09/26/96).
Cause of death is listed as "progressive paresis."
bio courtesy of Dennis Brandt
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in New Brighton, Beaver County, March 28, 1864, mustered there the same day as a private with Co. B, 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (43rd Pa), and honorably discharged with his company June 9, 1865.
After the war, he became a teacher and then served four years as a state representative from Lawrence County. After that, he entered service with the state education hierarchy and was, for a time, president of the Pennsylvania Teachers Association. He married Mary C. Liebendorfer, 19 years his junior, on November 8, 1893, and fathered John Q. (b. 09/09/94), Mary Rebecca (b. 10/15/94), and James H. (b. 09/26/96).
Cause of death is listed as "progressive paresis."
bio courtesy of Dennis Brandt
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