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WORDEN, James Avery:
Clergyman, author; born at Oxford. Ohio, Dec. 10, 1841; was graduated from Miami University, Ohio. 1861. He served in the Civil War as Second Lieutenant Company G, Sventy-fourth Volunteers, 1861-1863. He was graduated from
Princeton Theological Seminary. 1866: A. M., D. D., Lafayette College; LL. D., Miami University. Pastor. Oswego, N. Y., 1666-1872; Steubenville. Ohio. 1872-1878; has been at the head of the Presbyterian Sunday School Organization since 1978. Married, 1867, Mary R. Hendrickson. Princeton, N. J. Anthor of "Westminster Normal Outlines," (2 vols.); "Bible Teach- ers' Gnide" (2 vols.): "Bible Correspon- dence School" (S vols.); Westminster Nor- mal Quarterly. Address, 4208 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WORTH. William P .:
President of the National Bank of Coatesville. Address, Coatesville, Chester County, Pa.
WRIGHT, Charles Fred:
Congressman ( Republican) of Susque- hanna. Susquehanna County; born in For- est Lake Township, Susquehanna Coun- ty, Pa. Cashier of first National Bank of Susquehanna Depot, Pa .; was delegate to St. Louis Republican Convention in 1896. He was elected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses, and re- elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress. Address, Susquehanna, Pa.
WRIGHT, Robert Erskine:
Priest of the Episcopal Church; born in Philadelphia, Feb. S, 1859; was graduated B. A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1880, and B. D. from the General Theo- logical Seminary in 1885.
He was or- dained priest by Right Rev. H. C. Potter. Bishop of New York, in 1886; has been curate or rector of parishes in New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. Mar- ried in 1903 to Einma L. H. Kilbourne of Keokuk, lowa. Address, Fallsington, Pa.
WRIGHT, Robert J .:
Solicitor of the Hamilton Trust Com- pany, and one of the best known members of the Philadelphia bar. His practice as an attorney has covered a great deal in corporation affairs, in large real estate transactions, and in estates, and he is known as a lawyer who has an un- usual knowledge of everything relating to financial affairs; he is one of the most popular men at the bar in his city, and whenever he appears in a case in the County, Federal or State Courts there is public interest in what he does and says. He has had charge of the settle- ment of some very large estates, and among those which he has recently set- tled are several amounting in value to hundreds of thousands of dollars. His practice is almost entirely civil. Address. Broad and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
WRIGHT, Marie Robinson:
Author: born at Newman, Ga., 1806: daughter of Hon. John E. and S. A. Rob- inson; she received her education at Col- lege Temple, Newnan. Married, March 31. 18$2, Hinton P. Wright, who died in 15\1. She was for five years on tip stiff of the New York World: has traveled cx- tensively in America and Europe. Com-
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missioner from Georgia to Paris Exposi- tion, 1889, being the first woman to re- ceive such an appointment; decorated by the Mexican Government for her history of that country. Member of prominent clubs and interested in philanthropy. Author of "Picturesque Mexico," 1897; "The New Brazil," 1901 (latter was writ- ten after a journey of over 25,000 miles in South America, 1900, going from the top of the Andes Mountains in the Republic of Argentina to 1.000 miles up the Amazon River), and "Turpi Legends," 1903. Ad- dress, care of Barrie & Son, 1313 Walnut St .. Philadelphia, Pa.
WRIGLEY, Byran E .:
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Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Philadelphia: born in the Twenty-second Ward of that city, March 19, 1563; educated in the Philadel- phia public schools. After leaving school he was employed by his father, who was a manufacturer of soap, and later on the business was incorporated and he was made a Director, then Secretary and is now President of the company. In 1899 he was appointed a member of the Board of Health by the Mayor of Phila- delphia: he has been a member of the Thirty-third Ward Executive Committee for twelve years, and. was Vice President of same ten years. Elected to the House of Representatives in November, 1902. Address. 1527 Cayuga St .; office, 4478, Greene St., Germantown, Pa.
WURTS, Mexander Jay:
Electrical engineer; born at Carbondale. Pa., March 3, 1942; son of Charles P. and Laura Wurts; he was educated in the New Haven, Conn., public schools, and was graduated from the Sheffield Scien- tific School, Yale, 18\3. and from the Stevens Institute of Technology, 1884. He studied electricity under Professor Kohlrausch. Polytecknikum, Hanover. Germany, 1851-1886. Married, June 30, 1590, Jeanie Lowrie Childs, Pittsburg. Discoverer of the five non-arcing metals. Member American Institute Electrical En- gineers, American Philosophical Society, American Association for the Advance- ment of Science and the Pittsburg Acad- emy of Science and Arts. Awarded John Scott medal by City of Philadelphia through Franklin Institute for inventions in lightning arresters; he was formerly with the Westinghouse Electric and Man- ufacturing Company, but is now manager of the Nernst Company. Address, 116! Shady Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
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WURTS. Edward Vanuxem:
Mechanical engineer and steam expert; son of Theodore F. Wurts, C. E .; born at Tariffville, Conn., Aug. 24, -1570; received degree of Ph. B. from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 1892. Elected associate member American Society Me- chanical Engineers in 1897. Address, Ger- mantown, Pa.
WURTS, John Sparhawk:
Commissioner in Pennsylvania for each of the States and Territories; Commis- sioner for Porto Rico; born at Carbondale, Pa., June 18, 1876; educated at the West Jersey Academy and Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Member of the Sons of the Revolution and Site and Relic Society of Germantown; Secre- tary of the Henry Wynkoop Memorial Association and President of the Pennsyl- vania Legal Historical Society. Address, 5219 Morris St., Germantown, Pa.
WURTS, Theodore Frelinghuysen:
Civil Engineer; born at Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1844: his family removed to Carbon- dale, Pa., in 1848, where his father, Wil- liam Wurts, was attorney for the Dela- ware & Hudson Canal Company, and his uncle, John Wurts, M. C., was President; educated at the High School and by tutor in field and mines. Member of Union League before the war; in 1562 he enlisted in Wurts' Guard, and was at the battle of Antietam; later enlisted in 177th Pennsylvania Infantry and served as Colonel's clerk and Assistant Adjutant in the Department of Virginia. Mining engineer in Pennsylvania coal fields, and in South and West and on railroad loca- tion and construction in ten States; in 1877 he built the Short Line Railroad from Camden to Atlantic City. He was the first to report on drainage of Lake Okeechobee, the Disston Company send- ing him to the Everglades in 1851 for that purpose, entering through Kissimee River and Lako Okeechobee and going out through Caloosahatchee River to the Gulf; engineer of a railroad from St. John's River to the Suwanee in 18 2. He intro- duced the system of building beaches by natural forces and reclaiming overflowed lands in isss, obtaining two United States patents for same. Address, 5219 Morris St .. Germantown, Pa.
WALES, Andrew C .:
Lawyer: born in Brooklyn, N. Y .. Oct. 6. 1969; educated at Lawrenceville Pre- paratory School, 1999, Princeton Uni-
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versity, 1893, and New York Law School, 1895. Married, June, 1596, Alice Fairfield, daughter of Walter Scott Fairfield and granddaughter of Cornelius Stillman. Republican in politics. After being ad- mitted to the bar in New York he en- tered the Law Department of the Fidel- ity & Casualty Company of New York; since 189S in charge of their Philadelphia Legal Department. Address. 4257 Viola St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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YARNALL, Thomas O .:
Rector in Protestant Episcopal Church; born in Philadelphia, Dec. 10, 1815; edu- cated at Yale College, graduating in 1S11. Having studied for the church, he received deacon's and priest's orders at the hands of Bishop Onderdonk, and was elected rector of St. Mary's Church, on Locust Street, east of Fortieth Street, West Philadelphia, on April 11, 1824; he has held this position for a period of sixty years, he being at present pastor emeritus of the congregation to which he has given a lifetime of service. In 1844 the church stood in the open country; it is now in the heart of a closely built sec- tion of that city. Through Dr. Young's energy a new and much larger edifice was built in 1873, and in 1890 the present church edifice, a substantial stone struc- ture, was dedicated by Bishop Whitaker. The golden jubilee, or fiftieth anniversary, of Dr. Yarnell's rectorship was celebrated with very interesting ceremonies in 1894, and at this time an elaborate pulpit of stone and polished brass was erected, bearing an inscription commemorative of the occasion. Address, 3914 Locust St., Philadelphia, Pa.
YAARNELL, Charlton:
Member of the firm of Ellis Yarnell & Son. Married Anna Brinton Coxe. Mem- ber of Philadelphia, Radnor Hunt, Merion Cricket, Rittenhouse and County Clubs. Address, 2031 De Lancey St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
YATES, Leslie: .
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Philadelphia; born In that city, May 18. 1853; educated in public and private schools. He learned the printing business and for a number of years was manager of the Dunlap and Clark Printing House; was Deputy Col- lector of Delinquent Taxes during two
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terms; has been Secretary of the Thir- teenth Ward Republican Executive Com- mittee for twenty years, and for several years a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the State League of Republican Clubs. He was a member of the House of Representative, sessions of 1899 and 1901; re-elected in November, 1902. Ad- dress, 820 Spring Garden St., Philadel- phia, Pa.
TELLIG, John B .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Allegheny County; born at Mariah Hill, Spencer County, Ind., May 17, 1862; in 1865 he removed with his parents to Pittsburg, where he has since resided; educated in the public and private schools of Pittsburg. He was employed in the rolling mills for twenty- three years, and has always taken an ac- tive interest in labor affairs; has always been a Democrat and taken an active part in politics; was elected School Direc- tor twice and is now Secretary of the Board; has been Assistant Superintendent of the Prudential Life Insurance Company for the past five years. He was elected to the House of Representatives in No- vember, 1902. Address, 17 South Thirty- first St., Pittsburg, Pa.
YERKES, Barman:
Jurist; born in Bucks County, Pa., about 1$15; educated in that county, made the law his profession, and was admitted to practice in the county bar in 1865. He rose rapidly to eminence in his pro- fession, becoming widely known as a skillful trial lawyer, and especially noted for his striking success in criminal prac- tice. In the earlier years of his practice he was active in politics, and, after serv- ing as Deputy Attorney General, repre- sented his district for two terms in the Senate of Pennsylvania. He succeeded Judge Richard Watson as President Judge of Bucks County, his period of occupancy of the bench extending to 1901. Address, Doylestown, Pa.
YETTER. Milton :
President of the East Stroudsburg Na- tional Bank. Address, East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pa.
YOCUM, A. Duncan, Ph. D .:
Born in York, Pennsylvania, July 22. 1869; his father was Rov. A. Duncan Yocum of the Central Pennsylvania Con- ference of the M. E. Church, his mother Laura M., a daughter of the Rev. John
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A. Gere of the same denomination. Among his boyhood homes were McVey- town, Clearfield, Milton, Bellefonte, Car- lisle, Altoona and Everett. He graduated at Diekinson College in 1889 before he had reached the age of twenty, and in 1900 re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, after four years of graduate work. While in college he was editor of the Dickinsonian, Class Historian, Junior Chairman, Presi- dent of the Athletic Association, and a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. From 1889-1900 he was an instructor in the high school, Chester, Pa .; 1590-1895 supervising principal of public schools, Smyrna, Delaware; 1895-1900 superin- tendent of schools, Millville, New Jersey; and since 1900 has been superintendent of schools, Chester, Pa. While in Dela- ware he was the first president of the State Principals' Association, and an or- ganizer of summer schools for teachers which did much toward raising the stand- ard of education in the Peninsula. His graduate work at the University of Penn- sylvania was carried on in conjunction with the supervision of Millville schools. In 1900 he published a thesis entitled "An Inquiry into the Teaching of Addition and Subtraction" which has attracted much favorable attention from school- men and been highly commended by the educational press. Dr." Yocuin is a mem- ber of the Penn Club of Chester, the Ma- sonic Fraternity and other social and beneficial organizations. In 1891 he married May E. Turner of Chester. Their only son, Arnott Duncan Yocum, was born in Smyina, Delaware, in 1892. Address. Chester. Pa.
YOHE, James Buchanan:
General Superintendent of the Pitts- burg & Lake Erie Railroad Company; born in Bentleyville, Washington County, Pa .. June 24, 1:36, of German descent; received a common school education and attended the West Newton Academy; he then learned telegraphy, and in 1871 en- tered the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Since that time he has been consecutively telegraph opera- tor, chief clerk to trainmaster, and train dispatcher on Pittsburg Division, Balti- more & Ohio Railroad; chief train dis- patcher on Pittsburg & Western Railroad; trainmaster Pittsburg, Mckeesport & Youghiogheny railroad; chief train dis- Butcher and superintendent telegraph, master of transportation and Superinten-
dent, respectively, of the Pittsburg & Lake Eerie Railroad and leased lines. Married Miss Mamie M. Sykes, Dec. 13, 1877. He is a Past Master of Oakland Lodge No. 535, F. and A. M., and is a member of Zerubbabel Chapter No. 162, R. A. M., Pittsburg, Pa .; and of Yough- iogheny Conclave No. 166, I. O. H .; mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Address, 4221 Fifth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
YOUNG, James Kelly:
Surgeon; born at Trenton, N. J., April 29, 1862; son of William and Ellen (Kelly) Young; was graduated from Trenton High School, 1879, and from the Medical De- partment, University of Pennsylvania, 1883; he took special course in surgery under Dr. Albert of Vienna in 1885. Mar- ried, 1889, . Mary Wilson, M. D. Lec- turer on Orthopedic Surgery and Assistant Orthopedic Surgeon, University Hospital, Philadelphia; Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Philadelphia Polyclinic; Clinical Professor Orthopaedic Surgery, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania; consult- ing Orthopedic Surgeon Women's Hospi- tal, Philadelphia. Member American Or- thopædic Association, Congress of Ameri- can Physicians and Surgeons. Pediatric Society, Pennsylvania State Medical So- ciety, College Physicians, Philadelphia, and Academy of Surgeons, Philadelphia. Author of "Orthopedic Surgery," 1894; "Synopsis of Human Anatomy," 1899-1904. Contributor to "Roberts' Orthopedic Sur- gery," 1898-1904. Address, 222 South Six- teenth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
YOUNG, James Rankin:
Journalist and legislator; born in Phila- delphia. March 10, 1847; brother of John Russell Young, the late famous newspaper correspondent, a founder and one of the Presidents of the Philadelphia Union League, and cx-Minister to China. Mr. Young was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, being a school boy at the time of the invasion of Pennsylvania by General Lee, when he ran away and joined the Gray Reserves. He and his classmates who accompanied him were discharged as too young, but he tried to enlist again, and finally became clerk to Colonel J. B. Sheridan, Paymaster of the Army; he remained with him till after the war, and in 1865 entered the field of journalism as a reporter. In 1865-1866 he made a tour of the South, writing let- fers to the New York Tribune, and on his return became one of the founders of the Philadelphia Evening Star, of which
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he afterward became owner and remained so during its existence. In June, 1866, he succeeded Carl Schurz as Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, a position in which he remained for five years, withdrawing from it at length to devote his attention to the Evening Star, to which he wrote for many years a series of striking letters over the signa- ture of "S. M." There has been nothing more graceful. attractive and informing than these letters in the history of Wash- ington correspondence, and their reputa- tion became national. In December, 1873, Mr. Young was elected Chief Executive Clerk of the Senate, a position which he held till 1879, after which he was made Chief Clerk of the Department of Jus- tice; he was re-elected Chief Clerk of the Senate in 1883, and held the position till the office was abolished in 1892. He at- tended all the Republican National Con- ventions from 1864 onward. In 1897 he was elected a member of Congress to rep- resent the Fourth Pennsylvania District, and served for three terms, his member- ship ending on March 4, 1903. He was Vice President of the commission to lo- cate the positions of Pennsylvania troops in the battles of Chickamauga, Chatta- nooga and Lookout Mountain. He has been a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, and belongs to the Pen and Pencil. Stylus, and Clover Clubs. and the Masonic Order. He married Miss Mary Barclay of Washington in 1874. Address, Union League, Philadelphia, Pa.
YOUNG, James Scott:
Lawyer; born Dec. 3. 184S. in Pittsburg; son of William H. and Jane A. (Peters) Young; educated in common schools and Elder's Ridge Academy: in 1869 was grad- uated from Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. Admitted to the Allegheny County bar, Jan. 11, 1872; since Feb. 8, 1902, United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Member of the Union and University Clubs, Pittsburg. Address, Frick Build- ing, Pittsburg, Pa.
YOUNG, Richard:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private 109th Pennsylvania In- fantry, Dec. 3, 1861; discharged for pro- motion. Jan. 2S. 1862; First Lieutenant 109th Pennsylvania Infantry. Jan. 29, 1462: discharged for promotion, Oct, 29,
1862. Elected March 7, 1866. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
YOUNG, Samuel Baldwin Marks:
Lieutenant General United States Army; born in and appointed from Penn- sylvania; private Company K, Twelfth Pennsylvania infantry, April 25 to Aug. 5, 1861; Captain Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sept. 6, 1861; Major, Sept. 20, 1862; Lieutenant Colonel, May 1, 1864; Colonel, June 25, 1864; brevetted Brigadier General Volunteers, April 9, 1865, for gal- lant and meritorious services during the campaign terminating with the surrender of the insurgent army under Gen. R. E. Lee; honorably mustered out, July 1, 1865; Second Lieutenant Twelfth Infantry, May 11, 1866; Captain Eighth Cavalry, July 28, 1866; Major Third Cavalry, April 2, 1883; Lieutenant Colonel Fourth Cav- alry, Aug. 16, 1892; Colonel Third Cavalry, June 19, 1897; Brigadier General Volun- tcers, April 13, 1899; Brigadier General United States Army, Jan. 2, 1900; Major General, Feb. 2, 1901; brevetted Major, March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious services in action at Sulphur Spring, Va .; Lieutenant Colonel, March 2. 1567, for gallant and meritorious services in action at Amelia Springs, Va., and Colonel, March 2, 1867, for gallant and meritorious ser- vices in the battle of Sailors' Creek. Va. Address. 25 East Sixtieth St., New York City.
YOUNKINS, John:
President of the Farmers'' National Bank of Butler. Address, Butler, Pa.
YUNDT, Horace A .:
Lawyer; born in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pa., June 15, 1839. Af- ter preparing in the public schools, and West Chester Academy, he entered Frank- lin and Marshall College, Lancaster, from which he was graduated in 1859. taught in the Mount Joy Academy and the Paradise Academy (both institutions being in Lancaster County) for two years. and then enlisted in the Civil War, com- manding Company B. 178th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. Upon his re- turn from the army he read law in the office of Hon. John Banks, and was ad- mitted to practice Aug. 9, 1564. Hle was the Republican nominee for Judge in Berks County in 1879. Address, Read- ing, Pa.
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ZANE, Abraham V .:
Commander United States Navy; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Cadet Engineer, Oct. 1, 1871; Assistant Engineer, Feb. 26, 1875; Passed Assistant Engineer, Aug. 21, 1881; Worcester, North Atlantic Station, 1875-1877; Wyoming, European Station, 1877-1879; Naval Acad- emy, 1879-1SS1; Rodgers, special service, 1881-1882; Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1882-1885; Northern Alaska Expedition, 1855-1SS7; special duty, new cruisers, Philadelphia, 1887-1SS8; Omaha, Asiatic Station, 18SS-1891; Naval Observatory, 1891-1894; Monocacy, June, 1894-1896. Commissioned Chief Engineer, Septem- ber, 1895; Machias, July, 1896-1837; Civil Service Commission, Oct. 1, 1998; duty with Alabama (Bureau Steam Engineer- ing), June 22, 1899; promoted to Lieuten- ant Commander, March 3, 1899; Kear- sarge (fleet engineer), Oct. 16, 1900, to 1903; promoted Commander, Sept. 11, 1903; inspection duty, Bureau of Steam Engineering, August, 1903, to April 1904; Inspector of Machinery at Cramp & Sons' Ship & Engine Building Company, Phila- delphia, since April, 1904. Address. Cramp & Sons' Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
ZANE, Hysler J .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Bucks County; born in Rockhill Township. Bucks County, Pa., Sept. 4, 1859; educated in the township . public schools. - When-fifteen years of age he was apprenticed to the trade of car- riage trimming in his native town. Sel- lersville, and followed his trade and the manufacture of carriages until 1888, when he became associated with the firm of Headman & Co., painters and paper- hangers, with whom he remained until 1900. He was appointed Chief Burgess of Sellersville in 1890 to fill a vacancy; in 1891 he was appointed Justice of the Peace by Governor Beaver to fill a va- cancy also, and since then has been elected three times successively to the same office. He was one of the founders of the Sellersville Volunteer Fire Com- pany, and Secretary of same; also one of the organizers of the Sellersville Improve- ment Company, and is a Director and Secretary of same since its organization: he is also a member and officer of various other enterprises in Sellersville. He was
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Secretary of the Town Council from 1891 until his election to the House of Repre- sentatives in November, 19.02. Address, Sellersville, Pa.
ZARKER, A. U .:
President of the East End Bank. Ad- dress, Harrisburg, Pa.
ZECKWER, Richard:
Musician; born in Stendal, Prussia, April 30, 1850; son of Carl and Emile (Stroehmer) Zeckwer; educated at gym- nasium, Stendal, and at University of Leipzig; musical education at Leipzig Conservatory of Music, under Moscheles, Hauptmann, E. F. Richter, Papperitz and Reinecke; graduated, 1869. He came to the United State in 1869, his first employ- ment being as a teacher in the Philadel- phia Musical Academy, 1869; he became its proprietor in 1876. Married, 1874, Marie d'Invilliers. Organist at Church of St. Vincent de Paul, Germantown, 1871- 1878: organist Catholic Cathedral, Phila- delphia, 1879-1880; lecturer on acoustics before musical societies and at Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, also at Philadel- phia Academy of Natural Sciences; in- ventor of the liberating of the ring finger for the perfection of technique. Composer of songs and piano compositions, also "Festival Overture" and "Bride of Mes- sina." Author of "A Scientific Investiga- tion of Touch," 1902. Address, 106 North Thirty-fourth St. Philadelphia, Pa.
ZEIGLER, Edwin Elmer:
Member of the Pennsylvania Comman- dery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private Twenty-fifth Pennsyl- vania Infantry, April 18, 1861; mustered out. July 29. 1861; Second Lieutenant Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry, Oct. 24. 1861; resigned and honorably dis- charged. Nov. 22. 1861; Second Lieutenant 107th Pennsylvania Infantry, March 7, 1862; Captain. Oct. 31, 1862; Major, April 18, 1865; honorably mustered out, July 13, 1865; brevetted Lieutenant Colonel United States Volunteers, March 13. 1865, for gallant and efficient services. Elected Feb. 10. 1897. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
ZELL. T., Elwood:
Soldier and literary man; born in Phila- delphia, June 26, 1825; graduate of Central High School of Philadelphia. Served In Thion Army during Civil War, entering
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