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Birth: January 24, 1824; Baltimore, Maryland
Death: November 13, 1865 (age 41); Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, Virginia
Military service: Mexican War, 1847-49 (Surgeon); USN, 1861-63 (Surgeon)
Unit: - -
Alma Mater: Dickinson College, B.A. (Class of 1842);...
William Lewis Dewart was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania on June 21, 1821, the only son of Lewis and Elizabeth Ligett Dewart. His father was an influential railroad director and politician who had been speaker of the Pennsylvania house, congressman from Sunbury, an unsuccessful candidate for...
Birth: December 3, 1821; Walnut Hill, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Death: April 3, 1895 (age 73); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Military Service: USA, 1861-65
Unit: 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry "Lochiel Cavalry," 92nd U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, 3rd Cavalry Division
Alma Mater...
James Kelly was born in Blanchard on the northeastern edge of Centre County, Pennsylvania on February 16, 1819. He was educated at the Milton and Lewisburg Academies and took his undergraduate degree at Princeton University in 1839. He enrolled in the law department at Dickinson College in 1840...
Willard Saulsbury was born as the youngest of three sons of William and Margaret Smith Saulsbury, wealthy landowners in Kent County, Delaware, on June 2, 1820. Saulsbury prepared at Delaware College at Newark, and attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania between 1839 and 1840 in the...
Carroll Spence was born at Mount Clare, the family home, on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland on February 22, 1818, the son of naval hero Robert Traill and Mary Clare Carroll Spence. He was educated privately and then in the law department at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in...
