Collection SCHND: John J. Schneider Collection, 1775 - 1870 Series: Historical Documents, 1970 - 1970 Item: Letter from James Veech to Secretary of War Simon Cameron
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Shallenberger, George Ashmond, 1827-1902
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George A. Shallenberger was a merchant in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He entered the service in the civil war and became a lieutenant-colonel. The last twenty years of his life he was the superintendent of the reform school of the District of Columbia. He died in DC on July 4, 1902 at the age of 75 years. His brother, William Shadrach Shallenberger, served as second assistant postmaster general, and is buried next to him in Arlington National Cemetery....
Veech, James, 1808-1879
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James Veech was a prominent western Pennsylvanian author, politician, lawyer and historian born in Menallen Township, Pa., in 1808 and dies in Emsworth, Pa., in 1879. From the description of Papers Df1793-1879. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 37570353 Brigadier General William Irvine commanded Fort Pitt in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from November 6, 1781 to September 30, 1783. During that time, Fort Pitt served as the headquarters for the western th...
Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889
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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...
