Biography

05/12/1849 - 02/07/1902

SANDERSON, Theodore Calvin, a Representative from Bedford County; born, Ickesburg, Perry County, Pa. on May 12, 1849; attended, New Bloomfield Academy; attended, The Pennsylvania State (University) College; enlisted, United States Army (1865, Civil War); school teacher (5 years); freight and ticket agent, weighmaster, general dispatcher and trainmaster, Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad; justice of the peace, Hopewell; school director, Saxton (12 years); proprietor, Fickes & Sanderson, grain dealers; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1900; died while in office, February 7, 1902 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.