Biography

04/13/1846 - 03/18/1906

MAGNIN, Albert, a Representative from Delaware County; born, April 13, 1846 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; sergeant, Company D, 26th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, First Washington Guards (1861-1864, Civil War); sergeant, Company C, 99th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865, Civil War); second lieutenant, Company F, 203rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1865, Civil War); farmer; editor and proprietor, Darby Progress, weekly newspaper; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in a Special Election on November 5, 1889; reelected to the House in 1890; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1892, 1894); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Darby (1900-1906); died, March 18, 1906 in Darby, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; interred, Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.