Biography

10/17/1846 - 03/29/1916

LAPPE, Charles Otto H., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, October 17, 1846 in Reserve Township, Allegheny County, Pa; private, Company H, 193rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864, Civil War); engaged, tanning business, J.C. Lappe & Sons; elected, select council and council, Pittsburgh (1879-1885); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1886; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888); engaged, insurance; died, March 29, 1916 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Voegtly Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.