Biography

05/20/1842 - 10/17/1910


SCHWARTZ, George J., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, May 20, 1842 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company C, 18th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); captain, Companies B & G, 114th Regiment, “Collis Zouaves,” Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1862, Civil War); manufacturer, gold watches; piano maker; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1882, unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1884); died, October 17, 1910 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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