Biography

04/10/1837 - 07/12/1905

WAGNER, John S., a Representative from Berks County; born, April 10, 1837 in Weilheim Kirchheim, Württemberg, Germany; private, Company K, 20th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); private, Company H, 104th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1863-1865, Civil War); cabinet maker; wood turner; proprietor, hotel and saloon; elected, city council, Reading (1871-1873, 1877-1879); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1880; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882); building inspector, Reading (1896-1901); president, Ringgold Band; died, July 12, 1905 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.