Biography

08/31/1838 - 06/04/1913


HONG, Marshall C., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, August 31, 1838 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; second lieutenant, Company I, 95th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1864, Civil War); attorney; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1868 term; reelected to the House for the 1869 and 1870 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1871 term; secretary, Philadelphia Republican Executive Committee (1871); deputy sheriff, Philadelphia (1872); roads contractor; assistant city solicitor, Philadelphia; tipstaff, Quarter Sessions Court, Philadelphia; died, June 4, 1913 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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