Biography

1842 - 01/03/1899


HERVEY, Robert, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, 1842 in Pennsylvania; private, Company C and D, 82nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1863, Civil War); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1869 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1870 term; telegraph operator; watchman, War Department, Washington, D.C.; died, October 3, 1899 in Washington, D.C.; interred, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia.


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