Biography

04/14/1817 - 05/15/1897

STUMBAUGH, Frederick Shearer, a Representative from Franklin and Perry Counties; born, April 14, 1817 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pa.; captain, Independent Blues Company (1849-1853) and Chamber’s Artillerists Company (1853-1858), Chambers Artillery Company (1858-1861), Pennsylvania Militia (1849-1861); colonel, 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); colonel, 77th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1862, Civil War); brigadier general, staff of General Couch, Department of the Susquehanna, United States War Department (1863, Civil War); attorney (1851-1897); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1865 and 1866; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1867); attorney, Iowa and Kansas; elected, Kansas House of Representatives (1879-1880); died, May 15, 1897 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas; interred, Topeka Cemetery, Topeka; Shawnee County, Kansas.