Biography

1815 - 12/31/1865

HULTZ, Hiram, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, 1815 in Greene County, Pa.; paymaster and quartermaster, Jefferson Cavalry, 18th Division, 1st Brigade, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Militia (1849-1858); colonel, Second Regiment, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania National Guards (1861-1862); sergeant, Company K, 127th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865, Civil War); farmer; president, County Temperance Convention (1841, 1854); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1843 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1844 term; unsuccessful campaign, recorder of deeds, Allegheny County (1845); elected, prothonotary, Allegheny County (1849-1852); elected, delegate, Whig State Convention (1850); appointed, commissioner, Committee to Layout a Road in Allegheny and Washington Counties (1854); died, December 31, 1865 in Snowden Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Clair Cemetery, Mount Lebanon, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.