Biography

1823 - 09/15/1894

ECKERT, Vincent Conrad Sebastian, a Representative from York County; born, circa 1823; captain, Company G, 87^th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1863, Civil War); shoe and boot merchant; proprietor, Hanover Gazette (1852-1865); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1853; liquor dealer; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Hanover (1864); life insurance agent; restaurant and bar owner; proprietor, clothing business, Baltimore, Md.; died, September 15, 1894 in Newburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.