Biography

08/01/1800 - 12/16/1860


HORTZ, Charles, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, August 1, 1800 in Southwark, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; grain measurer; elected, magistrate, Southwark; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1849 term; keeper, Philadelphia County Prison; died, December 16, 1860 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Wharton Street Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (defunct); removed to Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, Gloucester County, New Jersey. 


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