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George G. Coster, born in 1840 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer and printer in Philadelphia between 1865 and 1895.
A Union soldier with Company K, 91st Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry from September 27, 1861 to the end of the war, Coster
was mustered out as Full 1st Sergeant. He returned to Philadelphia and was employed as a lithographic printer. Coster resided
in several different wards of the city, predominately in the north, with his wife, Barbara (b. ca. 1847), and their five children:
Charlie H. (b. 1867), Emma J. (b. 1871), George G. (b. 1872), Harry (b. 1876), and William (b. 1880). In 1897, the widowed
Coster admitted himself to the Central Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Dayton, Ohio. By 1900, he resided on North
Jessup Street in Philadelphia with two of his sons and his mother-in-law. Ten years later he lived with his daughter, Emma
Snyder, and her family in Ward 37 of the city. Coster died on July 4, 1924.
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