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Title Urwiler, George C.
Date April 5, 1827-1898
Description George C. Urwiler, born on April 5, 1827 in Pennsylvania, worked briefly as a lithographer in 1862, possibly with family members John J. Urwiler and Benjamin F. Urwiler, lithographers who worked with W.H. Rease and William Hart from the mid-1850s until the mid-1860s.
By 1850, when in his early twenties, Urwiler worked as an engineer soldier and resided in Cornwall, New York, near the United States Military Academy at West Point. He returned to Pennsylvania by 1856, the year he married his wife, Caroline Lindnner (1836-1920), at the First Presbyterian Church of Kensington, where he later served as an elder and superintendent of the Sabbath School. First listed in Philadelphia city directories as a conductor living at Twenty-fourth and Coates Streets in 1860, he was listed as a lithographer living at 2334 Wallace Street in 1862. Their first-born child, George Herman (1857-1910), was born before Urwiler enlisted as a captain in the Pennsylvania Infantry of the Sixty-Seventh Regiment in 1861. After he was mustered out in 1865, the family lived at 2037 Frankford Avenue and Urwiler worked as a conveyancer and his wife worked in "trimmings." Urwiler's daughters, Kate R. (b. 1869), and Lillian G. (b. 1872), were born around the same time the family moved to 104 East Sharpnack Street in Germantown. By this time, Urwiler worked steadily as a conductor, until the 1890s when he, along with his son, worked as a clerk. He died in 1898 as recorded in his wife's application for his Civil War pension as a widow on July 25th.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Hart, William; Rease, W.H.; Uwiler, Benjamin F.; and Urwiler, John J.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1850, 1860, 1880
Civil War Pension Index, General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
"George C. Urwiler," http://kennethwmilano.com
Philadelphia Business and City directories, 1860-1890 (intermittently)
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles