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Title Urwiler, Reuben J.
Date ca. 1834-January 31, 1919
Description Reuben J. Urwiler, born ca. 1834 in Philadelphia, worked as a lithographer in 1862, possibly with his brother, Benjamin F. Urwiler (1830-1913), and cousin, John J. Urwiler (1829-1904), lithographers who worked with W. H. Rease and William Hart mid-1850s-mid-1860s. Urwiler also worked in the trades of surgical instrument maker, engineer, machinist, caulker, and cigar store owner. Between 1862 and 1865, Urwiler served as a Private in the Sixty-Seventh Regiment, Company K of the Union army. Urwiler married Mary A. (b. 1842), with whom he had three children, including Fanny, Carrie and John, and resided in North Philadelphia (Ward 19) by 1870. By 1910, he resided with his wife and his granddaughter Mary (b. 1893) on Hull Street in Northeast Philadelphia (Ward 25), but by the time of his death on January 31, 1919, they lived at 6161 Catherine Street in West Philadelphia.
Is part of Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
References See Urwiler, Benjamin F. and Urwiler, John J.
Call number Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers
Bibliographic citation Census 1850, 1870, 1910
Philadelphia City Directories, 1856-1915 (intermittently)
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 2-3, 1919