Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Lorenzo Leonard Greenawalt and Anna Gorgas




Husband Lorenzo Leonard Greenawalt 1 2

           Born: 6 Jan 1827 - Lebanon, Lebanon Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: Josiah Greenawalt (1799-1865/1866) 1 4
         Mother: Mary "Polly" Laub (1800-1880) 1 4


       Marriage: 16 Sep 1881 or 1882 2 3



Wife Anna Gorgas 2 5

           Born:  - Stillwater, Washington Co, MN
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         Father: Col. Adam Gorgas (      -      ) 2
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Children

General Notes: Husband - Lorenzo Leonard Greenawalt


He was educated in the schools of the town and at the old Lebanon Academy. He learned tanning and leather-dressing, the former of which occupations he followed many years. He made two trips across the plains to the Pacific Coast,-one in 1852, when the undertaking was a hazardous one, the other in 1871. During the war for the Union he was captain of Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, subsequently in the Twenty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Militia as major. He participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. The only municipal office he ever held was assistant burgess of Lebanon borough. He was later a mail agent in the government employ.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 241, 305.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 313.

3 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 305.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 307.

5 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 306.


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