. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . -—**,.. Henry F. Walton THOMAS J. POWERS Naval Officer of the Customs, was born in Ireland, January 10,1S45, but came to Philadelphia with his parents when he was liveyears of age. He was educated in the public schools, and while alad obtained employment in the book publishing house of Hayes& Zell, then at Fifth and Market streets. He had not attained hisseventeenth year when the civil war broke out, but he enlisted inthe Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Yolunteers, and served inthat and other regiments throughout the war, in fact beyond itsclose,
. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . -—**,.. Henry F. Walton THOMAS J. POWERS Naval Officer of the Customs, was born in Ireland, January 10,1S45, but came to Philadelphia with his parents when he was liveyears of age. He was educated in the public schools, and while alad obtained employment in the book publishing house of Hayes& Zell, then at Fifth and Market streets. He had not attained hisseventeenth year when the civil war broke out, but he enlisted inthe Forty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Yolunteers, and served inthat and other regiments throughout the war, in fact beyond itsclose, for he was not finally discharged until September, 1S65. Hisarmy record is a highly honorable one. He participated in four-teen battles, including the Second Bull Run, Sudley Spring Roadand Chantilly. At Bolivar, Tennessee, while in a cavalry charge,he had his horse shot from under him and he himself was his retirement from the army he engaged in mercantile bus- PETER LANE, Jr. Now Deputy Naval Officerfor the Port of Philadelphia
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