History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . of an adej)t. Mr. Withingtonis a Republican in politics and a member of the I. 0. O. F. He was married,November 18, 1888, at Snydertown, to Aldah M. Neice, who was born inRush to^vnship, this cotmty. -\pril 18, 1867. (Since the foregoing was writ-ten Mr. Withington has withdrawn from the paper, and is now a compositoron the Philadelphia Inquirer.) Geoege B. C.\dw.\llader. ex-chief bttrgess of Sunbury, was born inDoylestown, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1830, son of Dr. Peter and Hannah(Magill) Cadwallader, natives of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania . of an adej)t. Mr. Withingtonis a Republican in politics and a member of the I. 0. O. F. He was married,November 18, 1888, at Snydertown, to Aldah M. Neice, who was born inRush to^vnship, this cotmty. -\pril 18, 1867. (Since the foregoing was writ-ten Mr. Withington has withdrawn from the paper, and is now a compositoron the Philadelphia Inquirer.) Geoege B. C.\dw.\llader. ex-chief bttrgess of Sunbury, was born inDoylestown, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1830, son of Dr. Peter and Hannah(Magill) Cadwallader, natives of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and descend-ants of Scotch ancestry. Doctor Cadwallader died in 1882, and his widowlived to the advanced age of eighty years. Of his three sons and one daugh-ter George B. is the only one hving. The subject of this sketch was-rearedin Bucks county, received an academic education, and subsequently gradu-ated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Engaging in the drugbusiness at Danville, he followed it altogether at various places about twenty-. V BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 849 five years, ^\^lea the war broke out he was in business at Shamokin. andin April, 1861, entered the army as first lieutenant of Company A, Eio-hthPennsylvania Volunteers, and served three months. Ee-enlisting in Augustfollowing he was made first lieutenant of Company K, Forty-sixth Pennsyl-vania Volunteers, and thereafter served in about the following manner untilSeptember 10, 1S66, at which time he was mustered out at Richmond. Vir-ginia: September 17, 1861, he was first lieutenant and quartermaster ofthe Forty-sixth regiment; July, 1863, captain and assistant quartermasterU. S. A.; March, 1865, brevetted major and lieutenant colonel; for faithful andmeritorious service during the war he was brevetted colonel, and in , for faithful and efficient services in the quartermasters department, hewas brevetted brigadier general. Dttring the period covered by the foregoingpromotions, he was brigade qua
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