Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . nety-fifth Penn-sylvania Regiment, on his return became a con-tractor in Columbia, where his death occurred;Amos, also of the One Hundred and Ninety-fifthPennsylvania, was a prominent builder and ownerof a planing mill in this city, where he passed hislast years; Joseph R., who was in the Ninth Penn-sylvania Cavalry, is now interested in the Harris-buig Iron Mills; John
Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaContaining biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens ..together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . nety-fifth Penn-sylvania Regiment, on his return became a con-tractor in Columbia, where his death occurred;Amos, also of the One Hundred and Ninety-fifthPennsylvania, was a prominent builder and ownerof a planing mill in this city, where he passed hislast years; Joseph R., who was in the Ninth Penn-sylvania Cavalry, is now interested in the Harris-buig Iron Mills; John W., of the First Pennsyl-vania Reserves, was wounded at White Oak Swamp,being a prisoner for eleven months, in later yearshe wrote the work entitled Battle Field andPrison Pen, and is now a resident of Abram L., now an Episcopal minister atScrantou, Pa., was only a boy during the fore partof the war, but enlisted and served as soon as hehad reached the regulation age. Dr. Urban, of this .sketch, who was next to the3oungest of his parents family, received a generaleducation in Conestoga, where he was reared, andin the spring of 18G2, when fifteen years old, vol-unteered his services and became a member of. W. E. LANT. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 475 Company D, First Pennsylvania Reserves, beingimistered in at PImnixville, Pa.,as a private. Atthe expiration of two years be was made a Hospi-Uil Stewart, serving as such until the close of theconllict. He tooiv part in the battles of Fredericks-burg, Rappahannock and (Gettysburg and in all ofthe engagements of the Third Brigade until thecapture of Richmond. He never awa^ fromhis regiment nor was he ever wounded, but in thespring of 1865 he was taken witli malarial feverand lias sufifcred from its effects ever since, hisphysical ct)ndition having been practically poi-soned. He was mustered out in .June, 1865, andreturned home. After taking up his studies for alirae young Urban was examined and took the bests
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