Wadhams, Elijah Catlin

Life Span
to
Dickinson Connection
Class of 1846
Full name
Elijah Catlin Wadhams
Place of Birth
Plymouth, PA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
Family
Samuel Wadhams (father), Clorinda Starr Catlin Wadhams (mother), Esther Taylor French Wadhams (wife)
Education
Dickinson (Carlisle College)
Other
Other Education
University of City of New York
Occupation
Attorney or Judge
Businessman
Church or Religious Denomination
Methodist
Government
State legislature

Elijah C. Wadhams (Dickinson Alumni Record)

Reference
*Wadhams, Elijah C. – Born July 17, 1825, Plymouth Pa.; prep., Dickinson grammar school; entered 1842; A. B., University of City of New York, 1847; lawyer; engaged in business in Plymouth, Pa., until 1873, when removed to Wilkesbarre; state senator, 1877-80; U.P. society. Died January 18, 1889, in Willkesbarre, Pa.
George Leffingwell Reed, ed., Alumni Record: Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA:Dickinson College, 1905), 125.
Dickinson College
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