Pitman, Charles Wesley

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Class of 1838
    Full name
    Charles Wesley Pitman
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Children
    6
    Family
    Charles Pitman (father), Mary Newbold Pitman (mother)
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Businessman
    Educator
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Methodist
    Political Parties
    Whig
    Republican
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    Local government

    Charles Wesley Pitman (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    PITMAN, Charles Wesley, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Jersey, birth date unknown; attended the common schools; was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1838; moved to Pottsville, Pa., the same year and conducted a school for boys, known as the Pottsville Academy; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1851); later became affiliated with the Republican Party; engaged extensively in the lumber business; elected sheriff of Schuylkill County in 1870 and served from January 1871 until his death in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., June 8, 1871; interment in Presbyterian Cemetery.
    "Pitman, Charles Wesley," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000369.
    How to Cite This Page: "Pitman, Charles Wesley," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6413.