Wadhams, Elijah Catlin

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Dickinson Connection
Class of 1846
    Full name
    Elijah Catlin Wadhams
    Place of Birth
    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.
    How to Cite This Page: "Wadhams, Elijah Catlin," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6783.