Military officer; born in
Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland co., Pa., Dec. 30, 1819; became a civil engineer, and served as lieutenant-colonel of a Pennsylvania regiment of volunteers in the war with
Mexico, wherein he was wounded, and for gallant services was made colonel of his regiment.
He was first commander of the city of
Mexico after its capture.
He went to
San Francisco in 1848, and was the first mayor of that city.
Returning to
Pennsylvania, he was appointed territorial governor of
Kansas in July, 1856, an office he held one year.
Early in 1861 he raised and equipped the 28th regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers.
In the spring of 1862
he was promoted brigadier-general, and did good service throughout the war, becoming, at the end of
Sherman's march from
Atlanta to the sea, military governor of
Savannah and brevet major-general.
In 1866 he was elected governor of
Pennsylvania, and held the office till within two weeks of his death, in
Harrisburg, Feb. 8, 1873.
