The son of Hon. Jeremiah Sullivan & Mary (Forward) Black, his whereabouts in 1860 are as yet unknown, but by no later than 1862 he was living in York County. By then he had studied at an academy in Morgantown, West Virginia, Hiram College in Ohio, and Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Washington County, and had earned a law degree.
A Civil War veteran for a brief and uneventful period, he enlisted in York September 12, 1862, as a private with the Gibson Independent Company of Emergency Militia and honorably discharged with the unit September 24, 1862, after the end of the emergency.
He married Mary Clarke Dawson in 1863 (1870 also reported) and fathered the children you see linked below. Elected as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor in 1882, he died in York reportedly from Bright's disease.
A Civil War veteran for a brief and uneventful period, he enlisted in York September 12, 1862, as a private with the Gibson Independent Company of Emergency Militia and honorably discharged with the unit September 24, 1862, after the end of the emergency.
He married Mary Clarke Dawson in 1863 (1870 also reported) and fathered the children you see linked below. Elected as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor in 1882, he died in York reportedly from Bright's disease.
The son of Hon. Jeremiah Sullivan & Mary (Forward) Black, his whereabouts in 1860 are as yet unknown, but by no later than 1862 he was living in York County. By then he had studied at an academy in Morgantown, West Virginia, Hiram College in Ohio, and Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Washington County, and had earned a law degree.
A Civil War veteran for a brief and uneventful period, he enlisted in York September 12, 1862, as a private with the Gibson Independent Company of Emergency Militia and honorably discharged with the unit September 24, 1862, after the end of the emergency.
He married Mary Clarke Dawson in 1863 (1870 also reported) and fathered the children you see linked below. Elected as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor in 1882, he died in York reportedly from Bright's disease.
A Civil War veteran for a brief and uneventful period, he enlisted in York September 12, 1862, as a private with the Gibson Independent Company of Emergency Militia and honorably discharged with the unit September 24, 1862, after the end of the emergency.
He married Mary Clarke Dawson in 1863 (1870 also reported) and fathered the children you see linked below. Elected as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor in 1882, he died in York reportedly from Bright's disease.
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