Carlisle. March 6. -- Hon. Theodore Cornman, ex-member of the legislature, president of the school board and a leading member of the Cumberland County bar, died suddenly here today from pneumonia, aged sixty years.
Provided by Dennis Brandt, contributor 47232334:
Theodore married Lydia Miller December 20, 1859, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and fathered George W. U. (b. 1860), Charles Tolbert (b. 04/15/62), Sarah E. "Sallie" (b. 01/19/68, d. 08/14/68), and Theodore (b. @1868). In 1860, he was a teacher living with his family in Carlisle, Cumberland County. Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran of brief and uneventful duration, he enlisted during the Antietam crisis, mustered into state service at Carlisle as a sergeant with Co. D, 1st Pennsylvania Infantry Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 24, 1862. His brother was captain of the same company.
He later became a successful attorney and served in the state legislature. Lydia died in 1878, and he subsequently married Annie E. Green.
Carlisle. March 6. -- Hon. Theodore Cornman, ex-member of the legislature, president of the school board and a leading member of the Cumberland County bar, died suddenly here today from pneumonia, aged sixty years.
Provided by Dennis Brandt, contributor 47232334:
Theodore married Lydia Miller December 20, 1859, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and fathered George W. U. (b. 1860), Charles Tolbert (b. 04/15/62), Sarah E. "Sallie" (b. 01/19/68, d. 08/14/68), and Theodore (b. @1868). In 1860, he was a teacher living with his family in Carlisle, Cumberland County. Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran of brief and uneventful duration, he enlisted during the Antietam crisis, mustered into state service at Carlisle as a sergeant with Co. D, 1st Pennsylvania Infantry Militia, and honorably discharged with his company September 24, 1862. His brother was captain of the same company.
He later became a successful attorney and served in the state legislature. Lydia died in 1878, and he subsequently married Annie E. Green.
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