Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
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Gottleib (Godlove Stoner) Orth and Mary A. Ayres




Husband Gottleib (Godlove Stoner) Orth 1 2

           Born: 22 Apr 1817 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 16 Dec 1882 - Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co, IN
         Buried: 


         Father: Gottleib Orth (1764-1831) 1 3
         Mother: Sarah Steiner (      -1834) 1


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Miller (      -1849) 2



Wife Mary A. Ayres

           Born: 27 Jul 1830 - Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co, IN
     Christened: 
           Died: 10 Sep 1887 - Virginia
         Buried: 


Children

General Notes: Husband - Gottleib (Godlove Stoner) Orth


He was educated at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; studied law, and upon his admission to the bar in 1839, removed to Lafayette, Indiana; he was a member of the State Senate of Indiana continuously from 1843 to 1850; was elected President of the Senate in 1845, and thus became acting Lieutenant-Governor of the State; Presidential elector on Taylor and Fillmore ticket, 1848; was a member of the Peace Conference in 1861, and in 1862 served as captain in the Seventy-sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, being placed in charge of the United States ram "Horner," assigned to duty on the Ohio River; was elected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses; was elected to the Forty-third Congress from the State at large; upon the adjournment of this Congress he was appointed and accepted the position of United States Minister to Vienna, having previously declined the Mission to Brazil, tendered him by President Grant; on his return from Vienna he was elected to the Forty-sixth Congress, and in 1879 received the complimentary vote of his party for United States Senator against Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, and was re-elected to the Forty-seventh Congress as a Republican. In August, 1882, he was unanimously nominated by his party for Representative in the Forty-eighth Congress.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Lebanon in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 248.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 276.

3 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 383.


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