Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Francis WISTER

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Francis Wister, fifth son of William and Sarah Logan (Fisher) Wister, born at the old family mansion, "Belfield," Germantown, June 2, 1841, was educated at Germantown Academy and University of Pennsylvania, graduating at the latter institution, class of 1860. He responded to the first call for volunteers to put down the Rebellion, and was commissioned Captain, in the Twelfth Regiment, U. S. Infantry, August 5, 1861. He was promoted to Colonel of the Two Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers April 21, 1865, was mustered out of the volunteer service August 28, 1865, and resigned from the regular army service April 5, 1866. While serving with the Twelfth U. S. Infantry, he was brevetted Major for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, and on July 2, 1863, was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel, for gallant and meritorious service, at the battle of Gettysburg. After resigning from the army at the conclusion of peace, he returned to Philadelphia and engaged in the coal and coke business there until attacked with an incurable disease a few months before his death. He died November 25, 1905. He married, February 29, 1880, Mary Chancellor, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Chancellor (Twells) Tiers, who survives him. They had no children.

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