BIO: William Penn Lloyd, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

422  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  WILLIAM PENN LLOYD, attorney at law, ex-United States collector of 
internal revenue, etc., Mechanicsburg, was born in Lisburn, Cumberland 
County, Penn., September 1, 1837, only son of William and Amanda 
(Anderson) Lloyd, both of Cumberland County, former of whom learned the 
trade of cabinet-maker, engaged in the drug business, and was 
postmaster of Lisburn for thirty years.  William P. Lloyd worked on a 
farm and at cabinet-making, with his father, until his eighteenth year.  
He attended the public schools, Dickinson Seminary, Cumberland County 
Normal School, and Whitehall Academy - a single session at each of the 
last three-named institutions, amounting in all to about one year of 
academic instruction - teaching in the winter and attending school in 
the summer.  At the age of eighteen he began teaching, and at twenty he 
began the study of law under Col. William M. Penrose, then a prominent 
lawyer at Carlisle, and continued teaching and studying until the 
outbreak of the Rebellion, when he raised a company for the three 
months' service, but the quota of the State being filled before it was 
ready to be mustered in, it was disbanded, and in August 186_, he 
enlisted in Company G, First Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry.  He served 
sixteen months as a private, was promoted to hos-

423  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

pital steward of the regiment, then to first lieutenant of Company E, 
and next to adjutant of regiment, acting as assistant adjutant-general 
of brigade.  In this capacity he served until September 9, 1864, when 
the regiment was mustered out at expiration of its three years' term of 
service.  He was engaged in the battles of Drainsville, Harrisonburg, 
Cedar Mountain, Gainesville, Second Bull Run (both days), 
Fredericksburg, Brandy Station, Aldie, Gettysburg (second and third 
days), Shepherdstown, New Hope Church, Todd's Tavern, Childsberg, 
Richmond Heights and Meadow Bridge, Haws Shop, Cold Harbor, Barker's 
Mill, Trevillian Station, White House, St. Mary's Church, and a score 
or more of skirmishes.  Col. Lloyd returned home to Lisburn, and on the 
organization of the State Guards, under Gen. Hartranft, was appointed 
inspector-general, with rank of lieutenant-colonel.  He resumed 
teaching and the study of law until April 18, 1865, when he was 
admitted to the bar of Cumberland County.  He has since been admitted 
to practice in the courts of Dauphin, York and Perry Counties, the 
supreme court of Pennsylvania, and district court of the United States.  
September 16, 1866, he was appointed collector of internal revenue for 
the Fifteenth Congressional District of Pennsylvania, comprising the 
counties of York, Cumberland and Perry.  The important and responsible 
duties of the position were discharged by Collector Lloyd in such a 
manner as to win the unqualitied approval of the General Government, 
and was made the subject of highly commendatory remarks by Gen. Cameron 
in the United States Senate.  He resigned the collectorship August 1, 
1869, to accept a position in the Dauphin Deposit Bank at Harrisburg, 
remaining nearly fifteen years, and until January, 1884, when he quit 
the bank and went to work on his farm near Mechanicsburg.  A year 
later, regaining his health, which had suffered from confinement in the 
bank, he opened his present law offices (January 1, 1885).  He is one 
of the executors and trustees of the estate of the late Hon. Henry G. 
Moser, a director of Harrisburg Bridge Company, and of the 
Mechanicsburg & Dillsburg Railroad Company.  He has been commander of 
Col. H. I. Zinn Post, No. 415, G. A. R., since its organization, March 
4, 1884.  He is the author of the "History of the First Pennsylvania 
Reserve Cavalry," a very complete work, giving a graphic history of the 
three years' service of this regiment during the late Rebellion, etc.  
Mr. Lloyd was married, May 23, 1865, to Miss Anna H., daughter of 
Israel L. and Margaret (Moser) Boyer, and their family consists of 
three children:  Weir B., Mary E. and George E.  Col. Lloyd is a Mason, 
a member of Eureka Lodge of Mechanicsburg, and a Knight Templar, St. 
John's Commandery, No. 8, Carlisle.  His family is Welsh and English on 
the father's side, and Scotch-Irish on the mother's side.  He himself 
is known extensively as a prompt and capable business man and a genial 
and affable gentleman.