Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Muhlenberg, Charles September 30, 1838 

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  CHARLES MUHLENBERG, one of the veteran survivors of the old one hundred and
forty-second reg. of Pa. Vols. and a comfortably-situated farmer of Mt. Pleasant
township, is a son of Henry Muhlenberg, a native of Germany and was born
September 30, 1838, in Hanover, then a province of the kingdom of Prussia but
now a State of the German empire. His grandfather Muhlenberg was a member of the
Evangelical Lutheran church. He was a life-long resident of Prussia, where he
married and had two children, Frederick and Henry, who both immigrated to the
Unted States and settled in western Pennsylvania. Frederick Muhlenberg resides
in Somerset county where he married Susan Capes and is engaged in farming.

     Henry Muhlenberg, the father of the subject of this sketch, came to
Somerset in 1850 but soon removed to Fayette county, this State, where he
remained until his death. He was a member of the Lutheran church, and after his
arrival in this country he affiliated with the Democratic party for whose
nominees he always cast his ballot.

     Charles Muhlenberg received his education in the excellent public schools
of Prussia. He came with his father to Somerset county in 1850. He commenced
life for himself as a common day laborer but soon removed to Fayette county,
Pa., where he purchased a small farm of twenty-eight acres which he cultivated
for twelve years. In 1884 he disposed of his land and bought his present farm of
sixty acres which is situated three miles east of Mt. Pleasant in a good farming
section of country. Mr. Muhlenberg has greatly improved his farm and is
successfully engaged in raising grain and stock. He is a democrat in politics
and a member and deacon of the Evangelical Lutheran church. In 1862 he enlisted
in Co. F., one hundred and forty-second reg. Pa. Vols., and served until the
close of the war. He participated in numerous engagements and skirmishes and
took part in the terrific battle of Fredericksburg. February 28, 1868, he united
in marriage with Lydia Boyer, a daughter of Samuel Boyer, who is a descendant of
the early settled and numerous Boyer family of Somerset county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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