April 5, 2024
ANDREW GREGG CURTAIN-GOVENOR PENNSYLVANIA-CDV-PHOTO-CIVIL WAR ERA-WEMYSS
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ANDREW GREGG CURTAIN-GOVENOR PENNSYLVANIA-CDV-PHOTO-CIVIL WAR ERA - original Philadelphia backmark replaced by paper label - W. C. Wemyss, Dealer in Photographic Books, &c. 575 Broadway, NY - approx 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches - corners clipped - edges trimmedAndrew Gregg Curtin (22Apr1815/1817-- 7Oct1894) was a U.S. lawyer and politician. He served as the Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War , helped defend his state during the Gettysburg Campaign, and led organization of the creation of the National Cemetery and the ceremony that included Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.Curtin was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Sources vary as to his birth date. Some list April 22, 1815; others list April 22, 1817. Curtin's gravestone uses the 1815 date. His parents were Roland Curtin, Sr., a wealthy Irish-born iron manufacturer from County Clare, and Jane (née Gregg) Curtin, the daughter of U.S. Senator Andrew Gregg. His father, with Miles Boggs, established the Eagle Ironworks at Curtin Village in 1810.Curtin's family was prominent in Pennsylvania politics and in the Civil War. He was the great-grandson of James Potter, the vice-president of Pennsylvania, and was the grandson of Andrew Gregg, also a prominent Pennsylvania politician. He was the uncle of John I. Gregg and cousin of David McMurtrie Gregg, both Union generals in the Civil
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