Biography

01/21/1849 - 10/01/1930

Private Charles P. Devlin (D3) Philadelphia County, 1889-1890  

Early Life: 

Private Charles P. Devlin,  born January 21, 1849, old Kensington District, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, son of Hugh and Mary (Toner) Devlin; educated, public schools; private, Civil War 1861-1865; occupation malster, hotelier; school board; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate; married, Elizabeth Cavanaugh, died 1893; Mary F. Delaney, 1893; died, pneumonia, October 1, 1930, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

 Early Career:

Enlisted, drummer, August 3, 1861, age 12 years and 8 months, Company F, 73rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, mother, objected his enlistment; participated some big battles, Cross Keys; 2d Bull Run; Fredericksburg; Mud March; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Tennessee Campaign; Chattanooga; Missionary Ridge (where he was one of ninety to survive in a regiment of 600 soldiers); honorably discharged December 31, 1863; reenlisted, veteran private, same company and regiment; January 1864; Atlanta Campaign; took part in Sherman’s March to the Sea; Raleigh; and returned to Washington where he mustered out on July 14, 1865.

Tavern owner, 20th Ward; operated hotel, 11th Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, 25 years; after Senate, moved, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1910, purchased, historic “Trappe Hotel.”  

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Member, Meade Post 1, Grand Army of the Republic; member, Encampment No.2 Union Veteran Legion.  

Pennsylvania Politics:

Served several terms, secretary seventeen ward, sectional school board;

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 3^rd district, Philadelphia County, 1889-1890; member, Accounts, Congressional Apportionment, Compare Bills, Pension and Gratuities, Public Buildings and Vice and Immorality Committees. Removed, Senate, May 1889, voting irregularities, no intentional fraud, Francis Osbourne seated.   

Cited:

Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1890) Cochran, T. B., Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 656, 687, 693-695.