Biography

08/20/1839 - 08/10/1907

Charles Souders Vandegrift, Jr (D10) Bucks County 1883-1886 

Early Life: 

Charles Souders Vandegrift, Jr., born August 20, 1839, Bensalem Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania;   son of Alfred and Catherine Gibbs Vandegrift; Captain Alden Partridge’s Military School, China Hall, Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; country store, lumber merchant, estate settlement, public business; married, Mary Hannah Rowland, son, Frederic Beasley; died pneumonia, vascular disease, August 10, 1907 (aged 67) Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, interment, Vandegrift Cemetery, Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. 

Early Career:

Employment, uncle and namesake, Charles S. Vandegrift, Sr., country store at Eddington, clerk and proprietor, 1873, sold the store; opened, lumber yard, Eddington, 1890, retired; employed, estate settlement and public business. 

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

President, Good Roads Association of Bensalem Township; director, Farmers’ and Mechanics Mutual Insurance Company of Bucks and Philadelphia Counties; president, Doylestown Publishing Company 1900-1904; treasurer and trustee, Vandegrift Burial Ground at Cornwells; past master of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and St. Johns Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar, of Philadelphia 

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 10th district, Bucks County, 1882-1886, committee assignments, Agriculture, Appropriations, Canals and Inland Navigation, Congressional Apportionment, New Counties and County Seats, Retrenchment and Reform. 

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members "V"". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1885). Smull, W.P., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 844, 849-851, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 814.

Charles S Vandegrift (1839-1907) - Find a Grave Memorial