First Lieutenant Bemus, George H., Co. F, 9th Reg't., P.R.V.C.
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First Lieutenant George H. Bemus,
Co. F, 9th Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves (Seated on the left with other men affiliated with the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. This photograph was taken sometime between 1865 and 1867. Photo Courtesy of the PA Reserve Volunteer Corps Historical Society |
Colonel George Hamlin Bemus was born 01 May 1831 in Pine Grove, Pa., and died 28 Dec 1896 in Corry, Pa. He married Juliana Prendergast Bemus 09 May 1854, daughter of Daniel Bemus and Jane Brooks. She was born 08 May 1836.
He was educated at the Fredonia Academy; subsequently studied law with the Hon. Madison Burnell at Jamestown, N.Y. and admitted to practice in Nov. 1853. He practiced in Jamestown, N.Y., Meadville, Penn. and in Wenona, Wis. In the latter town, he was elected Judge of Probate and was also a Director in the Transit R.R. Co. In April 1861, he enlisted in a company formed at Meadville, Penn. and was elected 2d Lieut. His company was attached to the 9th Penn. Reserves and served in the army of the Potomac. He served as Aide-de-camp to Genrls. Seymour and C.F. Jackson, and was in the seven days fighting before Richmond; and in the Battles of South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg, in the latter he was seriously wounded, having to leave the Army. Later on he raised a company which was attached to the 58th Penn Militia, of which he was made Colonel. His Regiment took part in the capture of Genrl. John H. Morgan, and he was the officer who had charge of the prisoner. He resigned from the Army in 1863, and in 1864-65 was elected to the Penn. Legislature. He afterwards practiced law in New York City, Petrotia, Penn. and Allegheny Co. N.Y. Owing to disabilities incurred in the army he has of late not been engaged in active business.1
- 1. The Bemis History and Genealogy" by Colonel Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper,1900, published San Francisco, California, copies in the Library of Congress.