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Curtin (ANDREW GREGG an American)

ANDREW GREGG, an American politician; born in Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1815. He studied law at Dickinson College, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. Entering politics, he be came secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania nia in 1854, governor in 1860, and again in 1863, being one of the most noted "war governors." In 1869 he was appointed minister to Russia. In 1873 he left the Republican party, and from 1881 to 1887 sat in Congress as a Democrat.

He died in Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 7, 1894.