![]() ![]() Photo credit: Illus. and Bio: J. Simpson
|
Sessions
|
Major Robert Bruce (R. Bruce) Petrikin (D21) Blair, Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry 1871-1872 (D22) Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin Counties 1873-1874
Early Life:
Major Robert Bruce (R. Bruce) Petrikin, born, September 12, 1826, Muncie, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; son of William A. and Margaret Montgomery Petrikin; educated, Reverend Doctor Shedden Academy, McEwensville, Pennsylvania; Lafayette College, Easton, 1846; studied law under Andrew Porter Wilson (i), Huntingdon, 1847; Huntingdon bar, 1849; enlisted, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Major, Civil War, 1861: attorney; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1870-1873; married Mary Pohl, children, Robert Bruce, two years; Donald, nineteen; Harry William (his law partner; Margaret M., wife of Joseph H. Rhodes, Burlington, New Jersey; Mary E.; and Malcolm; (ii) Died, throat cancer, Medico-Chirurgical College and Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1895. Interment unknown. (iii)
Early Career:
Enlisted, Fifth Infantry, elected Major, April 20, 1861, for three-month service. The 5th was deployed to guard Washington, encamped at Alexandria, Virginia. He served until the outset of 1st Manassas; returned to Harrisburg; and mustered out with the regiment on July 25, 1861. (iv)(v)
Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:
Member, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), or simply as the Loyal Legion
Pennsylvania Politics:
Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1864, 17th district (vi)
Elected, Democrat Pennsylvania State Senate, 21st district Blair, Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin, Perry Counties 1871-1872, Compare Bills, Estates and Escheats, Judiciary General, Military Affairs and Public Printing Committees.
Elected, Democrat Pennsylvania State Senate, 22nd district Centre, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin Counties, 1873-1874; member, Compare Bills, Estates and Escheats, Judiciary Local and Vice and Immorality, Committees.
Cited:
Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1871) Smull, J.A., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, page 428, 430, and 436-438.
Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1873) Smull, J.A., Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, page 515, 517, and 522-524.