Biography

09/16/1847 - 10/27/1920

Brigadier General Horace Leander Haldeman (R17) Lebanon and Lancaster (Part) Counties 1917-1920

Early Life: 

Brigadier General Horace Leander Haldeman, born September 16, 1847, Locust Grove, Conoy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; son of Major Cyrus Summerfield and Elizabeth Stehman Breneman; attended public and private schools, Philadelphia; captain, Civil War, 1863-1865; engaged, Pig Iron Manufacturing; appointed, staffs Pennsylvania Governors, 1903-1915; commissioned, Governor Samuel W. Penneypacker, Assistant Commissary General of Substance, Appointed, Commissary General of Substance, 1903-1909; retired, Brigadier General Pennsylvania National Guard, 1909; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1917-1920; married, Emma Louisa Jones, daughter, Maude Haldeman; died, October 27, 1920 (73 years, 41 days), in office of Senate, stroke of paralysis, at home, Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interment, Marietta Cemetery, Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 

Early Career:

Enlisted, 1863 1st Lieutenant, Company H, 20th Volunteer Cavalry, 181st Regiment., Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; promoted Captain, Company I; mustered out in Harrisburg June 7, 1864; reenlisted, fought in many campaigns, destroyed, Virginia Central Railroad, mustered out, July 1865, Harrisburg. 

Passenger department, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1868-1872, Pig Iron manufacturing, E. Halderman and Company, Chickies, Lancaster County, 1872-1898; President, Pulaski Iron Company of Virginia, Philadelphia office, business sold, resigned (health) 1898-1920.

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

Charter member, Lieutenant William H Childs Post, Troop 26, Grand Army of Republic of Marietta; member, American Institute of Mining Engineers, American Iron and Steel Institute, Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, American Foundrymen’s Association, Philadelphia Foundrymen’s Association and American Society of Testing Materials. 

Pennsylvania Politics:   

Appointed, staffs Governors Samuel W. Penneypacker, Edwin S. Stuart and John K. Tener, 1903-1915. 

Commissioned, Governor Samuel W. Penneypacker, Assistant Commissary General of Substance, Appointed, Commissary General of Substance, 1903-1909; retired, Brigadier General Pennsylvania National Guard.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 17th district, Lebanon and Lancaster (Part) Counties, 1917-1920; committee assignments, Appropriations, Corporations, Education, Federal Relations, Forestry, Judicial Apportionment, Library, Military Affairs, Pension and Gratuities, Public Health and Sanitation;executive committee member, Soldiers' Orphan School Commission; member, Commission for the Erection of a Statue or Memorial In Memory Of General George Gordon Meade at Washington, D.C.; died in office of the Senate as an incumbent candidate, October 27, 1920. Cleon Berntheizel elected, December 21, 1920.

Cited: 

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

The Pennsylvania Manual, (1920). Miller, H.P., (Compiler). Baker, W.H., (Assistant Compiler). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 137, 149, 1119, 1131, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 1098.

Cox, Harold. Senate1790-1869 (wilkes.edu) . Wilkes University Election Statistics Project.  Wilkes University.

Horace Leander Haldeman (1847-1920) - Find a Grave Memorial