CIVIL WAR PA CONGRESSMAN READING PENNSYLVANIA BANKER ANCONA AUTOGRAPH SIGNED VF!

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SYDENHAM ELNATHAN ANCONA
(1824 – 1913)
CIVIL WAR US DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM READING, PENNSYLVANIA 1861-1867
&
PA BANKER and INSURANCE EXECUTIVE.
In 1912 Ancona was tendered a reception on the floor of the United States House of Representatives, it being stated at the time that he was the last surviving Member of the Thirty-seventh Civil War Congress which assembled at the extraordinary session called by Abraham Lincoln on July 4, 1861
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HERE’S ANCONA’S CIVIL WAR ERA SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19
th
CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED:
“S. E. Ancona,
Reading, Pa.~”
The document measures 8” x 2½” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION.
A FINE ADDITION TO YOUR CIVIL WAR PENNSYLVANIA POLITICAL HISTORY AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE
SYDENHAM ELNATHAN ANCONA
Sydenham Elnathan Ancona
(November 20, 1824 – June 20, 1913) was a
Democratic
member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from
Pennsylvania
.
Ancona was born near
Lititz, Pennsylvania
. He moved to
Berks County, Pennsylvania
, in 1826 with his parents, who settled near
Sculls Hill, Pennsylvania
. He attended public and private schools, and taught school. He moved in 1856 to
Reading, Pennsylvania
, where he entered the employ of the
Reading Company
. He served as a member of the board of education.
Ancona was elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-seventh
,
Thirty-eighth
, and
Thirty-ninth
Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1866
.
He became engaged in the trust, fire-insurance, and relief-association businesses in Reading. He was a delegate to the
1880 Democratic National Convention
at
Cincinnati, Ohio
.
During a visit to the Capitol at
Washington, D.C.
, in 1912 he was tendered a reception on the floor of the House of Representatives, because he was at the time the last surviving Member of the Thirty-seventh Congress which had been assembled at the extraordinary session called by
Abraham Lincoln
on July 4, 1861.
Ancona was engaged in banking and in the insurance business until his death in Reading in 1913. Interment in Reading's
Charles Evans Cemetery
.
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