Isaac Wayne
Isaac Wayne | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania | |
In office March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825 | |
Constituency | 4th district (1823-1825) |
Pennsylvania State Senate | |
In office 1807 to 1810 | |
Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
In office 1799 to 1801 1806 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1772 |
Education | Dickinson College |
Military service | |
Branch/service | U.S. Army |
Years of service | 1812-1823 |
Rank | Colonel |
Battles/wars | War of 1812 |
Isaac Wayne (1772 – October 25, 1852) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a
He was the son of the American Revolutionary War General
Biography
Wayne was born in 1772
During the War of 1812, Wayne was captain of a troop of Pennsylvania Horse Cavalry, raised and equipped by himself, and was subsequently colonel of the Second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.[1]
Wayne unsuccessfully ran as a Federalist candidate for governor in 1814, but was elected to the Eighteenth Congress.[1]
Personal life
On August 25, 1802, Wayne married Elizabeth Smith and together they had five children.[3]
In 1809, he traveled to Fort Presque Isle to disinter his father from his burial site there. The body was in surprisingly good shape and since no embalming was available at the time, the flesh was boiled off the bones and re-buried at Fort Presque Isle. He then transported his father's bones 300 miles East across Pennsylvania and reinterred them in St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.[5]
In 1829, Wayne published a memoir of his father and his military career in The Casket.[6]
In 1840, Wayne was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society.[7]
Death and interment
Wayne died at the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1852.[8] He was buried in the family plot[3] at St. David's Episcopal Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania.[9]
Bibliography
- Biographical Memoir of Major General Anthony Wayne, The Casket No. 5, pages 190-203, Philadelphia, May 1829
Citations
- ^ a b c d "Wayne, Isaac 1772-1852". www.bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Director of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
- ^ Eberlein, Harold Donaldson; Lippincott, Horace Mather (1912). The Colonial Homes of Philadelphia and its Neighborhood. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. p. 181. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Isaac Wayne (1772-1852)". www.archives.dickinson.edu. Archives & Special Collections at Dickinson College. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ^ "Isaac Wayne Biography". www.legis.state.pa.us. Pennsylvania State Senate. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ISBN 9781501152719. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
- ^ Leach, Josiah Granville (1903). History of the Penrose Family of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Drexel Biddle Publisher. p. 59. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 9, 2021.
- ^ "Anthony and Mary (Penrose) Wayne Family Bible". www.genealogycenter.info. ACPL Genealogy Center. Retrieved July 13, 2022.
- ^ The History of Old St. David's Church Radnor, Delaware County, Pennsylvania With a Complete Alphabetical List of Wardens and Vestrymen, and of the Interments in the Graveyard 1700-1906. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company. 1907. p. 194. Retrieved July 13, 2022.