Wolverton, Simon P
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 1837, in Rush township, Pa. In 1862 he raised a company of emergency men, of which he was made captain. and served in the eighteenth regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers. In 1863 he was chosen captain of company F, thirty-sixth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer In 1878 he was elected to the state senate, and was re-elected in 1880 and 1884, when he declined further nomination to that office. In 1884 he was nominated for United States senator by the democrats of both houses, and was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat. He declined further nomination for congress.