Gustavus A. Aschbach (1826-1875)

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Gustavus A. Aschbach was born in Rastatt, Germany on March 3, 1826 [1]. Aschbach arrived in Allentown, PA in 1854[2]. He was repeatedly elected as city engineer of Allentown. In this role, he made many maps of the city[3]. He was responsible for the 1865 Aschbach Map of Lehigh County[4].

Aschbach served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He built fortifications in Ohio and Kentucky under Generals Simpson and Burnside. As a result of exposure during this time, he became disabled and died of related complications on April 17, 1875 [5] [6].

Notes

  1. ↑ Jordan et al. 1905, 511
  2. ↑ Roberts et al. 1914, 21
  3. ↑ Jordan et al. 1905, 511
  4. ↑ Roberts et al. 1914, 21
  5. ↑ Jordan et al. 1905, 511
  6. ↑ Roberts et al. 1914, 21

References

  • Jordan, John Woolf, Edgar Moore Green, and George Taylor Ettinger. 1905. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Lewis Publishing Company. http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC7578932.
  • Roberts, Charles Rhoads, John Baer Stoudt, Thomas H. Krick, and William J. Dietrich. 1914. History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Its Families. Vol. II. Allentown, PA.: Lehigh Valley publishing Company, Limited. http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC362413.
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