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Gustavus A. Aschbach was born in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastatt Rastatt], Germany on March 3, 1826 <ref>Jordan et al. 1905, page 511</ref> | Gustavus A. Aschbach was born in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastatt Rastatt], Germany on March 3, 1826 <ref>Jordan et al. 1905, page 511</ref>. Aschbach arrived in Allentown, PA in 1854. He was repeatedly elected as city engineer of Allentown. In this role, he made many maps of the city <ref>Jordan et al. 1905, page 511</ref>. | ||
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 was disabled and died of related complications on April 17, 1875 <ref>Jordan et al. 1905, page 511</ref>. | |||
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Revision as of 19:13, 3 October 2018
Gustavus A. Aschbach was born in Rastatt, Germany on March 3, 1826 [1]. Aschbach arrived in Allentown, PA in 1854. He was repeatedly elected as city engineer of Allentown. In this role, he made many maps of the city [2].
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 was disabled and died of related complications on April 17, 1875 [3].
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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.