Isaac Wayne
Isaac Wayne | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Died | October 25, 1852 (aged 79–80) |
| Resting place | St. David's Episcopal Church, Radnor, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Party | Federalist Party |
| Relatives | Anthony Wayne (father) Isaac Wayne (grandfather) Samuel Van Leer (uncle) |
| Education | Dickinson College |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service | |
| Years of service | 1812-1823 |
| Rank | |
| Battles/wars | War of 1812 |
Isaac Wayne (1772 – October 25, 1852) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Federalist Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district from 1823 to 1825. He previously served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and in 1806, and served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1807 to 1810.
He was the son of the American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne, and grandson of Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly member Isaac Wayne.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Wayne was born in 1772[1] at Waynesborough, the family estate in Easttown Township, Pennsylvania[2] to American Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne and Mary Penrose Wayne.[3] He graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1792,[3] then studied law and was admitted to the Chester County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1795. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and 1806,[1] and served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1807 to 1810.[4]
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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- Biographical Memoir of Major General Anthony Wayne, The Casket No. 5, pages 190-203, Philadelphia, May 1829
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Sources
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- 1772 births
- 1852 deaths
- 19th-century American lawyers
- 19th-century American male writers
- American militia officers
- American militiamen in the War of 1812
- Burials at St. David's Episcopal Church (Radnor, Pennsylvania)
- Federalist Party United States representatives from Pennsylvania
- Members of the American Philosophical Society
- Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Military personnel from Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania lawyers
- Pennsylvania state senators
- People from Paoli, Pennsylvania
- 19th-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
- 19th-century United States representatives