Hartman Bache
(1798-1872)
BIRTH
September 3, 1798
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.
DEATH
October 8, 1872
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER
Benjamin Franklin Bache
(1769-1798)
MOTHER
Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache
(1770-1836)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Hartman Bache was a U.S. Army engineer born in Philadelphia in 1798, a son of Benjamin Franklin Bache and a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin. A West Point graduate, he worked on roads, canals, defenses and lighthouses. He worked on Brandywine Shoal and Pacific Coast light stations; his drawings preserve evidence of their designs. He served during the Civil War, received a brevet brigadier general’s rank in 1865 and retired in 1867. He died in 1872.
EARLY LIFE
Hartman Bache was born on Sep 3, 1798 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Hartman Bache with work or public activity as a merchant, soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Hartman Bache died on Oct 8, 1872 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Hartman Bache died on Oct 8, 1872. A West Point graduate, he worked on roads, canals, defenses and lighthouses. He served during the Civil War, received a brevet brigadier general’s rank in 1865 and retired in 1867. He was brevetted to brigadier general in March 1865, and retired in March 1867. Hartman Bache served during the Civil War, received a brevet brigadier general’s rank in 1865 and retired in 1867. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Hartman Bache, the Army engineer and Benjamin Franklin Bache’s son. Tagg and Smith concern his father and family; the other works provide military and engineering context. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy — George W. Cullum. [Military biographical reference; collected work] Find on Amazon
2. Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Philadelphia Aurora — James Tagg. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
3. Franklin and Bache: Envisioning the Enlightened Republic — Jeffery A. Smith. [Related family and intellectual biography] Find on Amazon
4. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A History — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of History. [Related institutional and collective military history] Find on Amazon
5. America’s Lighthouses: An Illustrated History — Francis Ross Holland Jr. [Related engineering and lighthouse history] Find on Amazon
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