People & Places Charles Rawn Mentions or Would Have Seen*

*Few images predating Rawn's 1865 death exist. Photos courtesy Dauphin County Historical Society.

John Calvin Rawn and Mrs. Torrington

John Calvin Rawn and Mrs. Torrington

From "Family Albums of Harrisburg": Photographed in their youth, Mr. Rawn, a civil engineer, and Mrs. William J. Torrington (Frances C. Rawn), were the children of Charles C. P. Rawn and Frances Peacock Clendenin, of this city (Harrisburg). Born in 1849, Mrs. Torrington was an active member of Pine Street Presbyterian Church, being especially interested in the missionary organizations. Mr. Rawn had two sons, Edward Van Ness Rawn and Andrew Bryson Rawn, both of Huntingdon, West Virginia. Mrs. Torrington had a son and a daughter, William J. Torrington, of Cumberland, Maryland, and Mrs. Carl W. Davis (Ethel Torrington), of River Road.

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