Robert Chadwick (politician)

Robert M. Chadwick (November 23, 1833 – April 21, 1902) was an English American politician who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1881 to 1888.

He was educated in the public schools of Upland and then learned the wheelwright trade in Frankford, Pennsylvania.

[2] He served as a private in Company I of the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment (known as the Collis Zouaves) of the Union Army from 1862 to 1865 during the American Civil War.

[3] In 1866, he moved to Chester, Pennsylvania and established a wagon factory and blacksmith shop at the corner of Third and Fulton Streets.

Chadwick was a member of the board of trustees of the Soldiers' Home at Erie, Pennsylvania for two years.