Biography

05/14/1832 - 01/27/1889


LANDIS, Joseph H., a Representative from Dauphin County; born, May 14, 1832 in Hummelstown, Dauphin County, Pa.; attended, Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College); farmer; bookkeeper and general superintendent, Cameron Furnace, Middletown; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); died, January 27, 1889 in Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.


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