Jacob Gish

Jacob Gish

Seal

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1805-1806 Representative Federalist
1806-1807 Representative Federalist
1807-1808 Representative Federalist
1808-1809 Representative Federalist
1809-1810 Representative Federalist
1824-1825 Representative Federalist
Counties Lancaster

Biography

12/02/1767 - 1846


GISH (GISCH), Jacob B., a Representative from Lancaster County; born, December 2, 1767 in Lancaster County, Pa.; engaged in industrial pursuits; farmer; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1802, 1803, 1804, 1811); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1805-1806, 1806-1807, 1807-1808, 1808-1809, 1809-1810 and 1824-1825 terms; died, 1846 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Tunnel Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 

 

Archival Collections

Gish family farm ledger, Collection 3998, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.


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