Biography

1777 - 05/21/1831


GRIMLER, Benjamin, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, 1777; lieutenant, Pennsylvania Militia (War 1812); printer (1804-1831); publisher, Wahre Americaner (True American); unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Lancaster County (1815); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1818); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1824-1825 term; died, May 21, 1831 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Trinity Lutheran Churchyard, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 


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