Biography

03/09/1845 - 03/26/1921

DALE, James A., a Representative from York County, born, March 9, 1845 in Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pa.; private, Company F, 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia (1862, Civil War); clerk, United States Postal Service, Mechanicsburg (1861); clerk, drug store (1863-1868); co-owner, Dale & Hart Drug House, pharmaceutical store (1869-1921); president, York Match Company; served, State Fish Commission (8 years); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1909 and 1911 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1912); president, York County National Bank; president, York Hotel Company; president, York Opera House Association; balloonist; died, March 26, 1921 in York, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, York County, Pennsylvania.