Biography

09/19/1862 - 11/10/1944

DRASE, Henry Ellsworth, a Representative from Berks County; born in Reading, Berks County, Pa., September 19, 1862; machinist, Philadelphia and Reading Railway Locomotive Works; letter carrier, United States Postal Service (4 years); reporter, Reading Herald; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1899 and 1901 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House in the 1902 General election; died, November 10, 1944 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.