Biography

07/02/1852 - 02/25/1932

HOSKINS, Francis L., a Representative from Erie County; born in Pierpont, Ashtabula County, Oh., July 2, 1852; merchant (1877); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1898 and 1900; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1902); proprietor and builder, Northwestern Pennsylvania Railroad; trustee, Edinboro State Teachers College (now Pennsylvania Western University, Edinboro); died, February 25, 1932 in Conneaut, Ashtabula County, Ohio; interred, Evergreen Cemetery, Pierpont, Ashtabula County, Ohio.