Biography

10/16/1870 - 11/17/1954

KUHNS, Ellsworth G.M., a Representative from Lehigh County; born in Lower Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Pa., October 16, 1870; attended, Keystone State Normal School (now Kutztown University of Pennsylvania); teacher (9 years); proprietor, East Texas Hotel (15 years); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1911 and 1913 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1915 term; elected, chief clerk to the commissioners, Lehigh County (1920-1924, 1932-1936); died, November 17, 1954 in Maxatawney Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.