Biography

03/30/1877 - 08/27/1946

MERVINE, Wade Hampton, a Representative from Monroe County; born in Tunkhannock Township, Monroe County, Pa., March 30, 1877; operator, saw mill and lumber business; owner and operator, Pocono Bottling Works; owner and operator, Christmas tree business; elected, school director, Tunkhannock Township; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1917 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1919 term; died, August 27, 1946 in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; interred, Stroudsburg Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.