Biography

03/31/1873 - 05/14/1940


NEARY, Daniel J., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, March 31, 1873 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; professional boxer (1896-1898); building contractor; automobile business; member, 7th Ward Republican Committee; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1917 and 1919 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1920); tipstaff, Quarter Sessions Court, Philadelphia (23 years); died, May 14, 1940 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Cross Cemetery, Yeadon, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
 


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