Biography

12/19/1845 - 03/21/1914

ORR, Thomas, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, December 19, 1845 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, Girard College, 1861; private, 192nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864, Civil War); private, Company C, 214th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1865-1866, Civil War); chief permit clerk, Water Department, Philadelphia; member, Delaware Fire Company; member, 7th Ward Republican Executive Committee; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1900; resigned from the House, January 3, 1902; real estate assessor, Philadelphia (1902-1914); died, March 21, 1914 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.