Biography

01/25/1846 - 09/24/1929

SMITH, Robert H., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, January 25, 1846 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; served, unassigned Company, 117th Regiment, 13th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry (1864, Civil War); private, Company D, 213th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1865, Civil War); employed, coining department, United States Mint, Department of Treasury, Philadelphia; member, 39th Ward Executive Committee; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1904 and 1906; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1908); Inspector, Philadelphia; employed, tipstaff and court officer, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia; died, September 24, 1929 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.