Biography

06/11/1842 - 08/31/1903

STRINE, Eli Ziegler, a Representative from York County; born, June 11, 1842 in Strinestown, York County, Pa.; captain, Company A, 8th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard (1863-1893, Civil War; prisoner of war, 1863); farmer; engaged in the mercantile business (1862-1872); lawyer (1873-1903); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1887 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888); reelected to the House for the 1903 term; died while in office, August 31, 1903 in York, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, York County, Pennsylvania.