Biography

05/11/1854 - 05/04/1902

HERSH, McClellan, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, May 11, 1854 in New Oxford, Adams County, Pa.; graduated, Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College), 1870; machinist; general agent, People’s Passenger Railway Company; employed, city gas office, Philadelphia; general manager, Willow Grove Park; deputy collector, United States Internal Revenue Service, Philadelphia; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1898; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1900); special solicitor, Union Traction Company; engaged, real estate; died, May 4, 1902 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, New Oxford Cemetery, New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania.