Biography

07/03/1856 - 03/25/1943


STUCK, Benjamin F., a Representative from Schuylkill County; born, July 3, 1856 in Hickory Corners, Northumberland County, Pa.; agent, Philadelphia and Reading and West Virginia Railroad Company; elected, school director, Tower City, Pa.; incorporator, Tower City Borough (1892); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1894; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1896); secretary, Franklin Saving Fund and Loan Corporation; district land agent and superintendent of the department of highways, Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company (PRCI Co.); director, Miners’ Deposit Bank; notary public; appointed, explosives licenser, Federal Bureau of Mines and Mining; appointed, justice of the peace, Tremont (1928-1943); vice president, Tremont National Bank; superintendent, Tremont Water and Gas Company; died, March 25, 1943 in Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.


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