Biography

01/05/1861 - 06/29/1934

COYNE, Francis R., a Representative from Lackawanna County; born, January 5, 1861 in Sherburn Hill, Durham County, England; teacher; supervising principal, Old Forge schools; elected, justice of the peace, Old Forge; elected, tax collector, Old Forge; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); proprietor, drug store (25 years); superintendent, Old Forge schools (1900-1925); died, June 29, 1934 in Old Forge, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Joseph’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, Minooka, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.