Biography

07/08/1830 - 01/14/1911

SHILLITO, John Lawrence, a Representative from York County; born, July 8, 1830 in Peters Township, Franklin County, Pa.; second lieutenant, Company H, 87th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1862, Civil War); saddler; auctioneer; farmer; president, board of supervisors, Warrington Township; elected, Democratic State Convention (1885, chair 1895); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1888 and 1890; appointed, Pennsylvania State Road Commission (1890); not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); died, January 14, 1911 in Warrington Township, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Warrington Friends Meeting House Cemetery, Wellsville, York County, Pennsylvania.