Biography

05/04/1849 - 04/13/1918


BLACKBURN, George Plumer, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, May 4, 1849 in Sewickley Township, Westmoreland County, Pa.; attended, Mount Union College; teacher (10 years); farmer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1889 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1891 term; clerk, Office of Pennsylvania Auditor General; died, April 13, 1918 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, West Newton Cemetery, West Newton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.


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