Biography

02/05/1853 - 07/10/1917


CHURCH, Samuel Wesley, a Representative from Allegheny County; born in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa., February 5, 1853; glasscutter; elected, common council, Pittsburgh; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1885 and 1887 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888); deputy coroner, Allegheny County (1902-1917); farmer; died, July 10, 1917 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, South Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.


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