Biography

01/18/1847 - 1896

KEMPER, John S., a Representative from Lancaster; born, January 18, 1847 in Akron, Lancaster County, Pa.; engaged, milling; farmer; member, Republican County Committee (4 years); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1879); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1884 and 1886; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888); elected, delegate, Republican State Convention (1893); died, 1896 in Pennsylvania; interred, Akron Lutheran Cemetery, Akron, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.