Biography

10/04/1849 - 05/06/1907

COURTNEY, David Davis, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, October 4, 1849 in Safe Harbor, Lancaster County, Pa.; private, Company E, 195th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1865-1866, Civil War); engaged, mercantile business; fire chief, Elizabethtown; elected, council, Elizabethtown (1879-1880); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1880 and 1884; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882, 1886); passenger agent, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Harrisburg, 1882-1904; Philadelphia, 1904-1907); died, May 6, 1907 in Mount Penn, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.