Biography

11/08/1831 - 04/30/1895

DAVIS, Lewis H., a Representative from Montgomery County; born, November 8, 1831 in West Vincent Township, Chester County, Pa.; engaged, Montgomery Ledger (printer 1854-1857; editor, 1854-1873; publisher, 1855-1873); editor and publisher, Daily Pottstown Ledger (1873-1895); burgess, Pottstown; justice of the peace, Montgomery County; state assessor of bank stock, Montgomery County; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1882; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1884); died, April 30, 1895 in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Edgewood Cemetery, Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.