Biography

02/11/1833 - 01/20/1910

ELLSWORTH, Frederick Watson, a Representative from Crawford County; born, February 11, 1833 in Erie County, Pa.; lieutenant, Company A, 56th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1863, Civil War); constable, Conneautville; deputy sheriff, Meadville; chief of police, Meadville; elected, sheriff, Crawford County (1869-1872); president, The Peoples' Savings Bank, Meadville (1872); distillery gauger; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1883 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1885 term; court crier, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Crawford County; died, January 20, 1910 in Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.