Biography

10/05/1814 - 02/07/1896


ELLIOT, William, a Representative from Northumberland County; born, October 5, 1814 in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa.; farmer; engaged, mercantile business; appointed, weigh master, Northumberland County (1854-1855); supervisor, Pennsylvania Canal (1856-1861); enumerator, United States Census, Northumberland County (1860); coal operator; contractor; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1880; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882); died, February 7, 1896 in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Riverview Cemetery; Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.


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