Biography

02/11/1839 - 06/21/1906


ESHLEMAN, John B., a Representative from Lancaster County; born, February 11, 1839 in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pa.; teacher (1857-1892); justice of the peace (1 term); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1880; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882); elected, commissioner, Lancaster County (1893-1898); died, June 21, 1906 in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Ironville Methodist Church Cemetery, Ironville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.


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