Biography

03/09/1821 - 09/05/1899

BAILEY, Charles Lukens, a Representative from Dauphin County; born, March 9, 1821 in London Grove Township, Chester County, Pa.; attended, Friend’s School at Westtown; clerk, drug store; clerk, Lukens’ Mill, boilerplate manufacturing; clerk, Pine Iron Works; proprietor, Old Central Iron Works; proprietor, Nail Works at Fairview; treasurer and manager, Pottstown Iron Company; proprietor, Chesapeake Nail Works; elected, select council, Harrisburg (1877-1878); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); trustee, Pennsylvania Insane Hospital, Harrisburg; died, September, 5, 1899 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.