Biography

04/17/1830 - 05/30/1906


DEMUTH, Henry Cornelius, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, April 17, 1830 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.; tobacconist; elected, common council, Lancaster (1869-1879); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1878; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1880); appointed, Pennsylvania State Fish Commission (17 years); died, May 30, 1906 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.


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