Biography

08/16/1821 - 04/02/1904

GAMMELL, Archibald B., a Representative from Wayne County; born, August 16, 1821 in Barnet, Caledonia County, Vt.; farmer; teacher; elected, auditor, Wayne County (1867-1868); elected, jury commissioner, Wayne County (1870-1874); justice of the peace; hotel proprietor; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); elected, chair, Democratic County Convention (1881); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Bethany, Pa. (1885-1887); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1896); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1898); director, Wayne County Fair Association; died, April 2, 1904 in Bethany, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Glen Dyberry Cemetery, Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.