Biography

10/31/1829 - 01/12/1915

JARECKI, Gustav, a Representative from Erie County; born, October 31, 1829 in Posen, County Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (now Poznan, Poland); watch-maker and jeweler (1857-1869); engaged, banking business; school director, Erie (1858-1869); presidential appointee, United States Consul at Augsburg, Bavaria (1869-1872); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1879 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1881 term; president, Jarecki Chemical Works (1881); died, January 12, 1915 in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio; interred, Oakland Cemetery, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio.