Biography

07/18/1843 - 08/14/1898


O’LENIHAN, Dennis, a Representative from Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties; born, July 18, 1843 in Mill Street, County Cork, Ireland; private, Company B, 62nd Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865, Civil War); carpenter; miner; elected as a National Greenbacker to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); died, August 14, 1898 in Archbald, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.


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