Biography

07/27/1830 - 02/07/1882

SELLER, Mahlon S., a Representative from Montgomery County; born, July 27, 1830 in Sellersville, Bucks County, Pa.; engaged, mercantile business; journalist; editor, Lansdale Reporter (1877-1878); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1878; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1880); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House, Special Election (1881); proprietor and editor, The Central News (1881-1882); died, February 7, 1882 in Lansdale, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Boehm Cemetery, Blue Bell, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.