Biography

10/15/1831 - 10/27/1900

ETTLA, George H., a Representative from Lancaster County, born, October 15, 1831 in Hummelstown, Dauphin County, Pa.; captain, Company B, 215th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1865, Civil War); deputy collector, Union Canal Company; engaged, lumber and insurance business; engaged in insurance business; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican to serve the 1875, 1876, 1877 and 1878 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1879 term; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Marietta, Pa. (1883-1885); died, October 27, 1900 in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Marietta Cemetery, Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.