Biography

10/15/1824 - 12/19/1888

McKIBBIN, Dr. David J., a Representative from Schuylkill County; born, October 15, 1824 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa.; M.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; surgeon, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); appointed, brigade surgeon, Infantry Regiment, United States Volunteers Medical Staff (1861-1865, Civil War); physician; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1876 and 1877; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1878); died, December 19, 1888 in Ashland, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Middletown Cemetery, Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.