Biography

08/28/1830 - 06/04/1912

SUMMY, Aaron Hostetter, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, August 28, 1830 in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pa.; clerk, United States War Department, Washington, DC (1861, Civil War); state marshal, Lancaster County, United States Civil War Draft (1863); cigarette maker; storekeeper and distillery gauger; engaged, lumber and coal business (1852-1860); farmer (1861-1902); proprietor, Abbeville Mills (1866-1902); school director, Marietta; elected, council, Marietta; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1868; reelected to the House in 1874 and 1875; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1876); died, June 4, 1912 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Landisville Mennonite Cemetery, Landisville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.