Biography

04/27/1836 - 04/10/1899

RAMSEY, James Duncan, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, April 27, 1836 in Fredericksburg, Wayne County, Oh.; private, unattached, 101st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1863-1865, Civil War); elected, burgess, Uniontown (1866-1867); attorney-at-law (1869-1893); newspaper reporter (5 years); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1873 term; died, April 10, 1899 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania.