Biography

07/24/1834 - 06/26/1902

KAUFFMAN, William M., a Representative from Lebanon County; born, July 24, 1834 in Richmond Township, Berks County, Pa.; attended, West Chester Academy; private, Company G, 42nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1863, Civil War); clerk, Leesport Furnace; proprietor, Mount Penn Furnace; proprietor, Sheridan Furnaces; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1873; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1874); manager, Sun Life Insurance Company; died, June 26, 1902 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.