Biography

03/18/1828 - 09/28/1910

LANE, Franklin Hamlin, a Representative from Huntingdon County; born, March 18, 1828 in Pennsylvania; commander, fourth brigade, Fourteenth Division, Pennsylvania Militia (1859); first lieutenant, Company F, 125th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); manufacturer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1872 and 1873 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1874 term; unsuccessful Prohibition Party candidate, governor, Pennsylvania (1878); proprietor, grocery store; died, September 28, 1910 in Queens, Queens County, New York; interred, Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.