Biography

03/14/1833 - 05/26/1914

EWING, John, a Representative from Beaver and Washington Counties; born, March 14, 1833 in Washington County, Pa.; graduated, Washington College (now Washington and Jefferson College), 1851; lieutenant colonel, 155th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1865, Civil War); manger, Sligo Furnaces; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1867 and 1868 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1869 term; trustee, Curry University; president, Canonsburg Iron Company; died, May 26, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.