Biography

1823 - 05/02/1894


DORMER, John R., a Representative from Schuylkill County; born, 1823 in Ireland; hotel keeper, East Norwegian Township, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1865 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1866 term; engaged, coal business; contractor; died, May 2, 1894 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Patrick’s Cemetery Number 2, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.


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