Biography

1807 - 03/23/1887


PANCOAST, Samuel S., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, 1807 in Salem County, NJ; carpenter and builder; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1860 term; reelected to the HouseĀ for the 1863 and 1865 terms and the 1864 term as a Union Republican; died, March 23, 1887 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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