Simon Bolivar Elliott

Simon Bolivar Elliott

Member

Photo credit:

"Elliott Hall."  History of Campus Buildings. www.mansfield.edu

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1861 Representative Republican
1862 Representative Republican
Counties Potter, Tioga

Biography

10/01/1830 - 06/18/1917


ELLIOTT, Simon Bolivar, a Representative from Potter and Tioga Counties; born, October 1, 1830 in Rome, Bradford County, Pa.; attended, Wellsboro Academy; stone mason; architect; elected, council recording secretary, Mansfield, Pa.; elected, burgess, Mansfield (1859-1860); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1861 and 1862 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1863 term; gubernatorial appointee, Pennsylvania State Forestry Commission (1904-1917); died, June 18, 1917 in Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania; interred, Reynoldsville Cemetery, Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. 

 

Bibliography

Elliott, Simon B. The Important Timber Trees of the United States: A Manual of Practical Forestry.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1912.

 


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