Biography

01/11/1830 - 12/01/1906

GASKILL, Thomas Ellwood, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, January 11, 1830 in Pennsylvania; apprentice, mercantile business; appointed, superintendent, City Tobacco Warehouse; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1861 and 1862 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1863 term; member, school board, Philadelphia; engaged, insurance business; member, Democratic State Committee; elected, school director, Philadelphia; died, December 1, 1906 in Palmyra, Burlington County, New Jersey; interred, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.