Biography

11/16/1820 - 05/16/1881


SMITH, Elijah Penn, a Representative from Berks County; born, November 16, 1820 in Pennsylvania; lumber merchant; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1859 and 1860; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1861); died, May 16, 1881 in Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Zions Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery, Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pennsylvania.


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