Biography

1818 - 07/12/1897


ARTHUR, Abraham, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, circa 1818 in Pennsylvania; farmer; conductor, Pennsylvania Railroad; letter carrier, United States Postal Service, Philadelphia; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1857 and 1858 terms; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House for the 1859 term; time keeper, Pennsylvania Railroad; clerk; died, July 12, 1897 in Ashbourne, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. 


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