Biography

05/30/1816 - 01/27/1885


GILDEA, Henry A., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, May 30, 1816 in Dauphin County, Pa.; cabinet maker; surgical instrument case maker; artificial limb maker; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1857 term; letter carrier, United States Postal Service, Philadelphia; employed, United States Customs House, Philadelphia; real estate assessor, Philadelphia; died, January 27, 1885 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 


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