Biography

12/02/1817 - 12/17/1874


GWIN, James Lindsay, a Representatives from Blair and Huntingdon Counties; born, December 2, 1817 in Logan Township, Blair County, Pa.; elected, auditor, Blair County (1848); surveyor, Blair County (1850-1872); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1853 and 1854 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1855 term; appointed, associate judge, Blair County (1855); elected, school director, Logan Township (1860); died, December 17, 1874 in Logan Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania.


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