Biography

04/17/1812 - 02/27/1879

GILLMORE, George F., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, April 17, 1812 in Jaffrey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire; school teacher; instructor, Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh); attorney-at-law (1840-1879); owner, editor and publisher, Pittsburgh Morning Post (1853-1859); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to serve the 1853 term; trustee, Dollar Savings Bank, Pittsburgh (1855-1879); unsuccessful campaign, district judge; died, February 27, 1879 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.