Biography

10/15/1808 - 05/05/1875


AMBROSE, Killian, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, October 15, 1808 in Ligonier, Westmoreland County, Pa.; colonel, Pennsylvania Militia (15 years); farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1844 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1845 term; unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Westmoreland County (1853); hotel proprietor, Peru, In.; died, May 5, 1875 in Peru, Miami County, Indiana; interred, Rochester IOOF Cemetery, Rochester, Fulton County, Indiana.


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