Biography

11/11/1810 - 07/04/1880

PAINTER, Israel, a Representative from Westmoreland County; born, November 11, 1810 in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pa.; attended, Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College); teacher (2 years); store clerk; livestock dealer; proprietor, Mastodon Salt Works, Fountain Salt Works, and Mammoth Salt Works (1832-1880); cotton trader; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1845 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1846 term; engaged, real estate; Canal Commissioner (1849-1852); president, Hempfield Railroad (1852-1853); owner, Painter Grist Mill, Union Mills and Latrobe Mills (1853-1880); proprietor, The Latrobe Hotel (1858); elected, delegate, National Democratic Convention (1860); director, Western Railroad Company (1861); engaged, coal and oil sales (1865-1880); director, Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Mount Pleasant and Broad Ford Railroad Company; unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1870); engaged, coke ovens (1873-1879); elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1878); died, July 4, 1880 in South Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mill Grove Cemetery, South Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.