Biography

10/12/1815 - 06/09/1892

SELTZER, Dr. John C., a Representative from Lebanon County; born, October 12, 1815 in Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pa.; druggist; physician; elected, clerk, Quarter Session and Orphans’ Court, Lebanon County (1846-1848); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1851 and 1852; publisher and editor, Lebanon Demokrat (1857-1865); publisher and editor, Der Pennsylvanier, Lebanon (1865-1880); president, Republican County Convention (1884); died, June 9, 1892 in Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.