Biography

09/09/1826 - 04/03/1902


MEILY, John, a Representative from Lebanon County; born, September 9, 1826 in Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pa.; store clerk; engaged, canal transportation business; proprietor, Lebanon Valley Furnace; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1853; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1854); died, April 3, 1902 in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.


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