Biography

04/10/1806 - 12/24/1884

BALMER, Daniel, a Representative from Lancaster County; born April 10, 1806 in Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pa.; farmer; merchant; justice of the peace, Elizabethtown (15 years); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1842; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1843); carpenter; unsuccessful campaign, coroner, Lancaster County (1860); died, December 24, 1884 in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Tunnel Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania