Biography

07/03/1816 - 04/18/1895

ESHLEMAN, David Groff, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, July 3, 1816 in Strasburg Township, Lancaster County, Pa.; graduated, Dickinson College, 1840; studied law under John R. Montgomery; attorney (1842-1895); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1847 and 1848; appointed and elected, solicitor, Lancaster County (1850-1874); solicitor and director, People’s National Bank and Trust Company, Lancaster; solicitor, Lititz National Bank; unsuccessful campaign, judge, Lancaster County (1871); died, April 18, 1895 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.