Biography

05/07/1826 - 12/20/1907


NORTH, Hugh McAlister, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, May 7, 1826 in Juniata County, Pa.; attorney (1849-1907); elected as a Democrat American to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854; of council, Pennsylvania Railroad Company and Reading Railroad Company; elected, delegate, Democratic National Convention (1860); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1864); died, December 20, 1907 in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

 

 

Bibliography

 

Hugh McAlister North, born May 7, 1826; died December 20, 1907.  n.p.; Lancaster, Pa., 1908.

 

 

Archival Collections

 

North Family Papers (MS 035), Special Collections, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.


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