Biography

04/07/1827 - 06/19/1891

FRANKLIN, Emlen, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, April 7, 1827 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pa.; graduated, Yale College, 1847; captain, Company F, 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); colonel, 122nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); colonel, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1863, Civil War); lawyer (1850-1891); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854; elected, District Attorney, Lancaster County (1859-1862); elected, register of wills, Lancaster County (1863-1866); died, June 19, 1891 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.