Biography

09/26/1816 - 11/12/1900


POULSON, Erastus, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, September 26, 1816 in Virginia; lawyer; Civil War pension claim agent, Philadelphia; elected as a Nativist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1854 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1855 term; died, November 12, 1900 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Peace Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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