Biography

09/27/1837 - 07/31/1926

Amos Herr Mylin (R13) Lancaster (Part) County 1877-1892

Early Life: 

Amos Herr Mylin, born September 29, 1837, West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; son of Martin and Barbara Kendig Mylin; Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; LL.B., University of Pennsylvania, law department, LL.B., 1864; corporal, Civil War, 1863; attorney, 1864-1868; farmer; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1872- 1875; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1877-1892; elected, Senate President Pro Tempore, extra session of 1883, elected, Senate President Pro Tempore, 1885-1886; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Auditor General, 1891; elected, Pennsylvania Auditor General, 1895-1898; married, Caroline E. Hepburn Mylin, daughter, Mercy Hepburn Mylin Hess; died, July 30, 1926, home of his daughter, Manheim Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; interment, Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Corporal, Company B, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil War, 1863. 

Authored:

Charitable Institutions of Pennsylvania Which Have Received State Aid In 1897 And 1898: Embracing Their History And The Amount Of State Appropriations Which They Received by Pennsylvania Office of the Auditor General (Creator), Amos H Mylin (Creator), Alexander K Pedrick (Creator)

State Prisons, Hospitals, Soldiers' Homes and Orphan Schools Controlled by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1: Embracing Their History, Finances ... by Which They Are Governed by Amos H. Mylin (Author)

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1872-1875. 

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 13th district, Lancaster (Part) County, 1877-1892; elected, Senate President Pro Tempore, extra session of 1883, elected, Senate President Pro Tempore, 1885-1886, committee assignments, Appropriations, Insurance, Judiciary (Special), Legislative Apportionment.  

Continued Government Service:

Unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Auditor General, lost to David Gregg, during Republican State Convention, 1891. 

Elected, Pennsylvania Auditor General, 1895-1898.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

Official Website - PA House Archives Official Website (state.pa.us)

Legacy: 

Father, Martin Meylin, manufactured the Pennsylvania long rifle and represented the earliest group of German-speakers to settle Pennsylvania’s back country. Mylin’s namesake, great-uncle “Brother Amos” (John Meylin), belonged to Conrad Biesel’s Ephrata Cloister.

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members M". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1888). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 670, 676-678, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 644.

Amos Herr Mylin (1837-1926) - Find a Grave Memorial