Biography

02/08/1863 - 12/28/1938

GUISE, David H., a Representative from Adams County; born, February 8, 1863 near Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Md.; attended, Niagara University; attended, Eaton and Burnett’s Business College; clerk, wholesale and retail store, Baltimore (2 years); dairy farmer and Jersey cattle breeder; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1902); treasurer, board of road supervisors, Adams County; elected, tax collector (1906); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1906; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1908); chairman, Democratic County Committee, Adams County; died, December 28, 1938 in Fairfield, Adams County, Pennsylvania; interred, St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Emmitsburg, Frederick County, Maryland.