Biography

11/09/1873 - 05/08/1939

MOYER, Gabriel H., a Representative from Lebanon County; born in Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pa., November 9, 1873; attended, Palmyra Academy; attended, Lebanon Business College;  graduated, Dickinson College, 1898; employed, shoe manufacturing; publisher, Palmyra Record (1899-1901); chair, Lebanon County Republican Committee (1901); deputy sheriff, Palmyra (1902); organizer, cashier, director, Valley Trust Co.; lawyer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1905, 1907, and 1909 terms; elected, Floor Leader (1909-1910); not a candidate for reelection to the House in the 1910 General election; compiling clerk, Pennsylvania Legislative Journal; died, May 8, 1939 in Hummelstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Palmyra Cemetery, Palmyra, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.