Biography

11/08/1876 - 12/16/1954


STINE, Edwin Shippen, a Representative from Schuylkill County; born in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pa., November 8, 1876; corporal, Company H, 8th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1898-1899, Spanish-American War); engaged, restaurant business (3 years); clerk, United States Treasury Department, Philadelphia (2 years); elected, chief burgess, Pottsville (1906-1909); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1908; resigned from the House, April 15, 1909; appointed, assistant postmaster, United States Postal Service, Pottsville (1909); elected, almshouse steward, Directors of the Poor, Schuylkill County; clerk, commissioners’ office, Schuylkill County; died, December 16, 1954 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
 


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