Biography

02/17/1887 - 03/21/1952

VAN ALEN, Timothy Oakley, a Representative from Northumberland County; born, February 17, 1887 in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa.; attended, Mercersburg Academy, 1902-1904; graduated, Williams College, 1908; sergeant major, Company E, 12th Regiment, 3rd Brigade, Pennsylvania National Guard Calvary (1911-1914); major, 28th Division, Pennsylvania National Guard (1917, World War I); major, American Expeditionary Forces, United States Army (1918-1919, World War I); secretary and treasurer, Keystone Forging Company; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1920 and 1922; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1924); employed, Mack International Motor Trucking Corporation; died, March 21, 1952 in Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.