JOHN ATKINSON GILMORE

Photo credit:

McAtee, William, comp. Souvenir: Portraits and Biographies of the Members of the Legislature of Pennsylvania and Heads of Departments, Session of 1895. Harrisburg, Pa.: The Roshon Portrait Company, 1895.

Sessions

Session	Position	Party
1895-1896		Republican
1897-1898		Republican

Counties	Philadelphia

Biography

04/14/1841 - 05/31/1905

GILMORE, John Atkinson, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, April 14, 1841 in Ireland; private, Company A, 18th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); foreman, Campbell & Elliott, cotton mill; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1895 and 1897 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1899 term; chief wool inspector, United States Army; died, May 31, 1905, in Webster, Worcester County, Massachusetts; interred, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.