Biography

12/11/1857 - 09/28/1898


GAFFNEY, Edward A., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, December 11, 1857 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, Girard College, 1866-1873; clerk; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1891 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1893 term; contract clerk, Pennsylvania Bureau of Highways (1896-1898); died, September 28, 1898 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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