Biography

06/11/1847 - 08/29/1916

RITTER, James Ruhl, a Representative from Union County; born, June 11, 1847 in East Buffalo Township, Union County, Pa.; clerk; farmer; carriage dealer; co-founder and vice president, Farmers’ Bank of Mifflinburg; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); grain and coal dealer; board of directors member, Mifflinburg Mineral Company; died, August 29, 1916 in Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mifflinburg Cemetery, Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania.