HENRY T. ECKERT

ECKERT, Henry T., a Representative from Northumberland County; born, August 20, 1842 in the city of Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa.; attended, Freeburg Academy; teacher; travelling grocery salesman, Burns & Smucker of Philadelphia; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1886; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1888); travelling salesman, R.C. Williams & Company of New York; newspaper contributor; poet; composer; died, October 28, 1911 in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Riverview Cemetery, Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.