Biography

09/26/1857 - 03/17/1931


FURTH, Emanuel, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, September 26, 1857 in Reading, Berks County, Pa.; graduated, Central High School, Philadelphia; LL.B., University of Pennsylvania; lawyer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1881 and 1883 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1885 term; solicitor, State Liquor League of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; unsuccessful campaign, judge, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia (1903); died, March 17, 1931 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Sinai Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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