Biography

05/06/1818 - 08/13/1889


LAWRENCE, Abraham S., a Representative from York County; born, May 6, 1818 in Pennsylvania; boatman; employed, coal industry; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1865; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1866); chair, York County Democratic Committee (1868); jail keeper, York County; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1874); brick maker; died, August 13, 1889 in Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Jerusalem Cemetery, Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.


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