Biography

1791 - 07/30/1860

ELTON, Emmor, a Representative from Chester County; born, 1791 in Chester County, Pa.; lieutenant colonel, First Regiment, Chester County Volunteers, Pennsylvania Militia (War of 1812); farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1841 and 1842; died, July 30, 1860 in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Oakland Cemetery, West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.