Biography

03/31/1822 - 10/27/1904

Doctor Lewis Royer (R12) Montgomery County 1879-1882

Early Life: 

Doctor Lewis Royer, born March 31, 1822, Trappe, Providence Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; son of Joseph and Elizabeth Dewees Royer; University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1843; Physician; engaged, iron manufacturing and coal mining; enlisted, 21st Pennsylvania Regiment, Civil War, 1862; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate 1879-1882; married, Isabella Treon, children, Isabella Royer Ashenfelter, Henrietta R. Royer Gotwalts, Francis Royer, Alice Royer, J. Marren Royer, Horace Treon Royer; died, October 27, 1904, interment, Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.   

Early Career:

Enlisted, 21st Pennsylvania Regiment, Civil War, 1862.

Engaged, iron manufacturing, coal mining, Rock Hill Iron and Coal Company, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Member, board of Freeland Seminary, now Ursinus College; director, Tradesmen's National Bank of Conshohocken; member, German Reformed Church, Trappe.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican, 12th district, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1879-1882; committee assignments, Accounts and Military Affairs.

Legacy:

Brother, Senator Horace Royer, 5th district, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery Counties 1865-1867.

Horace Royer  - Pennsylvania Senate Library (pasen.gov)

Studied medicine under Doctor Jacob Treon, whose daughter Isabella, he married.

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members "R"". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University. 

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1879). Smull, J.A., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 704, 710-712, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 667.

Dr Lewis Royer (1822-1904) - Find a Grave Memorial