Biography

10/03/1859 - 10/26/1921

Doctor Henry Clay Chisholm (R33) Franklin and Huntingdon Counties 1897-1900   

Early Life:

Doctor Henry Clay Chisholm, born October 3, 1859, Rio, Kemper County, Mississippi; son of William Wallace and Emily S. Mann Chisholm; public schools and under private tutors, DeKalb, Mississippi; Vanderbilt University; moved to Pennsylvania at the age of nineteen years, settling in Harrisburg; appointed, Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, District of Columbia, 1878, resigned; moved, Williamsport, Pennsylvania;  Williamsport Pennsylvania Commercial College (now, Pennsylvania College of Technology); married,  Lillian Gross Chisholm, 1883, children, Anne Chisolm, William Wallace Chisholm, Emilie Mann Chisholm Lucas; clerk, Governor office, 1883; briefly spent time Idaho; Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia; Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia: Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, M.D., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1888; established medical practice, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, 1889; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1897-1900; resumed medical practice; died, October 26, 1921 (aged 62), Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York; interment, Riverview Cemetery, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Clerk, Governor Henry Martyn Hoyt office, 1883.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 33rd district, Franklin and Huntingdon Counties, 1897-1900, committee assignments, Appropriations, Canals and Inland Navigation (Chairman), Finance, Judicial Apportionment, Public Health and Sanitation, Railroads and Street Passenger Railways.

Legacy:

His father, Judge William Wallace Chisolm, and his sister, Cornelia, and brother, John, were killed by the old Ku Klux Klan in Kemper County, Mississippi, April 1877.

Cited:

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

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1900). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Miller, H.P. (Assistant Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 1186, 1192-1195, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 1158.

Patriot (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Thursday, October 27, 1921. Volume: 82 Issue: 257 Page: 7.

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Thursday, October 27, 1921, Volume: 185 Issue: 119 Page: 2.

 Dr Henry Clay Chisholm (1859-1921) - Find a Grave Memorial