Biography

01/18/1836 - 01/11/1891

Andrew Hemphill Dill, (D27) Northumberland, Snyder, Union Counties 1871-1878

Early Life:

Andrew Hemphill Dill, born, January 18, 1836, Hereford, Baltimore County, Maryland; son of the Reverend Henry G. and Sarah A. Gilbert Dill; rural education; entered age 13, Dickinson Seminary; Dickinson College, A.M. 1855; teacher; admitted Maryland bar, 1858; lawyer, law practice, uncle Isiah Dill, Huntersville, Alabama, 1858-1860; first lieutenant, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil War, 1862-1863; partner, Billmeyer, Dill and Company, manufacturers, bill timer and boats, 1865-1880; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1870 term, not a candidate for reelection, 1871 term; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1871-1878; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Governor, 1878; partner, Dill, Watson, and Company, lumber and boat manufacturers, 1880; chair, Democratic State Committee, 1880; appointed, United States Marshall, Eastern Pennsylvania, 1887-1891; married, Catharine Spyker Slifer, children, William Henry Dill, Katharine Frick Dill Brown, Andrew Hemphill Dill Jr., Samuel Blair Dill, Clarence Green Dill, Edwin Gilbert Dill Sr.; died, January 11, 1891, city of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Enlisted, first lieutenant, Company C, 3rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil War, 1862; first lieutenant, Company F, 28th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil War, 1863

Teacher; admitted, bar, lawyer, law practice uncle Isiah Dill, Huntersville, Alabama, 1858-1860; partner, Billmeyer, Dill and Company, boat manufacturers, 1865-1880; partner, Dill, Watson, and Company, lumber and boat manufacturers, 1880.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1870 term, not a candidate for reelection, 1871 term.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 27^th district, Northumberland, Snyder, Union Counties, 1871-1878; member Constitutional Reform Finance, Public Buildings and Railroads Committees; defeated by Henry M. Hoyt.  

Continued Government Service/National Politics:

Unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Governor, 1878.

Chair, Democratic State Committee, 1880.

Appointed, United States Marshall, Eastern Pennsylvania, 1887-1891.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=7522&body=H

Legacy:

Catharine S. Slifer, daughter, Pennsylvania State Senator Eli Slifer, who was Governor Andrew Curtin’s Commonwealth Secretary during the Civil War.

Cited: 

Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1875) Smull, J.A., Members of the Senate of Pennsylvania, page 601, 606-608.

The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday January 12, 1891, •  Page 1