Biography

09/18/1850 - 10/09/1928

Doctor Henry Detweiler Heller (R18) Northampton County 1895-1898

Early Life:

Doctor Henry Detweiler Heller, born September 18, 1850, Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; son of Christian Butz and Henrietta Detweiller Heller; Claverack College, Claverack, New York; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1871; practiced medicine, Hellertown, 1871-1928; president, United States Medical Examining Board (district) four years; initiated, Hellertown Board of Trade, 1888; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1895-1898; gubernatorial appointment, office of State Quarantine Physician; financial interests, Thomas Iron Company, Lehigh Valley; owner, limestone quarry; married, Amanda C.S. Diehl Heller; died, October 9, 1928 (aged 78); interment, Union Cemetery, Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.   

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 18th district, Northampton County, 1895-1898; committee assignments, Appropriations, Elections, Law and Order, Public Grounds and Buildings (Chairman), Public Health and Sanitation, Public Roads and Highways; unseated, Edward Henry Laubach by contest, June 8,1895.

Gubernatorial appointment, Governor William Alexis Stone, office of State Quarantine Physician.

Cited:

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

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1898). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Miller, H.P. (Assistant Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 1163, 1169-1171, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 1137.

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