Biography

03/24/1833 - 06/27/1883

Elias Jackson McHenry, (D44) Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Sullivan Counties 1880-1882

Early Life: 

Elias Jackson McHenry, born March 24, 1833, Fishing Creek Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; son of Elias and Eleanor “Ellen” Edgar McHenry; common schools education; farmer; miller; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1868; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1874-1877; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate 1878; Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, November 1880; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate 1881-1882; unsuccessful reelection, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1882; children, Marvin W McHenry, Atta Kaletie McHenry Weaver, Annette Rosena McHenry Zaner, Andrew Jackson McHenry; died, tuberculosis, June 27, 1883, (aged 50) Stillwater, Columbia County, Pennsylvania; interment, Stillwater Cemetery, Stillwater, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Engaged, farmer; engaged, miller.

From Pennsylvania Cavalcade, “The Third Day at Gettysburg: The Fishing Creek Confederacy of Columbia County”: Note: indicates that McHenry was rounded up as a draft resistor and obstructionist member of the Knights of the Golden Circle.  He was almost immediately exonerated.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1868.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1874-1877; not a candidate for reelection, 1878;

Unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate 1878.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, November 1880, vacancy, death, Senator George D. Jackson,

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 24th district, Columbia, Lycoming, Montour, Sullivan Counties 1881-1882, committee assignments, Canals and Inland Navigation, Constitutional Reform and Corporations.

Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=7061&body=H

Cited: 

Smull, W.P., (1881) Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 673, 680-682, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 645.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8447210/elias-jackson-mchenry