Biography

09/08/1833 - 11/29/1893

George Flickinger Meily (R17) Lebanon County 1877-1880

Early Life: 

George Flickinger Meily, born September 8, 1833, Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; son of Henry and Susan Flickinger Meily; public schools education; Captain, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 11th Regiment, Civil War, 1862; merchant; engaged, coal, grain, lumber trades; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate 1877-1880; director, treasurer, Lebanon Mutual Insurance, 1856-1893; president, Jonestown Bank; married, Mary Brunner, children, Annie Meily Mitchell, Clara Susan Meily Capp; died, November 29, 1893, (aged 60), Johnstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interment, Jonestown Reformed and Old Cemetery, Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. 

Early Career:

Captain, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, 11th Regiment, Civil War, 1862. 

Merchant; engaged, coal, grain, lumber trades.

Pennsylvania Politics:   

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 17th district, Lebanon County, 1877-1880; chairman, Public Buildings Committee, 1877-1878; chairman, Retrenchment and Reform Committee, 1879; other committee assignments, Banks, Canals and Inland Navigation, Military Affairs.

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members M". 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 666.

Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, Pennsylvania) Monday December 04, 1893, Page 1.

Lebanon Courier and Semi-Weekly Report (Lebanon, Pennsylvania) Wednesday December 06, 1893, Page 5.

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