Sessions | Office | Position | District | Party |
---|---|---|---|---|
1863 | 1 | Republican | ||
1864 | 1 | Republican | ||
1865 | 2 | Republican | ||
1866 | 2 | Republican | ||
1867 | 2 | Republican | ||
1868 | 2 | Republican |
COUNTIES: Philadelphia
Jacob Elwood Ridgway (R1) 1863-1864 and (R2) 1865-1868
Early Life:
Jacob Elwood Ridgeway, born, August 19, 1824, Salem, Salem County, New Jersey; son of Job and Rebecca Elbin Ridgway; attended, Quaker School; captain, Civil War, 1862, Civil War; carpenter; master builder; engaged, shipping business, 1853-1880; elected, city council, Philadelphia, 1855-1857; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1860-1861; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1863-1868; founder, vice president, Union Passenger Railway, 1864-1883; owner, various coal, gold and silver mines; president, Quaker City National Bank, 1892-1909, president, Atlantic City and Chelsea Improvement Company; director, vice president, Keystone Telephone Company; married Sarah Shreve, 1848 (d. 1881) remarried, Barbara A. Kuhlmeyer, 1894, children, Caleb Shreve Ridgway, Anna Ridgway Bishop and Martha Shreve Ridgway Bement;died, May 6, 1909, city of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interment, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Early Career:
Captain, Company I, 119th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Civil War, 1862.
Carpenter; master builder; engaged, shipping business, 1853-1880.
Founder and vice president, Union Passenger Railway, 1864-1883.
Owner, various coal, gold and silver mines.
President, Quaker City National Bank, 1892-1909.
Pennsylvania Politics:
Elected, city council, Philadelphia, 1855-1857.
Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1860- 1861; not a candidate for reelection, 1862.
Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1st district Philadelphia County 1863-1864, 2nd district 1865-1868; member, Public Printing and Railroad Committees.
Pennsylvania House of Representatives Biography:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/BiosHistory/MemBio.cfm?ID=8023&body=H
Cited:
Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1867) Smull, J.A., pages 274 and 280-282.
Smull’s Legislative Hand Book, (1868) Smull, J.A., pages 257 and 261-263.