Biography

1835 - 08/30/1875

George Benjamin Schall (D7) Lehigh and Northampton Counties, 1865-1867

Early Life:

George Benjamin Schall, born about 1835, in the vicinity, Trexletown, Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; son of David Schall, Esquire; Attended Princeton, College of New Jersey, 1853; admitted bar, 1859; Lehigh District Attorney, 1859; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1865-1867; married, Josephine Frances Schall, daughter, May E. S. Jones; died, August 30, 1875, committed suicide, navy pistol, left ear, no cause can be assigned for the act, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interment, Fairview Cemetery, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Member, American Whig-Cliosophic Society, nation's oldest collegiate political, literary and debate society.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Lehigh District Attorney, 1859.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 7th district, Lehigh and Northampton Counties, 1865-1867, committee assignments, Judiciary, Private Claims and Damages, Public Printing.

Cited:

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

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1866). Smull, J.A., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 257, 261-263.

The Wellsboro Agitator (Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pennsylvania) Tuesday, September 7, 1875.

The Luzerne Union (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) Wednesday, September 08, 1875, page 1. 

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