Member Biography

Biography

Private Jeremiah Albert Stober (R14) Lancaster (Part)County 1899-1906 

Early Life: 

Private Jeremiah Albert Stober, born January 20, 1842 Clay Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; son of Elias and Sarah Ziegler Stober;  Ephrata Academy; private, Company D, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia Civil War, 1863, store clerk; engaged, surveying and conveyancing; cigar manufacturer and tobacco dealer; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Schoeneck, Pennsylvania, 1869-1871; justice of the peace, West Cocalico Township, 28 years; West Cocalico Township, Republican County Committee, thirty years; member, Republican State Committee, several terms; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1874-1877; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1899-1906; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Treasurer (1909, died prior to taking the oath of office); died, January 10, 1910, West Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interment, Mellingers Cemetery, Schoeneck, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Private, Company D, 50th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia, Civil War, 1863; store clerk; engaged, surveying and conveyancing; cigar manufacturer and tobacco dealer. 

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

Member, Grand Army of the Republic. Elected, member, Pennsylvania-German Society, July 13, 1899.

Pennsylvania Politics:  
Postmaster, United States Postal Service, Schoeneck, Pennsylvania, 1869-1871. 

Justice of the peace, West Cocalico Township, 28 years. 

West Cocalico Township, Republican County Committee, thirty years.

Member, Republican State Committee, several terms. 

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

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 14th district, Lancaster (Part) County, 1899-1906; standing committee assignments, Senate of Pennsylvania, extraordinary and regular session, 1906, Agriculture, Appropriations, Elections, Finance, Mines and Mining and Public Health and Sanitation. 

Extraordinary session, legislation accomplished by the Senate, 1906, personal registration law, direct primary legislation, enacted; up until this legislation candidates were chosen at conventions.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Treasurer (1909, died prior to taking the oath of office, May 1, 1910).

Cited: 

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

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1906). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Miller, H.P. (Assistant Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 823, 829-834, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 805.

Jeremiah Albert Stober (1842-1910) - Find a Grave Memorial