- Solomon Robert Dresser
Solomon Robert Dresser (
February 1 ,1842 –January 21 ,1911 ) was an inventor and a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Solomon R. Dresser was born in
Litchfield, Michigan . He attended the common schools andHillsdale College . He engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1865. He became an inventor ofoil andgas well equipment, and moved toPennsylvania in 1872 to work in the production of oil and gas. He was the founder and president of the S.R. Dresser Manufacturing Co.Dresser was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906. He resumed former business pursuits and died in
Bradford, Pennsylvania in 1911; he was originally interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, but his son (unhappy with the maintenance of the cemetery) had the 20 foot obelisk and the families graves moved to Willowdale Cemetery.ources
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