- Edmund W. Samuel
Edmund William Samuel (
November 27 ,1857 –March 7 ,1930 ) was a Republican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania .Edmund W. Samuel was born in
Blaenavon ,Wales . He immigrated to theUnited States with his parents, who settled inAshland, Pennsylvania , in 1859. He was engaged incoal mining, and learned the drug business and began the study of medicine. He graduated from theJefferson Medical College atPhiladelphia in 1880, and commenced practice inMount Carmel, Pennsylvania . He served as school director of Mount Carmel from 1890 to 1894.Samuel was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 and for election in 1908. He resumed the practice of medicine in Mount Carmel, and served as president and general manager of the Shamokin-Mount Carmel Transit Co. from 1908 to 1924. He retired in 1925 and moved to
Brooklyn, New York . He died in Mount Carmel in 1930. Interment in Mount Carmel Cemetery.ources
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