Jacob Hibshman (January 31, 1772May 19, 1852) was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district
Pennsylvania's third congressional district includes several areas of the city of Philadelphia, including West Philadelphia, most of Center City, and parts of North Philadelphia. It has been represented by Democrat Dwight Evans since 2019. With ...
.
Early life
Jacob Hibshman was born on a farm near
Ephrata Ephrata may refer to:
Places
* Ephrata, Suriname
* Ephrata, Pennsylvania, U.S.
*Ephrata, Washington, U.S.
* Ephrata Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Other uses
*Ephrata Cloister, a religious community in Ephrata, Pennsylvania
See also
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* Efrata or E ...
in the
Province of Pennsylvania. He attended the common schools and a private school in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He engaged in agricultural pursuits, and served as associate judge of
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania from 1810 to 1819.
Career
Hibshman was elected as a Republican to the
Sixteenth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1820
Events
January–March
*January 1 – Nominal beginning of the Trienio Liberal in Spain: A constitutionalist military insurrection at Cádiz leads to the summoning of the Spanish Parliament (March 7).
*January 8 – General Maritime T ...
to the
Seventeenth Congress.
He was deputy surveyor of Lancaster County for twenty years. He was a justice of the peace and chairman of the board of canal appraisers. He served as major general of the Pennsylvania Militia for twelve years. He organized the
Northern Mutual Insurance Co., in 1844 and served as its first president. He died at his residence near Ephrata on May 19, 1852. Interment in the Hibshman Cemetery on the farm near Ephrata.
References
1772 births
1852 deaths
Politicians from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
People from Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania state court judges
American surveyors
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
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