Amos Slaymaker | |
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Born | (1755-03-11)March 11, 1755 Lancaster County, Province of Pennsylvania, British America |
Died | June 21, 1837(1837-06-21) (aged 82) Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Amos Slaymaker (March 11, 1755 – June 21, 1837) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. His younger sister, Faithful, was the mother of the nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister George Duffield.[1][2]
Amos Slaymaker was born at London Lands in Lancaster County in the Province of Pennsylvania. He built and operated a hotel on the Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike.[3][4]
During the Revolutionary War, he served as an ensign in the company of Captain John Slaymaker. He was a member of an association formed for the suppression of Tory activities in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[5][6]
A justice of the peace of Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania and county commissioner from 1806 to 1810, he then served in the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1810 and 1811.[7][8]
Slaymaker was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Whitehill.[9][10]
Slaymaker died in Salisbury on June 21, 1837, and was interred in the Leacock Presbyterian Cemetery in Paradise.[11][12]
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