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Lemuel Amerman | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's11th district | |
| In office March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph A. Scranton |
| Succeeded by | Joseph A. Scranton |
| Member of thePennsylvania House of Representatives | |
| In office 1881–1884 | |
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| Born | (1846-10-29)October 29, 1846 |
| Died | October 7, 1897(1897-10-07) (aged 50) Blossburg, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Bucknell University |
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Lemuel Amerman (October 29, 1846 – October 7, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as aDemocratic member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania from 1891 to 1893.
Lemuel Amerman was born nearDanville, Pennsylvania. He attended the Danville Academy, and graduated fromBucknell University inLewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1869. He taught school for three years. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1873 and commenced practice inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania.
He moved toScranton, Pennsylvania, in 1876 and continued the practice of law. He was also engaged in banking. He served as solicitor forLackawanna County, Pennsylvania, in 1879 and 1880.
He was a member of thePennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1881 to 1884. One of the important bills that he fathered and championed was an act providing for free public instruction in Pennsylvania.[citation needed]
He was elected city comptroller of Scranton in 1885 and 1886, and reporter of the decisions of thePennsylvania Supreme Court in 1886 and 1887. For seven years, he was superintendent of the dynamic and socially concerned Penn Avenue Baptist Church in Scranton (later Immanuel Baptist Church).
Amerman was elected as a Democrat to theFifty-second Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1892. He continued the practice of law in Scranton until his death inBlossburg, Pennsylvania, at the age of 50. Interment in Forest Hill Cemetery in Scranton.
After the death of his first wife, he married Mary Caroline Van Nort (born September 2, 1859), who was in the first graduating class of Scranton High School. She later became a public school teacher in Scranton. Lemuel and Mary Amerman had a son, Ralph, born 1884, and a daughter, Mary Caroline, born February 14, 1886. The mother died in childbirth on that day.[citation needed]
In 1910, Mary Caroline Amerman married Frederick Lewis of Norfolk, Virginia. Frederick Lewis eventually became the Vice President of theNorfolk Ledger-Dispatch Corp and of Norfolk Newspapers, Inc. In 1940, their daughter, Mary Caroline Lewis married Eleuthere Paul DuPont Jr (son of the founder of DuPont Motors).
Lemuel Amerman died inBlossburg on October 7, 1897.[1]
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