History of New Holland, (Lancaster County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Amos Ellmaker, jurist, was born in New Holland, Pa. Feb. 2, 1787. He was educated at Yale college, but left before graduating to study in the Litchfield, Conn., law school. He continued his course in law in Harrisburg, Pa., and was admitted to the bar in 1808. He was deputy attorney-general of Dauphin county, 1809-12, and representative in the state legislature, 1812-14. He was a volunteer aid to General Forster in 1814, president judge of his district, 1815-16, and attorney-general of the state, 1816-19. He practised law in Lancaster, Pa., 1821-51, and was the anti-masonic candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1832, with William Wirt for President, receiving seven electoral votes He died in Lancaster, Pa., Nov. 28, 1851.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Isaac Ellmaker Hiester, representative, was born at New Holland. Pa., May 29, 1824; son of William and Lucy E. (Ellmaker) Hiester; and grandson of William Hiester and of Isaac Ellmaker. He attended a Moravian school at Litiz in early youth and after a period at Abbeville academy entered Bolmar's institute at West Chester, Pa., where he prepared for college. He was graduated from Yale with high honors in 1842; was admitted to the bar, Sept. 13, 1845, unit practised in Laimcaster, Pa. He was appointed deputy attorney-general in 1848; was a Whig representative in the 33d congress, 1853-55, and failed of re-election in 1854. Having repudiated the "Know-Nothing" movement he united with the Democratic party who nominated him for representative in the 35th congress in 1856 in opposition to Anthony E. Robert then a representative in congress. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1868 and was appointed a member of the Democratic national executive committee. He several times declined the nomination for justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the banking firm of Reed, Henderson & Co., of Lancaster. He was married, Feb. 18, 1863, to Mary T., daughter of Benjamin Eshleman, of Lancaster. He died in Lancaster, Pa., Feb. 6, 1871.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor