Jacob Atlee Beidler (November 2, 1852 – September 13, 1912) was an American businessman and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from

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from 1901 to 1907.

Biography

Born in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Beidler attended the country schools, and Locke's Seminary,

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. He moved to Ohio and settled in Willoughby in Lake County in 1873. He engaged in business as a coal dealer and later as an operator. Beidler was elected a member of the city council of Willoughby in 1881. He moved to his farm, "Belle Vernon," near Willoughby, in 1881 and engaged in raising dairy cattle. He served as president of the Belle Vernon-Mapes Dairy Co.. He served as vice president of the Cleveland, Painesville & Eastern Railroad Co.

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in 1896 for McKinley/

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. Taylor 1899 : vol. 2, 136

Congress

Beidler was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1907). Owing to ill health he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.

Later career

He resumed his former business activities. He served as president of the Rhodes & Beidler Coal Co. He served as member of the State board of agriculture.

Death

He died at "Belle Vernon," near

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, September 13, 1912. He was interred in Lake View Cemetery,

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