US House of Representatives 1819-1821 & Familial Elder to Founder of Ephrata National Bank (ENB) Jacob Hibshman (January 31, 1772May 19, 1852) was a member of the

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from Pennsylvania's 3rd congressional district.

Early life

Jacob Hibshman was born on a farm near Ephrata in the

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. He attended the common schools and a private school in

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. He engaged in agricultural pursuits, and served as associate judge of

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from 1810 to 1819. In 1817, Hischman and fellow judges of the court Thomas Clark and Walter Franklin were

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for allegations of

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and acquitted in an

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Career

Hibshman was elected as a Republican to the Sixteenth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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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.

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