Thomas Elder (January 30, 1767 - April 29, 1853) is a Pennsylvania lawyer and entrepreneur of Harrisburg. He served one term as the state Attorney General.
His residence after 1835 was a former Harris family home. Currently known as John Harris-Simon Cameron House and is a National Historic Landmark.
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Biography and career
Elder was born the son of Reverend John Elder and his second wife, Mary Simpson. Elder senior was born, raised, and educated in Edinburgh. In Paxtang, Pennsylvania, he is known as the "Fighting Fighter", who organized an anti-India militia known as Paxton Boys.
Thomas Elder was educated at the Philadelphia Academy, and received at the Dauphin County bar in 1791. He volunteered to help suppress the Whiskey Rebellion, refusing the commission until afterwards, when he was made lieutenant colonel. He practiced law for over forty years. He is active in Harrisburg affairs, in particular he is a "leading and leading spirit" behind the organization of the Harrisburg Bridge Company, built (1814-20) and runs the first Susquehanna-covered bridge, and was elected (1816) and re-elected by directors as president first company, until he resigned in 1846. He was president of the Harrisburg Bank from 1816 until his death.
Elder served as State Attorney General from 1820-23. After that, he always refused political office, although he maintained his interest in politics. William Henry Harrison's "log cabin campaign" is a suggestion from Elder's.
The elder married Catherine Cox in 1799. A daughter, Mary R., would marry Amos Ellmaker. Catherine died in 1810. Elder then married Elizabeth Shippen Jones in 1813, she would live longer than the Elder.
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Further reading
- Armor, William Crawford (1897). The John Harris Mansion, 1766-1897 . Harrisburg Publishing Company.
- Eggert, Gerald G. (1993). Harrisburg Industrialalizes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community . Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBNÃ, 9780271030708
- Egle, William Henry (1886). Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Ireland and Germany . LS Hart, printer
- Elliott, Richard Smith (1883). Notes taken in sixty years . R. P. Studley & amp; Co.
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