Hon. Arnold Adam Plumer, Sr.

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Arnold Plumer (June 6, 1801 – April 28, 1869) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. (Democrat) Arnold Plumer was born near Cooperstown, Pennsylvania. He was privately tutored at home and completed preparatory studies. He served as sheriff of Venango County, Pennsylvania, in 1823 and prothonotary of the county in 1829 and clerk of the courts and recorder from 1830 to 1836. Plumer was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was appointed marshal of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania by President Martin Van Buren on May 20, 1839, and served until May 6, 1841. He was elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress. He was again appointed United States Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylvania on December 14, 1847,(by Martin Van Buren) and served until April 3, 1848, when he resigned. He was State Treasurer of Pennsylvania in 1848. He was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention. ( "a warm personal friend of Pres. James Buchanan, whose candidacy he was largely instrumental in promoting (Buchanan was from Franklin County also)") He engaged in mining and banking enterprises and died in Franklin, Pennsylvania. Interment in Franklin Cemetery.

Corresponded with Buchanan by mail: example: http://archives.dickinson.edu/node/5442/zoomify

see page 466 of Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania, Volume 2

By James Hadden  :

http://books.google.com/books?id=g1zYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA466&lpg=PA466&dq...

•~ Arnold Plumer, third child and second son of Samuel and Patty Adams Plumer, was born in Jackson Township, Venango County, Pa. June 5, 1801. He was one of the first children of Caucasian parentage born in the locality of his nativity, and he became a conspicuous figure in the history of Venango County, being in his day its most distinguished citizen. It has been said of him that the best instruction he received was from his mother. Early in life he evinced an active interest in politics, affiliating himself with the Democratic Party and acquiring leadership in that organization in his section. Four months after reaching his 22nd year, he was elected Sheriff of Venango County and acquitted himself so creditably in that capacity that on January 30, 1830 he was appointed by Governor Wolf prothonotary and clerk of the court’s register and recorder which combination of offices he held for the next six years. In 1836 he was elected a member of the 25th United States Congress, representing the district composed of Crawford, Erie, Warren, and Venango Counties. On May 20, 1839 he was named by President Van Beuren as United States Marshall for the Western District of Pennsylvania, filling that office until May 6, 1841. During that period in October 1840 he was elected to the 27th Congress, afterward on December 14, 1847, being again appointed United States Marshall for the same district. He served until April 3, 1848 when he resigned in order to accept the State Treasurership to which official responsibility he had been elected by the legislature of that year. After this he retired from public life and engaged more actively in private pursuits although he never ceased to show a keen interest in politics. Mr. Plumer was a warm, personal friend of James Buchanan, and in 1855, he alinked (alligned?) to the persuasion of other friends of that statesman. He consented to accept the nomination for Canal Commissioner in order to harmonize the Democratic Party after its defeat the preceding year owing to a combination of Whigs and No-nothings. It was a political maxim then that “As Pennsylvania goes, so goes the Union”, and as Mr. Plumer was considered the strongest possible nominee who could be named, his candidacy was desirable to establish Democratic supremacy previous to Mr. Buchanan’s nomination for the Presidency of the following year. Accordingly, he made a personal canvas, and won an election in the Buchanan interest. He could have had a place in President Buchanan’s cabinet as Postmaster General but declined on the grounds of ill health. During his twenty years of private life he accumulated by the exercise of his clear judgement of business affairs the largest fortune ever before attained by one person in Venango County. He was a man of tall and majestic appearance, dignified and daring, and possessing to a striking extent the courtesy of the old school. Convincing in argument, forcible and aggressive in expression, he was in great demand as a public speaker, although he practiced none of the arts of oratory as commonly understood, but talked earnestly and directly to the point. He died in Franklin, April 28, 1869. He married February 6, 1827 Margaret McClelland, daughter of George McClelland of Franklin. Pa. Issue:

1. Elvira A. Plumer, married and survived Judge Gilmore of Uniontown, Pa.

2. Samuel Plumer, of whom below.

3. Margaret Plumer, married H.W. Lamberton of Winona, Minnesota.

4. Arnold A. Plumer, of whom below.

5. Anne Eliza Plumer, born March 22, 1836, of whom below.

6. Henry Baldwin Plumer, born September 25, 1841 of whom below.

Pres. First National Bank

In Franklin PA: "The Boston Garden Restaurant occupies a portion of the site once known as Plumer - Hancock Block. Arnold Plumer acquired this property in 1833 and in November of 1868 he opened this three-story “flat iron” building. Banks, grocery stores, restaurants, drug stores, music stores and Western Union Telegraph offices once occupied the storefronts. Attorneys and insurance agencies leased office space in the upper two floors." see:

http://www.franklinpa.gov/General_PDFs/part6.pdf

•Siblings: Walker Plumer, Mary Harriman McCalmont (born Plumer), Benjamin Adams Plumer, Samuel F. Plumer, Patty Adams Clarke (born Plumer), Hannah W. Robinson (born Plumer) Wife: Margaret Plumer (born McClelland) Children: Arnold A. Plumer, Edwin Baldwin Plumer

•~• of possible interest: Coal Miners Memorial Plumer Mine & Coke Works, McClellandtown, Plumer, German Twp., Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. A Memorial to the Coal Miners that mined the Bituminous Coal seams of the Plumer Mine, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Compiled & Edited by Raymond A. Washlaski

Raymond A. Washlaski, Historian, Editor, Ryan P. Washlaski, Technical Editor,

Updated Aug. 24, 2010

Franklin PA gave rise to at least two members of the US House of Repreentatives

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