Jesse Matlack
{{Short description|American politician (1821–1893)}}
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| name = Jesse Matlack
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| state_house = Pennsylvania
| district = Chester County
| term_start = 1877
| term_end = 1880
| predecessor = Elisha W. Baily, Peter G. Carey, John P. Edge, George Fairlamb Smith
| successor = John A. Reynolds, Theodore K. Stubbs, John T. Potts, William Wayne
| alongside = Samuel Butler, William T. Fulton, John P. Edge, John A. Reynolds
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1821|4|21}}
| birth_place = Milltown, East Goshen Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1893|4|5|1821|4|21}}
| death_place = East Goshen Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| resting_place = Goshen Friends Burial Ground
| party = Republican
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Phoebe Bishop|1854|1861|reason=died}}
- {{marriage|Martha A. Steele|1866}}
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| children = 6
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Jesse Matlack (April 21, 1821 – April 5, 1893) was an American politician from Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Chester County from 1877 to 1880.
Early life
Jesse Matlack was born on April 21, 1821, in Milltown, East Goshen Township, Pennsylvania, to Phoebe (née Hoopes) and Isaiah Matlack.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalport00garn/page/684/mode/2up |title=Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Comprising A Historical Sketch of the County |year=1893 |last=Wiley |first=Samuel T. |editor-last=Garner |editor-first=Winfield Scott |publisher=Gresham Publishing Company |pages=685–686 |via=Archive.org |access-date=2023-11-11}}{{Open access}} He studied at common schools and Hoopes' Boarding School in West Chester.
Career
After his father's death in 1830, Matlack received the {{convert|234|acre}} family farm and a hotel in Milltown called "Sheaf of Wheat" (later the Milltown Hotel). He served as tax collector, assessor, auditor, school director and justice of the peace of East Goshen Township for three terms.{{cite web |url=https://archives.house.state.pa.us/people/member-biography?ID=6922 |title=Jesse Matlack |website=Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives |access-date=2023-11-12}} In 1849, he was appointed postmaster of Milltown.
Matlack was a Republican. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, representing Chester County from 1877 to 1880.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/chestercountyits00thoms/page/440/mode/2up |title=Chester County and Its People |editor-last=Thomson |editor-first=W. W. |year=1898 |publisher=The Union History Company |page=441 |via=Archive.org |access-date=2023-11-11}}{{Open access}}
Personal life
Matlack married Phoebe Bishop, of Delaware County on March 4, 1854. They had four children, Rebecca, Phoebe, Anna and Mary. His wife died in 1861. He married Martha A. Steele, daughter of Peter Steele, on June 16, 1866. They had two children, Joseph E. and Emma W. He was a deacon, trustee, clerk and Sunday school superintendent of Goshen Baptist Church.
Matlack died on April 5, 1893, in East Goshen Township. He was buried at Goshen Friends Burial Ground.
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Category:Politicians from Chester County, Pennsylvania
Category:American justices of the peace
Category:Pennsylvania postmasters
Category:Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Category:Farmers from Pennsylvania
Category:19th-century American farmers
Category:19th-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly