Acheson, Ernest F
journalist, congressman, was born Sept. 19, 1855, in Washington, Pa. He was educated at Washington and Jefferson college; read law and was admitted to the bar in 1877; and in 1879 purchased The Washington Observer, of which he has since been editor.
He was elected president of the Pennsylvania Editorial association in January, 1893, and in June of the same year was chosen as recording secretary of the National Editorial association. For ten years he was a member of the republican state committee; was a delegate to the republican national conventions at Chicago in 1884 and at St.
Louis in 1896; was elected to the Fiftyfourth; and re-elected to the Fifty-fifth congress as a republican.