Ermentrout, Daniel
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 24, 1837, in Reading, Pa. He was elected district attorney of Berks county for three years in 1862; was solicitor for the city of Reading in 1867-1870. He was elected to the state senate of Pennsylvania in 1873 for a term of three years, and re-elected in 1876 for four years.
He was a member of the board of school control of Reading for many years; and was appointed in 1877 a member of the Pennsylvania statutory commission. He was in 1880 elected as a democrat to represent Berks county in the forty-seventh congress, and successively in the fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-fifth congresses.