Ela, Jacob Hart

Member of Fortieth and Forty-First Congresses from New Hampshire's First District.

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Jacob Hart Ela
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Siblings
    0
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    3
    Family

    Enoch Ela (father), Mary Hart (mother), Abigail Moore Kelley (first wife - died 1879 - three children), Mary Henderson (second wife)

    Occupation
    Politician
    Businessman
    Journalist
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Printer
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Republican
    Other Affiliations
    Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
    Temperance (Prohibition)
    Government
    Lincoln Administration (1861-65)
    Grant Administration (1869-77)
    Hayes Administration (1877-81)
    How to Cite This Page: "Ela, Jacob Hart," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/47210.