David Engleman was born in
Bath, Pennsylvania to Abraham Engleman and Maria Magdalena Polly
Née Patterson on December 30, 1835. He graduated from the
Jefferson Medical College in 1864 and worked as a physician before being elected as a Democrat to the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives serving for a single term from 1870 to 1871 and refused to stand for re-election. He would be elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate serving for a single term from 1877 to 1878. Afterwards he was named to the Pennsylvania State Board of Health, and was elected to the
Easton city council and was the president of the Northampton County Medical Society. Engleman was married twice, first to Amanda M.
Née Lerch until her death in 1866, and then remarried to Rebecca S. Ruhe
Née Ettinger in 1870. Engleman died in Easton on May 14, 1913, and was buried in the Union West End Cemetery in
Allentown. ==References==