Background
Showalter, Joseph Baltzell was born on February 11, 1851 in near Smithfield, Fayette Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Levi and Elizabeth Showalter.
Showalter, Joseph Baltzell was born on February 11, 1851 in near Smithfield, Fayette Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Levi and Elizabeth Showalter.
He attended Georges Creek Academy at Smithfield, and taught school in West Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois from 1867 to 1873. He studied medicine at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883, and graduated in 1884 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, Maryland (which later merged into the University of Maryland School of Medicine which is a component of the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
He moved to Chicora, Pennsylvania, in 1873 and engaged in the production of petroleum and natural gas. He died in 1932 in Washington, District of Columbia, and was interred in the North Cemetery in Butler, Pennsylvania. Medicine
Showalter practiced medicine in Chicora from 1884 to 1890, when he again engaged in the production of petroleum and natural gas.
Politics
He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1889 to 1892.
He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James J. Davidson. He was reelected to the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses.
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1902. Later career
He resumed his former business pursuits and resided in Butler, Pennsylvania.
He later moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then to Washington, District of Columbia He was engaged in the development of land in southern Florida.
Member Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1886-1888, Senate, 1888-1892. Member 55th to 57th Congresses (1897-1903), 25th Pennsylvania District.
Married Ella M., daughter