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HON. HARRY G. STILES, a well known member of the legal profession in Allentown, Pa., is a native of this city, his birth having occurred here on the 16th of December, 1856. He is a representative of one of the most prominent families of the community. His father, Hon. John D. Stiles, was born in Luzerne County, Pa., January 15, 1821, received an academic education, studied law, and in 1844 was admitted to the Bar. He became a leading practitioner, and in 1853 was elected District Attorney for Lehigh County, which office he held for three years. In 1856 he was a delegate to the National Convention which nominated James Buchanan for the presidency. The same year he was elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress, to fill the unexpired term of his deceased friend, T. B. Cooper, and served on the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. In 1862 he was re-elected to Congress, and served on the Committees on Expenditures in the State Department and Revolutionary Claims. He was also a delegate to the Chicago Convention of 1864, and to the Philadelphia National Union Convention of 1866. In 1844 he came to Allentown, where he has since resided, one of its most prominent and highly respected citizens.

We now take up the personal history of Harry G. Stiles, who in his youth attended the public and high schools of his native town, being graduated from the latter on the 30th of July, 1874. He afterwards took a two-years special course in Muhlenberg College, and then entered the Harvard Law School, from which he was graduated in 1878. In Allentown, on the 14th of April, 1879, he was admitted to practice at the Bar of Lehigh County, and at once formed a partnership, with his father, under the firm name of John D. Stiles & Son. In 1889 he was elected District Attorney for a term of three years, and proved a capable and efficient officer. On his retiremen from office, he at once resumed the practice of law, and in 1894 he was elected State Senator on the Democratic ticket.

On the 27th of September, 1889, Mr. Stiles married Miss Anna Yheulon, of Allentown, daughter of Joseph Yheulon. They are well known people of this city, where they have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. In his political views Mr. Stiles is a Democrat, and has frequently served as a delegate to the county and state conventions of his party. The greater part of his time and attention, however, is devoted to legal practice, and in the prosecution of his chosen profession he has met with most excellent success. He is an able, logical and fluent speaker, and his abilities, both natural and acquired, are rapidly winning him a foremost place in the ranks of his professional brethren. He is regarded as one of the best and representative citizens of the community, and is prominent in professional, political and social circles.