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I will be editing Jonathan Elmer's Wikipedia page. I will add title pages such as " Early life" and "Family" I will be improving his Marriage and family stating that He is the son of Daniel Elmer and Abigail Lawrence. privately tutored. Physician, legislator, and jurist. Jonathan Elmer was born in Cedarville, Cumberland County, In 1769 he married Mary Seeley; they had eight children. He was awarded an M.D. degree from the Medical School of the College of Philadelphia in 1771, and established a practice at Bridgeton. In 1774 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Elmer's political career began in 1772 when he was appointed Cumberland county sheriff. He was a member of the county Committee of Observation in 1774 and the next year he was chosen a deputy to the Provincial Congress. In November 1776 he was a delegate to the Continental Congress, and subsequently served in 1777–1778 and 1781–1783. He was elected to the state's Legislative Council in 1780 and again in 1784. On the county level, Elmer at various times was clerk, surrogate, freeholder, justice of the peace, and common pleas judge. He was elected president of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1787.

Reelected to Congress in 1788, Elmer supported the new federal Constitution. That November the legislature chose him as one of the state's first U.S. senators; a moderate Federalist, he served from March 1789 until March 1791. In 1812 he chaired an antiwar convention held at Trenton. Elmer died at Bridgeton, leaving behind a reputation for medical erudition and a forty-two-year legacy of public service. Link ; http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/rutgersnj/elmer_jonathan_b_nov_29_1745_d_sept_3_1817/0