Name James Nulty | ||
James T. Nulty (born 1857) was a Democratic Party (USA) member of the Pennsylvania State Legislature from Philadelphia’s 8th District from 1911-1914 and multiple times a patented U.S. inventor.
Career
Philadelphia’s James T. Nulty, 4292 Frankford Avenue, then, engaged in his final profession of “Practical Embalmer and Undertaker” was elected a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives where he served from 1911-1913 and of the Pennsylvania Senate where he served from 1913-1914. During his legislative tenure, Nulty served on the Senate’s standing committees for Military Affairs, for Public Supply of Light, Heat and Water and for Education. As an embalmer, Nulty was the inventor of a “Derma” formula embalming process that was used by undertakers throughout the nation at the turn of the 19th century. In his earlier career as a metal roller, he also invented a railroad spike and, thereafter, patented a two piece rail invention, which doubled as an electrical power line conduit and short grounding system (U.S. Patent No. 372,273) and which he sold to the Johnstown Railway Company in 1888. In that same year, James T. Nulty opened his Nulty Funeral Home business, where he employed his newly invented Derma formula and where several successive generations of the Nulty family have since operated the Nulty Funeral Home's undertaking business.