Biography

02/15/1767 - 09/26/1834


FORREY, Johannes “John,” Jr., a Representative from Lancaster County; born, February 15, 1767 in Lancaster County, Pa.; elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1816-1817 and 1817-1818 terms; reelected to the House for the 1823-1824, 1825-1826, 1827-1828 and 1828-1829 terms; commissioner, Pennsylvania Canal (1829); died, September 26, 1834 in West Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mountville Cemetery, Mountville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 


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