Biography

1793 - 09/29/1860

TREVOR, John Bond, a Representative from Fayette County; born, 1793 in Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire, England; graduated, Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College, 1805; captain, Union Volunteers Troop, Pennsylvania Militia (1823); appointed, clerk, Connellsville (1806-1808); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Connellsville (1808-1820); elected, treasurer, Connellsville (1809); cashier, Connellsville Navigation Company (1816-1818); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1818-1819 term; reelected to the House as a Binnite for the 1819-1820 term (vacated seat during contested election investigation, January 18, 1820: Sworn In, February 23, 1820); not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1820-1821 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1824); elected, State Treasurer (1820-1821); appointed, prothonotary, Fayette County (1822-1824); engaged in banking; director, Philadelphia Bank (1828-1831); cashier, Western Bank of Philadelphia (1831-1835); elected, delegate, National Democratic Convention (1831); director, Oxford Rail Road Company (1835); cashier, Philadelphia Bank (1835-1847); treasurer, Atlantic Ohio Telegraph Company (1846); died, September 29, 1860 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.