Biography

05/27/1807 - 03/04/1875

PASSMORE, Benjamin J., a Representative from Chester County; born, May 27, 1807 in East Nottingham Township, Chester County, Pa.; tailor apprentice; dry goods and grocery merchant; elected, coroner, Chester County (1832); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1837-1838 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1838); farmer; unsuccessful campaign, register, Chester County (1839, 1842); clerk to the commissioners, Chester County; unsuccessful campaign, treasurer, Chester County (1857); engaged, real estate and conveyance; unsuccessful campaign, associate judge, Chester County (1861); elected, associate judge, Chester County (1868-1875); died, March 4, 1875 in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Brick Meeting House Cemetery, Calvert, Cecil County, Maryland.