Biography

05/17/1771 - 01/10/1849

HUTTER, Christian Jacob, a Representative from Northampton, Pike and Wayne Counties; born, May 17, 1771 in Neudeitendorf, Saxony, Germany; lieutenant colonel, Pennsylvania Milita (War of 1812); owner, Der Lancaster Correspondent (1799-1803); owner, Der Northampton Correspondent (1806-1808); publisher, Pennsylvania Herald, and Easton Intelligencer (1808-1810); publisher, The People’s Instructor (1810-1813); publisher, The Easton Centinel (1817-1834); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1822-1823, 1823-1824, 1824-1825 and 1825-1826 terms; appointed, recorder of deeds, Northampton County (1830); trustee, Lafayette College (1839-1849); died, January 10, 1849 in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Easton Cemetery, Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.