Biography

06/22/1772 - 11/04/1830

JARRETT, Henry, a Representative from Northampton, Pike and Wayne Counties; born, June 22, 1772 in Macungie, Lehigh County, Pa.; captain, Light Horse Troop (Lower Nazareth), 2^nd Brigade, 9^th Division, Pennsylvania Militia (1812-1814, War of 1812); merchant; justice of the Peace, Northampton County (1798, 1819); unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Northampton County (1799, 1802, 1811); elected, sheriff, Northampton County (1805); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1808); elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1814-1817); engaged, bridge construction; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1819-1820 term; lawyer (1824-1830); appointed, clerk of the Orphans’ Court, Lehigh County (1829); died, November 4, 1830 in Macungie, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Linden Street Cemetery, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.