Biography

01/24/1788 - 10/28/1846

NORBURY, Joseph Britt, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born January 24, 1788 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, Penn Charter School; major, Second Battalion, 84^th Regiment, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Militia (1814-1815, 1823; War of 1812); lawyer (1812-1846); elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1815-1816 term; school director, Spring Garden, Philadelphia County (1821-1823, 1825-1826); elected, school controller, Philadelphia County (1823, 1825); reelected to the House as a Democrat for the 1823-1824 term; elected, guardian of the poor, Philadelphia County (1826); elected, delegate, Democratic State Convention (1828); died, October 28, 1846 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; removed to Lawnview Cemetery, Rockledge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.