Biography

10/03/1773 - 05/13/1852

Centre, Clearfield and McKean Counties (1814-1815), Centre and Clearfield Counties (1815-1819)

KRYDER, Johann Jacob, a Representative from Centre, Clearfield and McKean Counties; born, October 3, 1773 in Mifflinburg, Northumberland (now Union) County, Pa.; captain,  8^th Regiment, 8^th Company, Pennsylvania Milita (1799); farmer; elected, commissioner, Centre County (1810, 1826-1827); elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1814-1815, 1815-1816 and 1816-1817 terms; reelected to the House as a Democrat for the 1817-1818 and 1818-1819 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1819-1820 term; elected, delegate, State Democratic Convention (1826, 1828, 1831, 1835, 1838); appointed, associate judge, Centre County Court of Common Pleas (1827-1841); died, May 13, 1852 in Millheim, Centre County, Pennsylvania; interred, Aaronsburg Reformed Cemetery, Aaronsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania.