Biography

11/21/1895 - 07/02/1979

BARNHARDT, Walter Lincoln, Sr., a Representative from Schuylkill County; born in Llewellyn, Schuylkill County, Pa., November 21, 1895; graduated, Minersville High School, 1914; graduated, Dickinson School of Law (now Penn State Dickinson Law), 1920; assistant superintendent, Baltimore Life Insurance Company, Pottsville; owner and operator, Barnhardt Wild Game Farm and Feed Store; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1933 and 1935 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1937 term; elected, recorder of deeds, Schuylkill County (4 years); employed, registration bureau, Schuylkill County Courthouse (12 years); died, July 2, 1979 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Peace Cemetery, Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.