Biography

12/26/1857 - 03/03/1922

BERGY, James G., a Representative from Juniata County; born, December 26, 1857 in Union Township, Union County, Pa.; farmer; elected, road supervisor, Fermanagh Township (2 years); elected, chair, Republican County Committee (1906-1909); appointed, Orchard Inspector, Juniata County, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (1906-1914); author, numerous horticultural articles; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1914; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1916) died, March 3, 1922 in Fermanagh Township, Juniata County, Pennsylvania; interred, Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania.