Biography

07/09/1852 - 05/21/1941

BOSSERT, Samuel S., a Representative from Chester County; born in Juniata County, Pa., July 9, 1852; farmer; plasterer; store clerk; general store manager; engaged in mercantile business; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Pughtown; school director; elected, justice of the peace; notary public; elected, commissioner, Chester County (1902); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1911 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House to the 1913 term; died, May 21, 1941 in Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Zion Cemetery and Mausoleum, North Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.