Biography

12/11/1856 - 02/04/1937

FERTIG, John Rehrer, a Representative from Lebanon County; born in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County, Pa., December 11, 1856; boatman, Union, Pennsylvania, and Schuylkill Canals; teacher (21 years); elected, justice of the peace (1885-1889); clerk, Orphan’s Court, Lebanon County (1893-1896); chair, Lebanon County Republican Committee (1895-1896); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1905 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1907 term; tax receiver, Lebanon County (1909-1910); died, February 4, 1937 in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interred, South Bellegrove Cemetery, Bellegrove, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.