Biography

11/21/1848 - 01/26/1926

SWARTZ, Jacob W., a Representative from Snyder County; born in Beaver Township, Snyder County, Pa., November 21, 1848; graduated, Freeburg Academy; farmer; teacher; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Troxelville (1871-1878); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Middleburg; clerk to the commissioners, Snyder County; operator, mercantile business; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1911 and 1913 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1914); engaged in the Insurance industry; died, January 26, 1926 in Middleburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania; interred, Glendale Cemetery, Middleburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania.