Biography

06/27/1847 - 01/20/1923


GOENTNER, John Beans, a Representative from Montgomery County; born, June 27, 1847 in Montgomery County, Pa.; attended, Loller Academy; teacher (6 years); farmer; elected, justice of the peace (2 terms); elected, school director; director, insurance company; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1892 and 1894; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1896); farmer; magistrate; died, January 20, 1923 in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hatboro Cemetery, Hatboro, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. 


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