Biography

06/07/1846 - 11/12/1901

BERNHARD, Milton N., a Representative from Lehigh County; born, June 7, 1846 in Macungie, Lehigh County, Pa.; clerk; teacher; staff writer, Allentown Morning Herald; engaged, grocery business; principal, Coplay schools; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1890 and 1892; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1894); unsuccessful campaign, prothonotary, Lehigh County (1896, 1899); died, November 12, 1901 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fairview Cemetery, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.