Biography

03/15/1851 - 04/17/1918

FERRY, Hugh, a Representative from Carbon County; born, March 15, 1851 in Jeansville, Luzerne County, Pa.; coal miner; elected, school director, Banks Township (9 years); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1888); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); grocer; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Audenried, Pa. (1895-1899); died, April 17, 1918 in McAdoo, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Patrick’s Cemetery, McAdoo, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.