Biography

01/06/1843 - 02/28/1910

FORREST, Loron W., a Representative from Bradford County; born, January 6, 1843 in Smithfield Township, Bradford County, Pa.; sergeant, Company H, 191st Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865, Civil War; prisoner of war, 1864-1865); patternmaker; engaged, wagon making (1865-1867); proprietor, foundry (1867-1901); elected, justice of the peace (1884); elected as a Fusionist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); farmer (1901-1910); died, February 28, 1910 in East Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union Cemetery, East Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.