Biography

09/28/1828 - 06/16/1902

HOLT, John Harbison, a Representative from Centre County; born, September 28, 1828 in Snow Shoe Township, Centre County, Pa.; teacher, vocal music; school director, Centre County (33 years); elected, clerk of elections, Centre County (9 years); proprietor, J. H. Holt & Co., lumbering business; justice of the peace; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1888 and 1890; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1892); president, Salt Lick Gas Co.; died, June 16, 1902 in Centre County, Pennsylvania; interred, Askey Cemetery, Moshannon, Centre County, Pennsylvania.