Biography

02/07/1841 - 05/26/1898


BACHMAN, Peter S., a Representative from Northampton County; born, February 7, 1841 in Lower Saucon Township, Northampton County, Pa.; engaged, dry goods and grocery merchant; boat manufacturer; proprietor, P.S. Bachman & Co., grain dealer; elected, chief burgess, Freemansburg, Pa.; elected, council, Freemansburg; elected, school board, Freemansburg; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1886; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888); died, May 26, 1898 in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery, Freemansburg, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.


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