Biography

12/17/1847 - 04/06/1909

MERREY, Joseph W., a Representative from Clinton County; born, December 17, 1847 in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England; engaged in mercantile business, lumbering, and farming; hotel proprietor; school director (10 years); elected, justice of the peace (1 term); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1882; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1884); died, April 6, 1909 in Beech Creek, Clinton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hays-Fearon Cemetery, Beech Creek Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania.