Biography

01/24/1822 - 12/04/1885

FABEL, Joseph, a Representative from Monroe County; born, January 24, 1822 in Bushkill Township, Northampton County, Pa.; farmer; bank director; unsuccessful campaign, associate judge, Monroe County (1872, 1875); elected, overseer of the poor, Monroe County (1873); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); died, December 4, 1885 in Hamilton, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Zion Cemetery, Sciota, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.