Biography

10/08/1827 - 10/12/1912

Bedford and Somerset Counties (1861-1862), Somerset County (1879-1880)

SCHROCK, Edward Morgan, a Representative from Bedford and Somerset Counties; born, October 8, 1827 in Summit Township, Somerset County, Pa.; major, Company D, 133rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1863, Civil War); engaged, mercantile business; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1861 and 1862 terms; elected, prothonotary, Somerset County (1873-1876); reelected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1879 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); died, October 12, 1912 in Seattle, King County, Washington; interred, Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery, Seattle, King County, Washington.