Biography

11/22/1835 - 09/25/1898


SMITH, Stephen J., a Representative from Berks County; born, November 22, 1835 in Albany Township, Berks County, Pa.; millwright; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1876, 1877 and 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); unsuccessful campaign, United States Congress (1880Z); died, September 25, 1898 in Windsor Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint John’s Cemetery, Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania.


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