Biography

01/16/1824 - 05/08/1911

SHOCK, Daniel, a Representative from Blair County; born, January 16, 1824 in Woodbury, Bedford County, Pa.; corporal, Company G, 194th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864, Civil War); captain, Company F, 77th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1865, Civil War); blacksmith; elected, justice of the peace; elected, commissioner, Blair County (1862-1865); school director, Claysburg (20 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representative as a Republican in 1876; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1878); died, May 8, 1911 in Claysburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania; interred, Claysburg Union Cemetery, Blair County, Pennsylvania.