Biography

05/03/1840 - 03/02/1910

SPEARS, Andrew G., a Representative from Mercer County; born, May 3, 1940 in Lanarkshire, Scotland; miner; merchant; elected, constable, Hickory Township; elected, tax collector, Hickory Township; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1874); elected, delegate, Republican County Convention (1875); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to serve the 1877 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1878 term; coal operator; died, March 2, 1910 in Karthaus Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania; interred, Keewaydin Cemetery, Keewaydin, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.