Biography

01/04/1833 - 06/28/1908

SUMMERVILLE, Joseph Addison, a Representative from Clarion County; born, January 4, 1833 in Franklin Township, Armstrong County, Pa.; teacher (9 years); farmer; justice of the peace (30 years), school board secretary (16 years), tax collector (10 years), and treasurer, Madison Township, Clarion County; elected, surveyor, Clarion County (5 years); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1877 and 1878 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1879 term; died, June 28, 1908 in Madison Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania; interred, Rimersburg Cemetery, Rimersburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.