Biography

09/13/1823 - 08/30/1886

STECKEL, Robert, a Representative from Lehigh County; born, September 13, 1823 in Kreidersville, Northampton County, Pa.; attended, Allentown Academy; clerk, Barber, Young & Co., general merchandise; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1873 term; reelected to the House for the 1874 term; president, Board of Prison Inspectors, Lehigh County; died, August 30, 1886 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Union-West End Cemetery, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.