Biography

08/17/1814 - 07/18/1889

LEVERING, Anthony D., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, August 17, 1814 in Roxborough Township (now Philadelphia), Philadelphia County, Pa.; attended, William Levering School, Philadelphia; captain, Company B, 9th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1862, Civil War); elected, judge, Auglaize County, Ohio (10 years); engaged, lumber industry; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1872 and 1873 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1874 term; bill clerk, city tax office, Philadelphia; died, July 18, 1889 in Cresco, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; interred, Levering Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania