Biography

11/02/1821 - 08/18/1893


RHOADS, Henry Boyer, a Representative from Berks County; born, November 2, 1821 in Pennsylvania; teacher; farmer; coal miner; laborer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1860; reelected to the House in 1864, 1865, and 1866; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1861, 1867); secretary, Berks County Agricultural Society; elected, justice of the peace, Boyertown (1881); died, August 18, 1893 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fairview Cemetery, Boyertown, Berks County, Pennsylvania.


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