Biography

07/09/1806 - 09/17/1880

Mercer and Venango Counties (1864), Butler, Lawrence and Mercer (1865)

KOONCE, Charles, Sr., a Representative from Butler, Lawrence, Mercer and Venango Counties; born, July 9, 1806 in Bedford County, Pa.; farmer; engaged, mercantile business; engaged, coal business; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Clarksville (1835-1839); elected, justice of the peace (10 years); elected as a Union Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1863 and as a Republican in 1864; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1865); died, September 17, 1880 in Clarksville, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.