Biography

12/24/1816 - 01/07/1903

KOCH, Daniel, a Representative from Schuylkill County; born, December 24, 1816 in Schuylkill County, Pa.; private, Company E, 27th Regiment, Pennsylvania Emergency Militia (1863, Civil War); miller; unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Schuylkill County (1854); proprietor, general store, Middleport, Pa. (1844-1857); farmer, Auburn, Pa.; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1861 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1862 term; proprietor, flour mill, Fleetwood, Pa.; elected, burgess, Fleetwood; died, January 7, 1903 in Fleetwood, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fleetwood Cemetery, Fleetwood, Berks County, Pennsylvania.