Biography

1802 - 12/26/1849

BARR, Robert M., a Representative from Berks County; born, 1802 in Delaware; served, Pennsylvania Militia; attorney; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1840; gubernatorial appointee, reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1845-1849); died, December 26, 1849 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania.