Biography

11/23/1798 - 01/11/1882

SCHOENER, Dr. Adam, a Representative from Berks County; born, November 23, 1798 in Womelsdorf, Berks County, Pa.; M.D., University of Pennsylvania; brigade inspector, Berks County, Pennsylvania Militia (14 years, Mexican American War); physician; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1833-1834, 1838-1839 and 1840 terms; justice of peace, Rehrersburg (20 years); elected, delegate, State Democratic Convention (1859); died, January 11, 1882 in Rehrersburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Trinity United Church of Christ Cemetery, Rehrersburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania.