Biography

01/25/1799 - 04/21/1875


BERHARD, Joseph, a Representative from Bedford, Cambria, and Fulton Counties; born, January 25, 1799 in Bedford County, Pa.; farmer; elected, commissioner, Bedford County (1839); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1856 term; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Sideling Hill, Fulton County (1863); died, April 21, 1875 in Bethel Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Tonoloway Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery, Warfordsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania.


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