Biography

10/17/1803 - 01/10/1894

WASHABAUGH, Daniel, a Representative from Bedford County; born, October 17, 1803 in Maryland; major, Brigade Inspector, Pennsylvania Militia; appointed, assistant adjutant general, Governor Andrew G. Curtin office (1861-1865); brewer; distiller; owner, The Foundry and Machine Shops (1840-1855); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1841 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1842 term; elected, school director, Bedford County (1835); elected, prothonotary and register and recorder, Bedford County (1851-1857); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Bedford (1869-1875); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1876); died, January 10, 1894 in Everett, Bedford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Bedford Cemetery, Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.