Biography

03/15/1918 - 09/20/1984

BYERLY, Chester H., a Representative from Armstrong, Clarion, Jefferson, and Venango Counties; born in Tylersburg, Clarion County, Pa., March 5, 1918; B.S., Clarion State College (now Pennsylvania Western University, Clarion), 1940; J.D., Dickinson College School of Law (now Penn State Dickinson Law), 1948; lieutenant, Military Police Corps, United States Army (1942-1946, World War II); attorney; school director, Redbank Valley School District (1950-1972); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1972; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1974); director, New Bethlehem Area Development Company; director, Clarion County Fair Association; solicitor, New Bethlehem Borough; died, September 20, 1984 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, New Bethlehem Cemetery, New Bethlehem, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.