Biography

11/28/1788 - 02/05/1873

HAAS, Peter, a Representative of Lehigh County; born, November 28, 1788 in Pennsylvania; stone mason; commissioned, justice of the peace, (1814-1826); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1841 and 1842 terms; appointed, associate judge, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lehigh County (1841-1856); died, February 5, 1873 in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint John’s United Church of Christ Cemetery, Fogelsville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.