Biography

07/06/1817 - 01/22/1885


HARPER, John C., a Representative from Dauphin County; born, July 6, 1817 in Annville, Lebanon County, Pa.; coal operator; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1844; elected, school board, Pottsville; elected, commissioner, Schuylkill County (1881-1884); died, January 22, 1885 in Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; interred, Charles Baber Cemetery, Pottsville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. 


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