Biography

04/22/1789 - 08/21/1862

LAVERTY, Robert Buchanan, a Representative from Chester County; born, April 22, 1789 in Morgantown, Berks County, Pa.; toll collector, Columbia Railroad; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1841; died, August 21, 1862 in Concord, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Leacock Presbyterian Cemetery, Paradise, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.