Biography

12/31/1820 - 04/30/1879

DAVID, Benjamin Gans, a Representative from Crawford County; born, December 31, 1820 in Fayette County, Pa.; wagon maker; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1850 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1851 term; county clerk; justice of the peace; elected, commissioner, Crawford County (1865-1870); died, April 30, 1879 in Saegertown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saegertown Cemetery, Saegertown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania.