Biography

07/18/1806 - 02/10/1882

COLE, Lewis Barnum, Sr., a Representative from Potter and Tioga Counties; born, July 18, 1806 in Otsego County, NY; lawyer (1835-1850); elected, surveyor, Potter County (1838); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1838-1839 term; reelected to the House for the 1840 term; clerk, Potter County commissioner’s office (25 years); justice of the peace, Coudersport (1850-1882); died, February 10, 1882 in Coudersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania; interred, Eulalia Cemetery, Coudersport, Potter County, Pennsylvania.