Biography

03/06/1808 - 11/04/1878

HERR, Benjamin Groff, a Representative from Lancaster County; born, March 6, 1808 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; farmer; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1837-1838, 1838-1839 and 1840 terms; elected, delegate, Whig National Convention (1840); not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1841 term; died, November 4, 1878 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Longenecker’s Reformed Mennonite Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.