Biography

04/30/1810 - 11/16/1884

LAUBACH, Joseph, a Representative from Monroe and Northampton Counties; born, April 30, 1810 in Pennsylvania; attended, Easton Academy; captain, Northampton Volunteers (11 years); employed, J. and M. Butz, dry goods and groceries (1830-1839); proprietor, coal and general merchandise store (1839-1860); elected, auditor, Northampton County (1840-1842); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1848 and 1849 terms; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Catasauqua (1851-1853); elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1855-1858); elected, delegate, National Democratic Convention (1860); elected, associate judge, Northampton County (1861-1875); president, Northampton County Savings Bank; president, Lehigh Valey Iron Works; president, Allentown College for Women (now, Cedar Crest College); trustee, Franklin and Marshall College; died, November 16, 1884 in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, Howertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.