Biography

1821 - 1862


SCHOONOVER, Bernard Swartwood, a Representative from Monroe and Northampton Counties; born, 1821 in Pennsylvania; lawyer; publisher, Monroe Democrat (1846-1852); elected, delegate, State Democratic Convention (1848); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1848 and 1849 terms; presidential appointee, agent, Office of Indian Affairs, Upper Missouri Indian Agency (1859-1860); died, 1862 in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; interred, Stroudsburg Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. 


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