Biography

05/08/1808 - 10/26/1870


BREWSTER, Joseph Stanhope, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, May 8, 1808 in Deerfield Township, Cumberland County, NJ; lawyer (1831-1878); elected as a Nativist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1845 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1846); died, October 26, 1870; interred, Old Pittsgrove Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Daretown, Salem County, New Jersey.


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