Biography

1840


MARTZ, Peter, a Representative from Northumberland County; millwright; unsuccessful campaign, sheriff, Northumberland County (1824); publisher, The Gazetteer (1824-1833); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1832-1833 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House; associate judge, Northumberland County (1833-1834); supervisor, Pennsylvania Canal, Susquehanna division (1834); died, 1840 in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.


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