Biography

04/10/1794 - 04/17/1865

IMHOFF, Joseph J., a Representative from Cambria and Somerset Counties; born, April 10, 1794 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania; major, “Allegheny Blues,”  Pennsylvania Militia (1829); farmer; innkeeper; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1834-1835 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1835-1836 term; elected, sheriff, Somerset County (1828-1831); elected, burgess, Somerset Township (1841); elected, director of Poor House (1846); elected, Fireman, Nebraska House of Representatives (1861-1862, 1864); died, April 17, 1865 in Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska; interred, Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska.