Peter Schell

Peter Schell

Seal

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1820-1821 Representative Democrat
1821-1822 Representative Democrat
1822-1823 Representative Democrat
Counties Bedford

Biography

08/01/1784 - 10/28/1862


SCHELL, Peter, a Representative from Bedford County; born, August 1, 1784 in Montgomery County, Pa.; merchant; justice of the peace, Napier; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1820-1821, 1821-1822 and 1822-1823 terms; appointed, associate judge, Bedford County (1831-1838, 1842-1843); elected, burgess, Bedford (1832); trustee, Marshall College (now, Franklin and Marshall College); died, October 28, 1862 In Bedford, Bedford County, Pennsylvania; interred, Schellsburg Cemetery, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. 


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