Biography

10/18/1825 - 02/08/1890


KOCHERSPERGER, Josiah N., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., October 18, 1825; butcher; superintendent, State House of Philadelphia (now Independence Hall), (1869-1875); bill poster; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1877, 1878 and 1879 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); officer, United States Customs Service, Philadelphia; died, February 8, 1890 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.  


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