Biography

06/02/1814 - 03/29/1876

FETTER, Herman Marcus, a Representative from Lehigh County; born, June 2, 1814 in Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pa.; tinsmith; hotel proprietor, Hellertown Hotel; elected, sheriff, Lehigh County (1862); engaged, lumber business; hotel proprietor, Swan Hotel, Freemansburg, Pa.; hotel proprietor, Fetter Hotel, South Bethlehem; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1871 term, reelected to the House for the 1872 term; died, March 29, 1876 in South Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.