Biography

12/06/1823 - 01/27/1907


RICHARDS, John Taylor, a Representative from Bedford, Fulton and Somerset Counties; born, December 6, 1823 near Rising Sun, Cecil County, Md.; farmer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1866 and 1867; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1868); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Buck Valley, Pa. (1869-1897); died, January 27, 1907 in Buck Valley, Fulton County, Pennsylvania; interred, Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Warfordsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania.


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