Biography

10/20/1807 - 06/27/1892


McPHERRIN, Josiah, a Representative from Butler, Lawrence and Mercer Counties; born, October 20, 1807 in Butler County, Pa.; proprietor, lumber mill; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1865 and 1866; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1867); died, June 27, 1892 in Belknap Township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa; interred, Oaklawn Cemetery, Oakland, Pottawattamie County, Iowa.


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