Biography

08/18/1801 - 03/04/1873


HARPER, William, a Representative from Cumberland County; born, August 18, 1801 in Cumberland County, Pa.; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1855 and 1856; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1857); died, March 4, 1873 in Penn Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Dickinson Presbyterian Church Graveyard, Penn Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.


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