Biography

04/04/1807 - 10/26/1860


BERGSTRESSER, Lot, a Representative from Dauphin County; born, April 4, 1807 in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pa.; farmer; proprietor, foundry business; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1853); elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854; president, Berrysburg Seminary; died, October 26, 1860 in Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Peach Church Cemetery, Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. 


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