Biography

02/10/1796 - 06/08/1880


MEANS, Joseph McCord, a Representative from Cumberland County; born, February 10, 1796 in Dauphin County, Pa; tanner (36 years); justice of the peace; farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1845; died, June 8, 1880 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Ashland Cemetery, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.


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