Biography

1806 - 10/13/1853


CORT, Jacob, a Representative from Washington County; born, 1806; tinsmith and coppersmith; partner, Carmack, Cort & Co., foundry operators; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1848 and 1849 terms; died, October 13, 1853 in Pennsylvania; interred, Long Run Presbyterian Cemetery, North Huntingdon Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.


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