Biography

11/1804 - 07/31/1878

POMEROY, Thomas, a Representative from Mercer County; born, November of 1804 in Derry Township, Westmorland County, Pa.; photographer; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1846 and 1847 terms; president, Lawrence County Whig Convention (1849); appointed, justice of the peace, Lawrence County; appointed, auditor, Laurence County; elected, associate judge, Lawrence County (1856-1861, 1867-1877); appointed, collector, Internal Revenue Board of Pennsylvania (1863); engaged, real estate; farmer; died, July 31, 1878 in New Wilmington, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania; interred, Neshannock Presbyterian Cemetery, New Wilmington, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.