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Union County
Pennsylvania

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Union County

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards Buffalo Township Driesbach Church Cemetery Lewisburg Lewisburg Cemetery Winfield Old Winfield Cemetery Private or family graveyard Union County, Pennsylvania Politicians buried here:   Samuel Maclay (1741-1811) — of Lewisburg, Union County, Pa. Born in Logan Township, Franklin County, Pa., June 17, 1741. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1787-91, 1797; county judge in Pennsylvania, 1792-95; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 10th District, 1795-97; member of Pennsylvania state senate, 1798-1802; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1803-09; resigned 1809. Slaveowner. Died in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pa., October 5, 1811 (age 70 years, 110 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard; cenotaph at Driesbach Church Cemetery, Buffalo Township, Union County, Pa.   Relatives: Brother of William Maclay; father of William Plunkett Maclay.   Political family: Maclay family of Pennsylvania.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Driesbach Church Cemetery Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:   Samuel Maclay (1741-1811) — of Lewisburg, Union County, Pa. Born in Logan Township, Franklin County, Pa., June 17, 1741. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1787-91, 1797; county judge in Pennsylvania, 1792-95; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 10th District, 1795-97; member of Pennsylvania state senate, 1798-1802; U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1803-09; resigned 1809. Slaveowner. Died in Buffalo Township, Union County, Pa., October 5, 1811 (age 70 years, 110 days). Interment a private or family graveyard, Union County, Pa.; cenotaph at Driesbach Church Cemetery.   Relatives: Brother of William Maclay; father of William Plunkett Maclay.   Political family: Maclay family of Pennsylvania.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Lewisburg Cemetery Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania Politicians buried here:   Benjamin Kurtz Focht (1863-1937) — also known as Benjamin K. Focht — of Lewisburg, Union County, Pa. Born in New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pa., March 12, 1863. Republican. Newspaper editor and publisher; member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1893-97; member of Pennsylvania state senate 27th District, 1901-04; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1907-13, 1915-23, 1933-37 (17th District 1907-13, 1915-23, 18th District 1933-37); defeated, 1912; died in office 1937. Died in Washington, D.C., March 27, 1937 (age 74 years, 15 days). Interment at Lewisburg Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of David Henlein Focht and Susan (Brown) Focht; married 1887 to Florence Edith Wolf.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   George Funston Miller (1809-1885) — of Pennsylvania. Born in Pennsylvania, 1809. Republican. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 14th District, 1865-69. Died in 1885 (age about 76 years). Interment at Lewisburg Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Franklin Lewis Dershem (1865-1950) — also known as Frank Dershem — of Pennsylvania. Born near New Columbia, Union County, Pa., March 5, 1865. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1900; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 17th District, 1913-15. Died in Lewisburg, Union County, Pa., February 14, 1950 (age 84 years, 346 days). Interment at Lewisburg Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Andrew Hemphill Dill — also known as Andrew H. Dill — of Lewisburg, Union County, Pa. Democrat. Member of Pennsylvania state senate, 1871-78 (14th District 1871, 17th District 1872-74, 27th District 1875-78); candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, 1878. Interment at Lewisburg Cemetery.   William Cameron (1795-1877) — of Lewisburg, Union County, Pa. Born in Maytown, Lancaster County, Pa., October 18, 1795. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Pennsylvania, 1860; candidate for Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania. Died in Lewisburg, Union County, Pa., September 10, 1877 (age 81 years, 327 days). Interment at Lewisburg Cemetery.   Relatives: Brother of Simon Cameron; uncle of James Donald Cameron.   Political families: MacVeagh family of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; Hornblower family of Newark, New Jersey; Cameron family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians). Old Winfield Cemetery Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania Politicians buried here:   John McPherson (d. 1827) — of Northumberland County, Pa. Served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War; county judge in Pennsylvania, 1791-1813. Died August 9, 1827. Interment at Old Winfield Cemetery.

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