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
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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.
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Driesbach Church
Cemetery
Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania
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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.
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Lewisburg
Cemetery
Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania
Politicians buried
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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;
Republican Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1876
(voted for Rutherford
B. Hayes and William
A. Wheeler).
Died in Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa., September
10, 1877 (age 81 years, 327
days).
Interment at Lewisburg Cemetery.
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Old Winfield
Cemetery
Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania
Politicians buried
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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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