DIRECTORS OF THE POOR.
A majority vote in favor of a county poor house and farm was first polled at the October election in 1845.
Benjaman Kimmel, elected October, 1846.
Absolam Casebeer, elected October, 1846.
Joseph Imhoff, elected October, 1846.
Samuel Will, elected October, 1847.
Henry Frank, elected October, 1847.
Henry Frank, elected October, 1848.
John Lichty, elected October, 1849.
Jacob Koontz, elected October, 1851.
Henry J. Heiple, elected October, 1852.
Joseph Ferner, elected October, 1853.
Jacob Walter, elected October, 1854.
William Will, elected October, 1855.
John Sutter, elected October, 1856.
George Zimmerman, elected October, 1857.
David Ankeny, elected October, 1858.
John Cupp, elected October, 1859.
Joseph R. Chorpenning, elected October, 1860.
George Cobaugh, elected October, 1861.
John Schrock, elected October, 1862.
William Will, elected October, 1863.
Samuel A. Rhoads, elected October, 1864.
Jeremiah Snyder, elected October, 1865.
David Casebeer, elected October, 1866.
Tobias Meyers, elected October, 1867.
Jeremiah Snyder, elected October, 1868.
Andrew Woy, elected October, 1869.
Jacob M.Walter, elected October, 1870.
Peter Suder, elected October, 1871.
John H. Snyder, elected October, 1872.
Jacob C. Crichfield, elected October, 1873.
Samuel Trent, elected October, 1874.
Isaac Yoder, elected November, 1875.
Samuel Snyder, elected November, 1876.
Joseph G. Coleman, elected November, 1877.
Gillian Koontz, elected November, 1878.
Rudolph Ferner, elected November, 1879.
Alexander Korns, elected November, I880.
Daniel Kimmel, elected November, 1881.
Jesse Hoover, elected November, 1882.
(Source: History of Bedford, Somerset & Fulton Counties, PA; 1884)
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