Biography

1778 - 02/04/1834

Doctor Charles Fraser (D9) Columbia, Luzerne, Northumberland, Susquehanna, Union Counties 1816-1820

Doctor Charles Fraser, married, Mary Lord, 1809, children, Philip Fraser, Franklin Fraser, Ann L. Fraser; prothonotary, clerk of the courts and register and recorder, Susquehanna County, 1812-1816; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1816-1820; died, February 4, 1834, Pennsylvania. No information about, birth, parents or death is currently available.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Appointee gubernatorial, Governor Simon Snyder, prothonotary, clerk of the courts and register and recorder, Susquehanna County, 1812-1816.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 9th district, Columbia, Luzerne, Northumberland, Susquehanna, Union Counties, 1816-1820.

Legacy:

Father, of Philip, Mayor of Jacksonville, 1855-1856; District Judge, United States District Court, Northern District of Florida, 1862-1876.

Father of Florida Supreme Court Justice Franklin Fraser, 1873-1874.

Cited:

History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania: From a Period Preceding Its Settlement to Recent Times, Including the Annals and Geography of Each Township with Maps and Numerous Illustrations; Also, a Sketch of Woman's Work in the County for the United States Sanitary Commission, and a List of the Soldiers of the National Army Furnished by Many of the Townships; Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1873 - Susquehanna County (Pennsylvania) - 640 pages; Emily C. Blackman, page 41.