Biography

01/04/1790 - 03/25/1837

Colonel Jacob Kern (D12) Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne Counties 1831-1833

Early Life:

Colonel Jacob Kern, born January 4, 1790, Kernsville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; son of Nicholas and Maria Barbara Ollwine Kern; subscription schools education; advanced education, as a surveyor and soldier; married, Mary Palmer; children, Jacob Clyde Kern, Doctor George P. Kern, Elizabeth M. Kern, Sabina Kern; Lieutenant, Colonel, Pennsylvania Militia, 1811-1821; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1831-1833; died, March 25, 1837 (aged 47), Bath, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; interment, Bath Kircheyard, Bath, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Governor Snyder commissioned, Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Militia, 1811; served throughout the War of 1812; Governor Findlay promoted, Colonel; Governor Hiester appointed, Colonel, Twenty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, 1821.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 12^th district, Lehigh, Northampton, Pike, Wayne Counties, 1831-1833, lost reelection, Peter Michler.

Cited:

Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Lehigh Valley,
Pennsylvania, vol. I, editor John W. Jordan, Edgar Moore Green, and George T. Ettinger (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1905) page 446. 

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