IHRIE, Peter, Jr., a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Easton, Pa., February 3, 1796; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., in 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1818 and commenced practice in Easton, Pa.; charter member of the board of trustees of Lafayette College in 1826; member of the State house of representatives in 1826 and 1827; brigadier general of State militia in 1845; elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignation of George W

*Snyder, Charles Ridgway – Born February 3, 1837, in Warren county, N. J.; A. B., 1861; member of Newark conference, Methodist Episcopal church, 1861-95. Died September 8, 1895, at Newark, N. J.

Jeremiah Chamberlain was born on January  5, 1794, the son of a Revolutionary War colonel named James Chamberlain.   Young Jeremiah grew up at "Swift Run," the family farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  He prepared at a classical school in York County  before attending Dickinson College, where he graduated in 1814.  In 1817 he was a member of the first graduating class of Princeton Theological Seminary, and upon his return to Carlisle, was ordained by the Carlisle Presbytery.  Chamberlain spent the next year performing missionary work in the Southwest.&

Henry Miller Watts was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the son of David Watts and the grandson of Revolutionary War generals on both sides of his family.  He was educated in the best schools available at the time and entered the local Dickinson College with the class of 1824; his brother, Frederick Watts, had attended earlier, with the class of 1819.  Following graduation, Henry studied law with Andrew Carothers, who also trained his brother and, in turn, had trained in the law office of the father of the two as a young man.  Henry Watts passed the Cumberland County bar in

John Winebrenner was born in Glade Valley near Frederick, Maryland on March 25, 1797, the third son of prosperous farmer Philip Winebrenner and his wife Eve Barrick Winebrenner.  He was educated first at a country school near his home and then at Frederick before he matriculated at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania with the class of 1818.  With the closure of the College in the fall of 1816, he travelled to Philadelphia to study theology under Reverend Dr. Samuel Helfenstein and was ordained in the German Reformed Church in September 1820.

Frederick Watts was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on May 9, 1801.  His father was David Watts, a prominent lawyer and member of the first class to graduate from the local Dickinson College.  Frederick entered Dickinson with the class of 1819 but did not graduate due to the temporary closing of the College in 1816.  The younger Watts went to live with his uncle, William Miles, on his farm in Erie County after the death of David Watts in 1819.  His brother, Henry Miller Watts, did graduate from the College in 1824.