McKenty, Jacob K. He was born in Douglassville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1827; graduated at Yale College in 1848, and at Yale Law School in 1850; settled in Reading, and commenced the practice of law in 1851; in 1856 he was elected District Attorney for Berks County; and was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress, for the unexpired term of J. Swartz, deceased. Died in Douglassville, Berks County, January 3,1866.
Lanman, Charles. Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States During Its First Century: From Original and Official Sources. Washington: James Anglim, Publisher, 1876, p. 286.
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