Schwartz, John. Born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1793; received a common-school education; served as Lieutenant in the last war with Great Britain; was engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1806 to 1829, and from that year to 1857 was wholly devoted to farming. He was elected a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-sixth Congress, but died before the expiration of his first session, in July, 1860.
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. 374.
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