Honorable Joseph B. Lawrence 3 4
- Born: 1783, , Washington, PA
- Marriage (1): Rebecca Van Eman in 1814 1
- Marriage (2): Maria Bucher on 4 Sep 1823 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA 2
- Died: 7 Apr 1842, Washington, District of Columbia, DC at age 59 3
- Buried: Washington, District of Columbia, DC 2 5
FamilySearch ID: LHZN-46B.
Noted events in his life were:
1. He has conflicting birth information of 1786 and , , PA. 5
2. He has conflicting birth information of 1788 and , Adams, PA. 2
3. His funeral was held in 1842 in Washington, District of Columbia, DC. 5 Hon. Joseph Lawrence (b. 1786 - d. 17 Apr 1842)
Buried in Congressional Cemetery: Range 56 Site 137-140
A Representative from Pennsylvania. Attended the common schools and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Elected to the 19th and 20th Congresses (1825-1829). Elected as a Whig to the 27th Congress and served from 1841 until his death.
The National Intelligencer, Tuesday, April 19, 1842
Funeral of Joseph Lawrence Order of Procession for the Funeral of the Hon. Joseph Lawrence, a Representative in the Congress of the United States from the State of Pennsylvania. The Committee of Arrangements, pall-bearers, and mourners will attend at Mrs. Spriggs's, the late residence of the deceased, at 11 o'clock this day, at which time the corpse will be removed to charge of the Committee of Arrangements, attended by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, to the Hall of the House. At 12 o'clock m. Funeral services will be performed in the Hall of the House of Representatives, and immediately thereafter the procession will move to the Congressional Burial Ground in the following order:
Order of Procession: The Chaplains of both Houses of Congress Physicians who attended the deceased Committee of Arrangements
Mr. J.Q. Adams, of Mass. Mr. J.R Underwood, of Ky.
Mr. James Irvin, of Penn. Mr. T.W. Gilmer, of Va.
Mr. P.G. Goode, of Ohio Mr. Seth M. Gates, of N.Y.
Mr. G.M. Keim, of Penn. Mr. J.J. McKay, of N.C.
Pall-Bearers
Mr. B.N. Briggs, of Mass. Mr. R.L. Caruthers, of Tenn.
Mr. Lott Warren, of Ga. Mr. N. Clifford, of Maine
Mr. Truman Smith of Conn. Mr. C. Morris, of Ohio
Mr. M. Fillmore, of N.Y. Mr. J. Campbell, of S.C.
The Family and Friends of the deceased
The Senators and Representatives from the State of Pennsylvania as mourners
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives
Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives
The House of Representatives of the United States
The other officers of the House of Representatives
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate
President and Secretary of the Senate
The Senate
The other officers of the Senate
The Officers of the Library of Congress
The President of the United States (Tyler)
The Heads of Departments
The Diplomatic Corps
The Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and its officers
The Judges of the Circuit Court of the Unites States for the District of Columbia, with the Marshal and Clerk
The Comptrollers, Auditors, and other Heads of Bureaus of the several Departments of the Government, with their officers
Other Public Officers at the seat of Government.
The Commanding General of the Army, with other military officers at the seat of Government.
The Commissioners of the Navy, wit other naval officers at the seat of Government.
The Mayor of Washington (Seaton) and the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
The Freemen's Vigilant Total Abstinence Society of Washington, of which the deceased was a member.
Citizens and Strangers.
4. He has conflicting death information of 17 Apr 1842 and Washington, District of Columbia, DC. 2
5. Book: Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 1889. 3
LAWRENCE, Samuel M., son of Joseph and Maria (Bucher) Lawrence, was born in Washington county, Pa., December 14, 1835. His father's death occurring when he was six years old his mother removed two years later to Harrisburg, her former home, where she continued to reside during the remainder of her life, and here Samuel received his principal education, although attending Jefferson College for a time. From boyhood he was a remarkable student, and had a perfect hunger for knowledge. At an early age he adopted the profession of civil engineering, and was engaged in the survey of the Sunbury & Erie (now Philadelphia & Erie) railroad, and continued on it until its completion in 1864. He was perfectly familiar with every part of the road, and had traveled it all on foot from Sunbury. to Erie. He was one of the four original contractors who built the Oil Creek railroad, and also chief engineer of it. He was also engaged in the survey of the Warren and Franklin road at the time of his death. He was nominated by the Republican party in the counties of Clearfield, McKean, Jefferson and Elk for the Legislature, and represented them in the session of 1860-61, thus spending the winter in Harrisburg, his old home. He married, April 4, 1864, Hannah, daughter of Hon. John Green. He resided in Warren the last three or four years of his life and died there October 17, 1864, in his twenty-ninth year. He is buried in Harrisburg.
6. Book: Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 1889. 3
LAWRENCE, WILLIAM CALDWELL ANDERSON, lawyer, son of Joseph and Maria (Bucher) Lawrence, was born May 18, 1832, in Washington county, PA.
His grandfather, John Lawrence, of English birth, emigrated to America at an early day, and settled near Hunterstown, Adams county, Pa. There he married Sarah Moffet, by whom he had ten children. John Lawrence died about 1786, and three years afterwards his widow removed with her family to Washington county, and settled on a farm lying on the headwaters of Pigeon creek.
One of the sons of John Lawrence, John, settled at Beaver, Pa.; twice represented the county in the Legislature, subsequently removing to Delaware county, where he died. Samuel followed his brother to Beaver county, and located upon a farm. He was nine years prothonotary of the county, and twice elected to the State Assembly. He died about 1828.
Joseph Lawrence, the youngest of the family, remained in Washington county. In 1818 he was chosen to the Legislature, and served continuously until 1826, being speaker of the House during the sessions of 1820 and 1822. In 1826 he was elected to the Congress; in 1834 and 1835 returned to the Legislature, and in 1836 elected State treasurer. In 1838 he was a candidate for Congress, defeated by seventeen votes, but elected in 1840. He died in Washington, D. C., April 7, 1842.
He was twice married. By his first wife, Rebecca Van Eman, he had four children: Joseph, George V., Sarah and Samuel. By his second wife, Sarah Bucher, who died in 1861, he had five children: John J. James K., William C., Samuel and Susan.
William Caldwell Anderson Lawrence was educated at Washington College, where he graduated in 1850. He came to Harrisburg and began the study of law with John C. Kunkel. He was admitted to the Dauphin county bar August 31, 1853, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Harrisburg as law partner with Mr. Kunkel. He was elected to the Legislature in 1857, 1858 and 1859, and was speaker of the House of Representatives, sessions of 1859 and 1860. He died at Harrisburg, April 21, 1860.
7. Book: Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, 1914. 1
William Watson Lawrence, president of the National Lead Company, New York City, is a grandson of Joseph Lawrence, who was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1788, a son of John and Sarah (Moffitt) Lawrence. After the death of the father, the mother, with three sons and six daughters, removed to a farm eight miles east of Washington, Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1791. Joseph Lawrence received a limited education, and assisted in the cultivation of the farm. He was a representative in the State Legislature, 1818-24, and speaker for two sessions ; representative in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, 1825-29, where he supported the policy of Henry Clay, who was a personal friend, and the candidacy of John Quincy Adams for president. He was again a representative in the State Legislature, 1834-36; State Treasurer in 1837; and a representative in the Twenty-seventh Congress, 1841-42, but did not live to serve out this term. He was summoned from Washington in 1842 to the deathbed of a son and daughter, and while there contracted the disease that resulted in his death in Washington, D. C, April 17, 1842, the funeral oration being pronounced by James Buchanan, later President of the United States. He married (first), 1814, Rebecca Van Eman, who died in 1822, and (second), 1826, Maria Bucher, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. William Caldwell Anderson Lawrence (1832-1860), and Samuel Lawrence, both representatives in the Pennsylvania Legislature, were children of the second marriage.
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Joseph married Rebecca Van Eman in 1814.1 (Rebecca Van Eman was born on 7 Dec 1787 and died on 4 Jan 1822.)
Joseph next married Maria Bucher, daughter of Honorable John Jacob Bucher and Susanna Margaret Horter, on 4 Sep 1823 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA.2 (Maria Bucher was born on 4 Mar 1802 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA,2 4 died on 19 Apr 1861 in Harrisburg, Dauphin, PA 2 3 and was buried in Harrisburg: Harrisburg Cemetery, Dauphin, PA 2.)
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