The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-08-27
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County Chairman Cassidy, Assembly, w
y. Biery, District Attorner J. 3. Fisher.
rup COUNTY, CHAIRMAN

County Chairman Cassidy, Assembly w.
n. Biery, District Attorner =. s. Fisher.
THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN.
lE-MIcHAEL CASSIDY, the Democratic
County Chairman, was born in what is
now known as Nesquehoning, in Mauch
Chunk township, the 25th day Of Jan
uary, 1884. He attended the common
schools there and worked In the coal
breaker and mines until boyhood days
had passed when he entered the Mil.
lersville State Normal School as a stu
dent; after two years close application
to study he graduated with credit. He
passed a successful examination and
taught the young idea how to shoot"
from 1872 to 1877. At the county cleo
tion in 1878 he was elected a member
of the State Assembly along with DR..
]. G. Zern. His first term was so cred
liable that he was again taken up by
the Democracy and reelected for two
years. He distinguished himself while
a State Legislator for ability, and in
tegrity to the masses of tax paying
people by voting against the Pittsburg
riot steal of s4OOO,OOO, thus saving s40-
600 to Carbon County people. From
January 1885 to January 1859 he acted
in the capacity of Commissioners
Clerk. He is now associated with Dis
trict Attorney VIM. NJ. Rapsher, under
the firm name of Rapsher & Cassidy,
attorneys. The management a of politi-
cal campaign is not entirely new to
him, he having been for several years
secretary of the county committee at
the time when G. w. Esser was chair.
man. He is we'll and popularity known
besides being an indefatiRable worker,
and will make a live chairman of the
county committee.
REPRESENTATIVES,.
~ The nomination of our popular
young townsman, w. f. Biery, by the
Democrats for the Office of Assembly,
meets with the hearty approval of all
our people. Mr.. Biery is an honest,
energetic young business man and will
poll large vote and be elected. Mr..
Biery was born in Catasauqus and he
was only four years of age when his
father moved to Hickory Run where
he had big saw mill; for the past If
teen years, however, the Democratic
candidate has been resident of Weiss
port. For eight years he has been in
the drug business and is looked upon
as one of our popular, honest and pro-
gressive business men. He has been a
member of the school board for six
years past, has been for many years an
Odd Fellow and is also a Red Man.
The nomination of Mr. Biery come un-
solicited. He is a strong candidate
and will be elected by big majority
because he represents the common
peoples many interests.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
lH- JOSEPH S. FISHER, candidate for
District Attorney, was born 3S years
ago in the mining village of jamestown,
Panther Creek Valley, Carbon county
(now part of the borough of Summit
HID. At the age of 8 years he entered
the breaker of the Lehigh Coal & Navi-
cation Company as q slate picker, at
which occupation he was employed for
the next three years. At the age of
twelve he moved with his parents to
the state of Missouri, where for the
next four years he was employed in
farming, at the expiration of which
time the family returned to Summit
Hill. Mr.. Fisher then a youth of six
teen years, without even the merest
rudiments of an education, again en-
tered the coal mines and labored there
in for the next four years, during
which time in addition to his daily
labor he acquired sufficient education
to engage in school teaching when he
had barely attained the age of n years,
which occupation he successfully fol-
lowed in his native township until the
year 1884, attaining the highest grade
of Teachers Certificate. In the year
1884 he entered the law office of Messrs.
Craig & Loose in hauch Chunk and
by close application to study, so far
mastered the technicalities of the law,
as to pass a creditable examination
therein, and was in June 1885 admitted
to the bar, since which time he has
been in active practice in Mauch Chunk
and for three years filled the Office of
District Attorney to which Office he
has been renominRted.