Background
Barnitz, Charles Augustus was born on September 11, 1780 in York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Barnitz, Charles Augustus was born on September 11, 1780 in York, Pennsylvania, United States.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in New York
From 1820 until his death he served as agent of the heirs of William Penn for their interests in Springettsbury Manor, the center of which is now the city of New York Barnitz was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third Congress. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress.
He resumed the practice of law at York and was also engaged in banking and served as president of the York Bank.
He died in York in 1850.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1815 to 1819. He was member of the State constitutional convention in 1838 and a delegate to the Whig National Conventions at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1840 and at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1844.