Background
Fry, Jacob was born on June 10, 1802 in Trappe, Pennsylvania, United States.
Fry, Jacob was born on June 10, 1802 in Trappe, Pennsylvania, United States.
He taught school in Trappe, and served as clerk of courts of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, form 1830 to 1833. Fry was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838.
He served as auditor general of Pennsylvania from 1857 to 1860.
He resumed mercantile pursuits and died in Trappe in 1866. Interment in Lutheran Cemetery.
He engaged in mercantile business in Trappe and was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1853 and 1854.