John Fausold, portrait hanging in the Fausold Alcove.

Public servant whose fifty-five year career, beginning in 1829, included five terms in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, seven terms as Justice of the peace in Westmoreland County and service as Revenue Commisioner of Indiana, Westmoreland, and Somerset counties in 1863, Sequestrartor of the Somerset-Mt Pleasant Turnpike, pioneer in Pennsylvania public education, and active school board member.