Biography

09/08/1858 - 10/27/1942

McGOWAN, Howard G., a Representative from Berks County; born in Union Township, Berks County, Pa., September 8, 1858; hardware store clerk; employed, Adams Express Company; farmer; elected, State Board of Agriculture, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1906 and reelected in 1910; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1908, 1912); died, October 27, 1942 in Berks County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church Cemetery, Geigertown, Berks County, Pennsylvania.