Biography

07/20/1886 - 07/14/1964

PARKINSON, Chauncey Wiley, a Representative from Greene County; born in Nineveh, Greene County, Pa., July 20, 1886; graduated Waynesburg College, 1909; private, Company K, 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard (1904-1911); funeral director (48 years); trustee, Waynesburg College (1918-1964); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1923 term and served 1 more consecutive term thereafter; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1926); elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1927-1934); died, July 14, 1964 in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania.