Biography

03/19/1863 - 12/29/1942


WRIGLEY, Byron Earl, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, March 19, 1863 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; manufacturer, soap; director, secretary, and president, Wrigley Manufacturing Co.; appointed, member, Philadelphia Board of Health (1899); member, 33rd Ward Republican Executive Committee; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1902 and 1904; resigned from the House, April 12, 1905; elected, city magistrate, Philadelphia (1905-1921); died, December 29, 1942 in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona; interred, Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
 


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