Biography

09/27/1848 - 05/11/1920

MACOMBER, Wilson Zenas, a Representative from York County; born, September 27, 1848 in Peach Bottom Township, York County, Pa.; private, Company C, 13th Regiment, Maryland Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865, Civil War); quartermaster, United States Navy, USS Constellation, USS Susquehanna, and USS New Hampshire (1865-1868); farmer; carpenter, contractor and builder; engaged in canning business (1881-1884); clerk and auditor, Delta Township, Pa.; elected, delegate, Democratic State Conventions; proprietor, Stubbs & Macomber, lumber and coal business; secretary, treasurer and manager, Delta Electric Power Company; cashier and director, Peoples National Bank of Delta; president, Delta Board of Trade; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1898; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1900); manager, W. Z. Macomber & Co., flour mill; died, May 11, 1920 in Delta, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Slate Ridge Cemetery, Delta, York County, Pennsylvania.