Biography

06/30/1856 - 07/18/1938

WILE, Franklin G., a Representative from Montgomery County; born, June 30, 1856 in Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pa.; attended, Washington Hall Academy; teacher (12 years); engaged, grocery business; clerk, United States Postal Service, Philadelphia; chicken farmer; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1890; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1892); justice of the peace, Franconia Township; died, July 18, 1938 in Telford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; interred, Christ Reformed Church of Indian Creek Cemetery, Telford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.