Biography

03/05/1858 - 08/01/1899


BARNES, William Edwin, a Representative from Dauphin County; born, March 5, 1858 in Shiremanstown, Cumberland County, Pa.; printer, Harrisburg Telegraph; banker; president, Friendship Fire Company; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1886 and 1888; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1890); elected, board secretary, Harrisburg School district; died, August 1, 1899 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.


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