Biography

10/13/1852 - 09/10/1918

STEVENSON, William P., a Representative from Mifflin County; born, October 13, 1852 in Fayette, Pa.; engaged, mercantile business (1873-1883); cashier, McVeytown Bank; elected, council (2 terms), school director (6 years), justice of the peace, McVeytown; engaged in mining and shipping of flint glass sand; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1886 and 1888; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1890); president, McVeytown National Bank; superintendent, Pennsylvania Glass Sand Company; appointed, State Forestry Commission (1914-1918); died, September 10, 1918 in McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mattawan Cemetery, McVeytown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.