Biography

11/15/1836 - 06/21/1889

CARBERRY, William, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, November 15, 1836 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; private, Company K, 17th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); printer; proprietor, hotel and saloon; elected, school director; elected, council, 3rd Ward, Philadelphia; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1883, 1885, and 1887 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1888);; died, June 21, 1889 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.