Biography

10/31/1850 - 02/03/1941

GUINNIP, William Baker, a Representative from Wayne County; born, October 31, 1850 in Damascus Township, Wayne County, Pa.; teacher; farmer; proprietor, general store; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1884; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1886); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1890, 1922); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Atco, Pa. (1891-1910); school director, Wayne County; director, Farmers & Mechanics Bank; died, February 3, 1941 in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; interred, Glen Dyberry Cemetery, Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.