Biography

05/16/1843 - 09/04/1889

MORGAN, William Smiley, a Representative from Somerset County; born, May 16, 1843 in Quemahoning Township, Somerset County, Pa.; teacher; wool manufacturer; engaged, lumber mill; engaged, merchandising business; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Quemahoning; justice of the peace; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1883 and 1885 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1886); died, September 4, 1889 in Quemahoning Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery, Jerome, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.