Biography

11/12/1850 - 10/30/1931

REDDING, William Augustus, a Representative from Montgomery County; born, November 12, 1850 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; graduated, law department, University of Pennsylvania, 1876; clerk, W.E. & E. Dunbar Lockwood, folding boxes, tags and envelope manufacturers; lawyer (1873-1931); partner, Redding, Jones, & Carson; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1884; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1886); member, board of trustees, University of Pennsylvania (1916); president, American Patent Lawyers Association (1915-1916); died, October 30, 1931 in New York, New York County, New York.