Biography

02/11/1847 - 05/23/1912

McCOY, Charles Elliott, a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, February 11, 1847 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company M, 108th Regiment, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry (1865, Civil War); master plumber; elected, school director, 9th Ward, Philadelphia; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1880; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882); died, May 23, 1912 in Malvern, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.