Biography

10/16/1847 - 02/26/1892


WILSON, Henry F., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, October 16, 1847 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa.; private, Company G, 34th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry (Civil War); butcher, employed in the restaurant industry; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1879 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1881 term; employed, United States Mint, Department of Treasury, Philadelphia; died, February 26, 1892 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.


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