Biography

11/26/1819 - 03/06/1887

POWNALL, Joseph D., a Representative from Lancaster County; born, November 26, 1819; farmer; cattle dealer; elected, justice of the peace, Christiana (1845); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1856 and 1857; director, Bank of Chester Valley; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania State Senate (1869); died, March 6, 1887 in Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; interred, Sadsbury Friends Burial Grounds, Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.