Biography

01/21/1914

SMITH, William, F., a Representative from Philadelphia County; agent, American Life Insurance Company; elected, city council, Philadelphia (1854-1855); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1861; reelected to the House in 1862, 1863 (Union Republican) and 1864; elected, board of managers, House of Corrections, Philadelphia (1870); elected, select council, Philadelphia (1870); reelected to the House as a Republican in 1870; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1865, 1871); died, January 21, 1914 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Holy Sepulcher Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.