Biography

06/28/1808 - 07/04/1875

HENRY, William, a Representative from Beaver and Lawrence Counties; born, June 28, 1808 in Beaver, Beaver County, Pa.; printer, proprietor and editor, The Western Argus and The Beaver Argus (1831-1851); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Mount Jackson, Pa. (1832); trustee, Bank of Beaver; elected, treasurer, Beaver County (1857-1859); farmer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1862 and 1863 terms; reelected to the House as a Union Republican for the 1864 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1865 term; died, July 4, 1875 in Fallston, Beaver County, Pennsylvania; interred, Beaver Cemetery and Mausoleum, Beaver, Beaver County, Pennsylvania