Biography

1802 - 07/18/1885

McABEE, William, a Representative from York County; born, circa 1802 in Maryland; retail merchant; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Shrewsbury (1840-1845); unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1844); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1845; reelected to the House as a Whig in 1846; shoemaker; died, July 18, 1885 in Shrewsbury, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Shrewsbury, York County, Pennsylvania.