Biography

09/20/1817 - 11/21/1879

McCONKEY, William B., a Representative from York County; born, September 20, 1817 in Peach Bottom, York County, Pa.; toll collector, Pennsylvania Canal, Wrightsville; elected as a Temperance Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1854; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1855); proprietor and manager, Aurora Furnaces; president, First National Bank of Wrightsville; died, November 21, 1879 in Wrightsville, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Fairview Cemetery, Wrightsville, York, Pennsylvania.