Biography

01/20/1867 - 10/04/1938


HOCKENBERRY, William Rush, a Representative from Butler County; born in Cherry Township, Butler County, Pa., January 20, 1867; attended, West Sunbury Academy; graduated, Medical School, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1897; school teacher; physician; elected, delegate, Republican State Convention (1901); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 1904 General election; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1906); died, October 4, 1938 in Slippery Rock, Butler County, Pennsylvania; interred, Slippery Rock Cemetery, Slippery Rock, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
 


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