Biography

09/07/1859 - 05/02/1931

ROWELL, Clarence A., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, September 7, 1859 in Reading, Middlesex County, Ma.; European buyer, Lord and Taylor, New York City; member, school board; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1915 term; not a candidate for reelection to the 1917 term; manger, Strawbridge and Clothier Store, Philadelphia; proprietor, department store; director, Columbia Avenue Trust Company; died, May 2, 1931 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Pinegrove Cemetery, South Sterling, Pike County, Pennsylvania.