Biography

11/17/1852 - 05/22/1894

POWEL, William Garrigues, a Representative from Delaware County; born, November 17, 1852 in Delaware County, Pa.; attended, Saunders Academy; attended, Maplewood Institute; engaged, iron hardware and coach material business, D.H. Kent and Co., Wilmington, De.; farmer; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1882; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1884, 1886); died, May 22, 1894 in Concord Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; interred, St. John’s Cemetery, Concord Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.