Biography

05/03/1787 - 06/18/1857


SNODGRASS, William, Sr., a Representative from York County; born, May 3, 1787 in Pennsylvania; attended, Pennsylvania College (now Gettysburg College); private, 1st Battalion, 135th Regiment, 16th Division, United States Army (1812, War of 1812); storekeeper; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Farmers, Pa. (1832); farmer; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1839; died, June 18, 1857 in Jackson Township, York County, Pennsylvania; interred, Trinity Roths United Church of Christ Cemetery, Spring Grove, York County, Pennsylvania. 


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