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Findley, William

governor, United States senator, was born in Franklin county, Pa. He was governor of Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1820, and was a senator in congress from that state from 1821 to 1827. He died Nov. 14, 1846.

FINDLEY, WILLIAM, congressman, author, was born about 1758 in Ireland.

He was a member of congress from Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1799 and from 1803 to 1817. He published a Review of the Funding System in 1794, and a History of the Insurrection of the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania, in 1796. He died April 5, 1821, in Greensburg, Pa.

FINDLEY, WILLIAM THORNTON, clergyman, was born June 2, 1814, in West.

Middletown, Pa. He has held pastorates at Chillicothe, Springfield, and Xenia, Ohio, and Newark, N. J.; and in 1867-68 edited the Family Treasure, published in Cincinnati.

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