Northumberland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Wragg, William 

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WILLIAM WRAGG, a well known citizen of Shamokin, Pa., has for many years been

one of the most prominent men in the town and is known throughout the county as

a man of high principles and ceaseless energy. He is an outside-foreman at the

Hickory Ridge Colliery and discharges his duties in a manner worthy of the

highest praise. He was born December 8, 1855, in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County,

Pa., and is a son of Benjamin and Anna (Booth) Wragg.



  Benjamin Wragg was a native of Derbyshire, England, and immigrated to America

about 1850, settling in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pa., where he died in 1871

at the age of fifty-one years. His occupation was that of a carpenter and he

followed his trade in England and in this country. From the time he came to this

country until his death, he was in the employ of John Donaldson & Company, coal

operators, acting as superintendent and foreman most of the time, and was for

four years prior to his death superintendent of the mines. His first wife was

also a native of England and she bore him three children all of whom died young.

His second wife was the mother of our subject and they were blessed with seven

children, as follows: William, the subject of this sketch; Samuel, who is

assistant outside-foreman at the Richards Colliery near Mount Carmel; Mary R;

John H., who is in the employ of the Union Coal Company as fireman; Benjamin F.,

who is blacksmith for the Union Coal Company at Hickory Swamp Colliery; Eliza

J., who is at home; and George W., who is an engineer at Hickory Swamp Colliery.



  William Wragg, the subject of this biography, for many years has been in the

mining business, for at the age of ten he began to work as a slate-picker in the

breaker, for the Donaldson Company, and later became shipping clerk for the same

company. Then for twenty years he was engineer for several different companies,

and on May 1, 1893, he accepted a position as outside-foreman at the Hickory

Swamp Colliery, under the operation of the Union Coal Company. This colliery

employs between 400 and 500 men and boys and Mr. Wragg's duties are many, but he

has performed them with such energy and zeal as to give entire satisfaction to

his employers and fellow-workmen. He was transferred to Hickory Ridge Colliery,

which also is operated by the Union Coal Company, on February 1, 1899.



  Politically Mr. Wragg is a strong Republican and he is always looking out for

the interests of his party. He married Emma J. Oliver, a daughter of Pierce

Oliver and a stepdaughter of Thomas Senger, who was one of the victims of the

famous "Mollie Maguire" uprising in Schuylkill County. Mr. and Mrs. Wragg have

been blessed with four children, namely: Gertrude; Rebie A.; Thomas S.; and Sarah

H.







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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)









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