Background
Magrady, Frederick W. was born on November 24, 1863 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Isabel (McConaghy) Magrady.
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Magrady, Frederick W. was born on November 24, 1863 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William and Isabel (McConaghy) Magrady.
Bachelor of Engineering, Bloomsburg State Normal School, 1890, Mechanical Engineering, 1892. Bachelor of Laws, Dickinson School Law, 1909.
He taught school thirteen years in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. He briefly engaged in the coal business at Gauley, West Virginia. He graduated from Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1909, was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Mount Carmel.
He was director and solicitor of the First National Bank of Mount Carmel, president and solicitor of the Shamokin-Mount Carmel Transit Company, and of the Ashland & Shamokin Auto Business Company, Incorporated.
He also worked as director of the Mount Carmel Water Company
Magrady was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932.
He resumed the practice of law, and died in Danville, Pennsylvania. Interment in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania.
He died in 1954, at the age of 90 years, and was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery.
Member 69th to 72d Congresses, 17th Pennsylvania District. Member and legal adviser Selective Service Board Northern 5, Mount Carmel, since 1942. Member American, Pennsylvania, Northumberland County bar associations.
Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle), Old.
Married Mary Kiefer.