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Marriage: Children:
  1. John Wolfenden: Birth: 15 NOV 1911. Death: 31 MAR 1964 in Friends Southwest Cemetery, Cardington, PA

  2. Florence Esther Wolfenden: Birth: 19 AUG 1913. Death: 19 MAR 1978 in Friends Southwest Cemetery, Cardington, PA


Notes
a. Note:   Member of the House of Representatives (Congress). He was the senior member of the lower chamber when he retired in 1946 after 18 years' service. He was elected to Congress in November, 1928, succeeding the late Thomas Butler, who represented Chester and Delaware counties. Several months later Delaware County was made a separate Congressional district.
  He was a 32nd degree Mason.
  He was a member of the McClure Delaware County War Board.
  In May, 1946 James Wolfenden was a guest on a friend's boat in New Jersey when an engine backfire caused the boat's fuel to ignite and explode. Wolfenden was sprayed with flaming gasoline, and the force of the blast blew him overboard.He suffered first and second degree burns and required several operations on his permanently injured left foot. Wolfenden's health declined as a result of these injuries, and he died at Temple University Hospital while undergoing surgery.


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