Paul Shupe Barnhart and M. Alice Breck

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Husband Paul Shupe Barnhart ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 16 Sep 1880 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 4 5
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         Father: William R. Barnhart (1841-1922) 1 5 6
         Mother: Catherine Sherrick Shupe (      -1917) 1 5 7

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       Marriage: 25 Mar 1909 - Scranton, Lackawanna Co, PA 4 5

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Wife M. Alice Breck ^{5 8}

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         Father: William O. Breck (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Anna E. Toof (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Eleanor Pauline Barnhart ^{4 5}

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2 F Alice Elizabeth Barnhart ^{4 5}

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3 F Catharine May Barnhart ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Paul Shupe Barnhart

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He was born on the Barnhart homestead in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1903 he lived in Greensburg. He received his elementary education in the township schools and completed the high school course in Greensburg. Since he early showed promise as a student, he was enabled to continue his education at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1903. For four years he was engaged with the Westmoreland Savings and Trust Company (later the Barclay-Westmoreland Trust Company), in Greensburg. But he was a very ambitious man, with the love and habit of study and hard work deeply ingrained. He therefore studied law, continuously under the guidance of the well-known firm of Beacom & Newill, and completed his training in that profession by a year at the Pittsburgh Law School. In 1908 he was admitted to practice in the courts of Westmoreland County and, in 1910, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He maintained his own office until January, 1922, when the law firm of Beacom, Barnhart & Ankney was established, with offices in Greensburg and Monessen.
Mr. Barnhart's political affiliations were with the Republicans. During the World War he did a prodigious amount of plodding work with questionnaires. For several years he was a member of the School Board, where his progressive, yet judicial temper, and broad experience as a financier influenced the board in the direction of progress. He was a director of the Barclay-Westmoreland Trust Company, and was a Past Master, by service, of local Lodge No. 518, Free and Accepted Masons. He was also a member of other higher Masonic bodies, including the Consistory and Shrine. On January 26, 1922, Mr. Barnhart suffered the loss of his father, a fine old man, who remained hale and energetic to the end of his life and who bore an enviable reputation in the community.

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General Notes: Wife - M. Alice Breck

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She was graduated from Wellesley College in 1905, and was head of the modern language department of the Greensburg High School from 1905 to 1907.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 655.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 101, 336.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 92.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 103.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 93.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 102, 335.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 102, 336.

8 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 336.