Mervin Johnston Eckels and Susan Tudor Kenly

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Husband Mervin Johnston Eckels ¹

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           Born: 18 Jun 1854 - near New Kingston, Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Clendenin Eckels (1824-1896) 2
         Mother: Mary Lee Kenyon (1828-      ) 3

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       Marriage: 11 Dec 1883 1

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Wife Susan Tudor Kenly ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Mervin Johnston Eckels

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He prepared for college at the Chambersburg Academy. He then entered Lafayette College and graduated from that institution in 1877. After his graduation from college he taught in the Academy at West Nottingham, Maryland, until 1879, when he entered the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny as a member of the class of 1882. He was ordained a minister of the gospel by the Presbytery of Baltimore in October, 1882. The first charge to which he was called was at Havre de Grace, Maryland, where he remained three years. Next he was called to Salisbury, Maryland, where he continued five years, after which he served a charge at Bradford, Pennsylvania, for three years. He then received and accepted a call to the West Arch Street Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. In 1894 Lafayette College conferred upon him the degree of D. D. He was a member of the Board of Publication of the Presbyterian Church; a trustee of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and a trustee of Wilson College, Chambersburg. During the summer of 1901, and again in 1904, he took trips abroad visiting England, Scotland and Ireland, also France, Switzerland, Italy, and other countries on the continent.

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General Notes: Wife - Susan Tudor Kenly

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from Harford Co, MD

1 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 126.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 121.

3 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 123.