Clark Warden Eicher and Sarah Glunt
Husband Clark Warden Eicher 1 2
AKA: C. Ward Eicher 3 4 Born: 17 Jun 1874 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Alexander Eicher (1851-1905) 3 5 Mother: Mary Ella McClelland ( -1898) 1 2 3
Marriage:
Wife Sarah Glunt 1 2 4
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Children
1 F Sarah Katherine Eicher 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
2 F Josephine Lenhart Eicher 2 4
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John Barclay, Jr. (1900- ) 6 Marr: 16 Jan 1926 4
3 F Louise Eicher 2
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4 F Flora Glunt Eicher 2
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General Notes: Husband - Clark Warden Eicher
He was Assistant District Attorney and a member of the law firm of Eicher and Eicher.
He attended the schools of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and Washington & Jefferson College, at Washington, Pennsylvania. He was a member of Company I, Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment, and served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American war, as a sergeant. He became a lawyer, a member of the Westmoreland county bar, and practiced with his father under the firm name of Eicher & Eicher.
He was interested in the coal industry, operating also in real estate, and being especially interested in the Belmont Land Company. He did considerable work in political campaigns as a speaker. He filled the office of the county chairman of the Democratic organization and served as delegate to state conventions from Cleveland's time.
He took a deep interest in juvenile work and did much to assist the cause, first in the Young Men's Christian Association work, in which he was very active after its establishment in Greensburg, and also in the office of district attorney. He was always a devoted friend of the boys and during his term of office the juvenile probation officer was created and a Home of Detention was established. He was elected to the office of district attorney in 1913, filling the office for one term.
He was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, up to and including the thirty-second degree, also a member of the Syrian Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He belonged to the Christian church, was deeply interested in Sunday school work, and had one of the largest adult Sunday school classes in the county.
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Glunt
from Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 78.
2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 544.
3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 86.
4 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 439.
5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 77.
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Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 438.
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