Martin Goehring, Jr. and Lucy A. Shrader
Husband Martin Goehring, Jr. 1 2
AKA: Martin Gehring 3 Born: 16 Dec 1865 - Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Germany 1 Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: Martin Goehring, Sr. ( -Aft 1890) 1 Mother: Mary Hunter ( - ) 1
Marriage: 19 May 1887 1
Wife Lucy A. Shrader 1 4
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: William Shrader (1821-1882) 5 Mother: Diana M. Stacy (Abt 1821-1894) 6
Children
1 F Mary Elizabeth Goehring 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Martin Goehring, Jr.
He was reared at West Newton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and received his education in the public schools of that place. He afterwards became a clerk in the mercantile establishment of S. C. Weimer at West Newton, and served in that capacity for three years. He was then employed to take charge of the company store of R. H. Latimer & Co. and in 1883 became a member of the firm. In 1884 the company combined with another company under the firm name of Patterson Co., limited, and he became manager of their combined stores. This position he held until November, 1888, when he resigned on account of ill health and took a long-needed vacation. In February, 1889, he formed a co-partnership with Hirman Aultman of Adamsburg, and they engaged in the mercantile business at Manor station. Their store was in the new Odd Fellow building and they carried a full line of dry goods, staple and fancy groceries, notions, boots and shoes, glassware and etc.
Mr. Goehring lost all his household effects by the fire at Manor on Wednesday, December 4, 1889.
He was a member of Westmoreland Lodge, No. 518, A. Y. M., of Greensburg, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a democrat in politics. He and his wife were members of the Evangelical Lutheran church.
1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 359.
2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1119.
3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 902.
4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 902, 1119.
5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 902, 1118, 1242.
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Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 902, 1119, 1242.
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