Dr. Thomas Mehard and Mary Henry

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Husband Dr. Thomas Mehard ¹

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           Born: 29 Jul 1844 - Wayne Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 2
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         Father: Robert Mehard (1813-1888) 3 4
         Mother: Christina Liebendorfer (Abt 1812-1886) 4

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Wife Mary Henry ²

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Thomas Mehard

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He was born on the old home place in Wayne Township, Lawrence County, PA, and after com­pleting the courses taught in the common schools, attended Westminster College. He then began his preparation for the medical profession, and in February, 1870, was graduated from Western Reserve Medical College, at Cleveland, Ohio. Immediately thereafter he located at Wampum, PA, where he engaged in practice with unusual suc­cess for a period of twenty-one years. A stanch Republican in politics, he served in the town council and on the School Board, and in November, 1888, was elected to the State Senate of Pennsylvania, from the Lawrence and Mercer District, by an overwhelming majority of 4,000 votes. He served on a number of important commit­tees the first year, and in the session of 1891 was chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations, and a member of the Committees on Appropriation, Agricul­ture, Health and Sanitation, Retrench­ment and Reform, and Public Buildings. He was an important factor in the finan­cial affairs in his home village, owning a large flouring mill at Wampum, an interest in the Wampum Run Coal Company, and considerable business and residence prop­erty. He had, also, valuable realty hold­ings in Cleveland. Fraternally, he was a member of Wampum Lodge No. 865, I. O. O. F., and the Masonic Lodge at New Castle.
He and his wife had three daughters and one son.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Henry

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from Sewickley, PA

1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 706.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 707.

3 Editor, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 446.

4 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 705.