Squire William M. Leffler and Harriet Lenhart

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Husband Squire William M. Leffler ^{1 2}

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           Born: 5 Oct 1847 - Etna, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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         Father: George Leffler (      -1859) 3 4
         Mother: Alice Wise (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: 13 Jun 1867 - Penn Station, Westmoreland Co, PA 5

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Wife Harriet Lenhart ¹

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         Father: Michael Lenhart (      -      ) 5
         Mother: Catherine [Unk] (      -      ) 5

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Children

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1 F Anna Lurella Leffler ⁵

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2 F Mary Myrtle Leffler ⁶

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         Spouse: David Duff Berlin (      -      ) 6

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3 F Lyda Jeannette Leffler ^{1 5}

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         Spouse: John Addison Wilson (1872-      ) 7
           Marr: 14 Jul 1893 1

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4 M James Marsh Leffler ⁵

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         Spouse: Maude Woodmansey (      -      ) 5

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5 M Harry Ralph Leffler ⁵

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         Spouse: Edna L. Hall (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Squire William M. Leffler

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He was born at Etna, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and was eight years old when the family moved to Circleville, Westmoreland County. For three years he attended the public schools of that place, his parents then making another migration, this time to Port Perry, Allegheny County, where the boy again attended school. At the end of a year the family returned to Westmoreland county, settling at Jacksonville, William M. then going to live with James Black at Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania. For ten months he worked on Mr. Black's farm and at the same time was given an opportunity to continue his education. In 1860 Mr. Leffler returned to Jacksonville, where he obtained work in the coal mines at the handsome salary of ten cents a day, but at the end of a year was advanced to twenty-five cents. When we consider that he was then but a boy of fourteen this appears truly remarkable. He worked under the superintendency of the late Squire Carothers, of Irwin, and remained in the mines for ten years, becoming at the end of that time boss driver, a position which he retained for five years. He then purchased a general merchandise store and undertaking establishment at Jacksonville. The concern was an old one, having been long conducted by William Truxell, and for seven years the business was successfully continued by Mr. Leffler. Moving from Jacksonville to Circleville he was for eight years engaged in teaming on his own account. In 1895 Mr. Leffler entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as car-builder, and fifteen years later was promoted to the position of gang leader. When he reached the age appointed for retirement, he became a pensioner of the railroad.
In every place in which he resided Mr. Leffler took an active interest in local politics and in each one has served as justice of the peace, having been elected to that office in Jacksonville in 1887, subsequently chosen to fill it in Circleville and in Trafford, serving from 1905 to 1916. He was the first one to fill the office under the incorporation of the borough of Trafford in 1904. Prior to this he had served for three years as school director in North Huntingdon township and from the inception of the Board of Trade he was numbered among its members. He witnessed the growth of Trafford and, to the utmost of his power, aided every project which in his judgment promised benefit and improvement to the town.
At the time Pennsylvania was invaded by the Confederates under General Lee, Mr. Leffler, then in his sixteenth year, worked on the entrenchments at Braddock, being thus employed for three days, but was too young for military service. For almost fifty years he was an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church and rendered financial assistance in the building of the edifice at Circleville as well as in the erection of the structure at Trafford, in which he held the office of steward. For a few years he was superintendent of the Sunday school and from the age of twenty-one was a Sunday school teacher. He eventually became the instructor of a Bible class of sixty members.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 545.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1090.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1091.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 579.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1092.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 843, 1092.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 544.