Jonas Mechling Kistler and Flora Edith Spear

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Husband Jonas Mechling Kistler ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Jonas Maclin Kistler 3
           Born: 29 Aug 1858 - Franklin Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Samuel Kistler (1799/1802-1884) 1 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Eva S. Loughner (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 19 Sep 1883 6

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Wife Flora Edith Spear ^{2 6}

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         Father: John C. Spear (      -      ) 6
         Mother: Matilda J. McGuire (      -      ) 6

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Children

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1 M Robert L. Kistler ⁶

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2 M Harry A. Kistler ⁶

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3 F Mildred M. Kistler ⁶

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General Notes: Husband - Jonas Mechling Kistler

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He was reared on the home farm in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, there educated in the common schools, and when seventeen years old left home for Iowa and Nebraska, in which states he worked as a farm hand for two years. In the autumn of 1879, Mr. Kistler returned to Pennsylvania and in the following spring became a locomotive fireman on the Pennsylvania railroad, being promoted to an engineer in the autumn of 1885, and for ten years continued with that company as engineman. In 1895 Mr. Kistler engaged in the butcher and dairy business at Derry Station, near Latrobe, where he remained for eighteen months; then for two years was manager of a grocery business at Irwin; in March, 1899, located at Homestead, Pennsylvania, where he conducted a variety store for nine months, then entered the employ of the Prudential insurance company as a solicitor and six months later was appointed to the position of assistant superintendent, with headquarters at Homestead.
and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church and he was a member of Hiram lodge, No. 69, Ancient Order of United Workmen, of Irwin Station; Shidle lodge, No. 601, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of the republican party.

1 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 313.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1280.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 426.

4 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 448.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 608.

6 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 314.