John Edward Kunkle, Jr.

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Husband John Edward Kunkle, Jr. ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 13 Oct 1895 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Edward Kunkle (1862-1929) 2 3 4
         Mother: Alice Grant Walthour (1865-      ) 1 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - John Edward Kunkle, Jr.

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He attended the public schools of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and was graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1915. He then attended Dartmouth College, at Hanover, New Hampshire, being graduated in 1919 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For a year he studied law at Pittsburgh Law School and then, after reading in his father's office, was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1922. He was in partnership with his father until the latter's death. In 1930 Mr. Kunkle, Jr., became a member of the firm of Kunkle, Walthour and Trescher. Mr. Kunkle was a member of the Bar Association of Pennsylvania and of the Westmoreland County Bar Association. In political life he was a Republican.
For twenty months, during the first World War, Mr. Kunkle, Jr., served in the United States Navy. After enlisting on April 16, 1917, he was sent to the Training Station at Newport, Rhode Island, where he was commissioned an ensign. Then followed service on detached duty in the Caribbean Sea on the converted yacht, "Dorothea." Later, Ensign Kunkle served on the U. S. S. "Mississippi" and the U. S. S. "Indiana." He was discharged from the service on January 21, 1919.
Mr. Kunkle was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, belonging to Westmoreland Lodge, No. 518, Free and Accepted Masons, and achieved the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite. He was a deacon in the First Reformed Church of Greensburg, of which his father was elder for thirty years. Mr. Kunkle was a member and at one time president of Greensburg Rotary Club, and, for some years, he was president of the Westmoreland County Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was also a member of the Greensburg Country Club, the Latrobe Country Club, the University Club of Pittsburgh, Psi Sigma Kappa and Phi Delta Phi fraternities, the American Legion, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 649.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1240.

3 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 36.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 648.