Col. William T. Mechling and Mary E. McJunkin

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Husband Col. William T. Mechling ¹

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           Born: 5 Apr 1856 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Simon Mechling (1834-1866) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Ziegler (      -Aft 1895) 1

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       Marriage: 10 Apr 1878 1

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Wife Mary E. McJunkin ³

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         Father: James T. McJunkin (1820-1885) 4 5 6
         Mother: Martha Rose (1824-1896) 6 7

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1 F Mary E. Mechling ¹

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2 F Martha Helen Mechling ¹

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3 F Clara Magaw Mechling ^{1 8}

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           Born: May 1885 - Pennsylvania 8
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         Spouse: Orange Wilson Russell (1884-      ) 8 9

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4 F Georgia R. Mechling ¹

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5 F Margaret L. Mechling ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Col. William T. Mechling

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He learned the printer's trade in the office of the Democratic Herald, at which he worked for two years after serving his apprenticeship. He then engaged in clerking for various persons in the oil field, and subsequently filled the position of first deputy clerk of courts under Cochran and Wright for four years. He was afterwards bookkeeper for S. G. Purvis & Company eight years, and filled a similar position with the Jarecki Manufacturing Company, and then occupied the position of assistant manager with the Oil Well Supply Company. In 1886 he was elected to the council, and served in that body six years, being president during this time. He was elected with others of that period on the question of public improvements, independent of party, and during his service the street paving, sewering, lighting and many other improvements were carried out by the coun­cil and the town has since become quite modernized. Colonel Mechling was one of the promoters and original stockholders of the Armory Building, and in many other ways showed his public enterprise. He was one of the leading Democrats of Butler county, and took a deep interest in the success of his party. He joined Company A, Old Thirteenth Regiment National Guard, served two years as a non-commissioned officer, and was then promoted to second lieutenant of Company E, Sixteenth Regiment, and afterwards to first lieutenant, serving eight years in those two ranks. He was then elected captain of Company E, Fifteenth Regiment, and subsequently colonel. He served in the Pittsburg riots of 1877 with the Thirteenth Regiment, and spent seventy-one days at Homestead in 1892, with the Fifteenth Regiment, being provost marshal of the town during that period. He was a member of Connoquenessing Lodge, Number 278, I. O. O. F., also of Butler Lodge, Number 170, B. P. O. E. Both he and his wife were members of the Protestant Episcopal church of Butler.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 731.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 730.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 731, 735.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 410x, 414.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 735, 1043.

6 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 160.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 735.

8 Michael Coleman(?), Descendant Report for ? Russell (Personal research, Web-published, 2012), Pg 2.

9 C. Hale Sipe, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Topeka - Indianapolis: Historical Publishing Co., 1927), Pg 867.