Adam Q. Mechling

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Husband Adam Q. Mechling ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 7 Feb 1859 3
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         Father: Josiah J. Mechling (      -1899) 1 2 3
         Mother: Catharine O. Tinstman (1829-      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Adam Q. Mechling

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In the spring of the year 1886 he went west to the state of Washington, the Pacific coast, where he was later joined by his brother O. J. Here the two of them entered five hundred acres of land covered with valuable timber, the tract lying along the Sauk river. They were the first (white) persons who ever remained on the river through the winter. In the fall of 1890 O. J. Mechling returned to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in accordance with the request of his father, and took charge of the home farm, eventually inheriting the old homestead through the terms of the will made by his father.
Adam also returned, but in the following spring he again went west and in the succeeding winter he was caught in the forest in a severe snowstorm, being fourteen days without food or shelter. He finally reached an Indian camp and by the red-men was taken to the closest town where he was placed in a hospital. Both his feet were so badly frozen that amputation was necessary.

1 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), BP 58.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 417.

3 Rev. A. J. Fretz, A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer (Milton, NJ: The Evergreen News, 1903), Pg 92.