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who was the wife of David Reynolds Kerr (deceased) ; Eva, who is the wife of Louis
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H. Parker; Harry J., who is an extensive oil Presbyterian Church at Elderton, this county, operator and producer, residing at Pittsburgh; and later stationed at Athens, Ohio (he now Jane, deceased, who was the wife of Howard S. resides in Washington, D. C., where he Austin ; Fullerton, who is an oil producer and preaches occasionally ).
operator at Woodsfield, Ohio; and Margaret, who is the wife of Charles H. Adams, of Ben Avon, Pennsylvania.
Fullerton Parker, youngest son of the late Ephraim H. Parker, is a veteran of the
Spanish-American war. He enlisted May 9, tary service, entering Company E, 103d Pa. 1898, becoming a private in Company H, Vol. Inf., and serving until the war closed. Ioth Regiment, and was mustered into the He endured many of the hardships attend- United States service May 11, 1898; was appointed corporal May 9, 1899; and after serving in the Philippine Islands was honor- ably discharged at San Francisco, Cal., Aug. I, 1899, by Col. H. B. Freeman, commandant of that post.
WILLIAM S. MECHLING (deceased), for many years a prominent business man of Dayton, Armstrong county, was born Nov. 2, 1837, in Butler county, Pa., and died at his home in Dayton, Feb. 8, 1893. He was a soldier of the Civil war.
Dewalt Mechling was born in Holland, and in 1728, with his wife Elizabeth, came to America and settled in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. They had one son, Jacob.
Jacob Mechling, son of Dewalt, served in the Revolutionary war and was with General Washington at Valley Forge. The name of his wife has not been preserved.
John Mechling, son of Jacob and grand- father of the late William S. Mechling, was born Sept. 30, 1768. He married Margaret Sams, born June 6, 1778, and they had the He united with the Presbyterian Church in following children: Mary, born March 14, early manhood and later transferred his mem- 1794 ; Carolina, Feb. 6, 1796; William, March bership to West Sunbury, and when he came 5, 1798; Elizabeth, May 30, 1800; John, to Dayton one of his first cares was to have March 27, 1802; Margaret, March 18, 1804; his membership credentials presented to the Joseph, May 28, 1806; Sarah, Feb. 21, 1809; Glade Run Presbyterian Church. His remains Harriet, June 16, 1811; and Esther, Aug. lie in the cemetery belonging to this church, 7, 1814. his resting place being marked by a beautiful
William Mechling, son of John, was one and appropriate monument. During many of the early settlers in Butler county, Pa., years he was active in the organization and where he followed farming. He married affairs of J. Edward Turk Post, G. A. R., Catherine Kuhn, who died in Butler county and he belonged to the Odd Fellows and the Masons. in 1850, after which Mr. Mechling moved to Scioto county, Ohio, where his death occurred. Mr. Mechling married Mary R. Stewart, a daughter of William and Eliza Jane (Gibson) Stewart. She survives and resides at Dayton, where she is interested in the Glade Run Pres- byterian Church and in the W. C. T. U. Their family included seven children, all of To William and Catherine Mechling the fol- lowing children were born: George W., who became a Presbyterian minister and for many years was pastor of the Glade Run Church at Dayton; Henry; Newton; Joseph and Sophia, twins, the latter of whom married whom survive with the exception of Sarah N. Daniel Shaver; John; William S .; and The others are: Laura, who married John Lycurgus, the last named having charge of a K. Sacksman; William; Alice : Catherine J.,
William S. Mechling attended the district schools and then learned coachmaking. Pre- vious to the outbreak of the Civil war he was in business at West Sunbury, Butler Co., Pa. On Nov. 20, 1861, he enlisted for mili-
ing a soldier's life, but at all times preserved his courage and performed every duty. He participated in the battles of Yorktown, the Wilderness, Kinston, Little Washington and Plymouth, and at the last named place was taken prisoner on April 20, 1864. With his comrades who had been equally unfortunate he was loaded on a cattle car after a period of imprisonment at Florence, N. C., and they were landed at Andersonville, Ga., Mr. Mech- ling being kept in that terrible prison pen until Feb. 28, 1865, when he was released, having starved, thirsted and dragged out a miserable existence in that abominable place for several months. For three months and six days he was corporal of his company. His honorable discharge came April 10, 1865.
After the war Mr. Mechling returned to West Sunbury and resumed business there, continuing thus until 1869, when he came to Dayton, Pa., engaging here in carriage manu- facturing and also in undertaking. He car- ried on business until death closed his activity. He was a well known and much respected man.
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who is a teacher in the Pittsburgh high school ; Curtis C., who is a physician at Pittsburgh; and Mary E., who was a teacher in the high school at Canonsburg, Pa., now a high school teacher in Pittsburgh.
WILLIAM MECHLING, son of William S. Mechling, was born at West Sunbury, Butler Co., Pa., March 24, 1868. He attended the public schools and the Glade Run Academy and then learned the trade of carriagemaking and the business of undertaking, with his father. He was associated with his father and after the latter's death continued the business at Dayton, where he is numbered with the representative business men.
On Sept. 6, 1911, William Mechling mar- ried Blanche Kirkpatrick, a daughter of David and Elizabeth (Schall) Kirkpatrick. He is identified with the Odd Fellows and belongs also to the Sons of Veterans. Some members of the family spell the family name Mechlin.
Andrew Stewart, father of Mrs. Mary R. (Stewart) Mechling, came from England, was a well educated man, and taught music. In Juniata county, Pa., he married Mary Russell, a native of Ireland, who lived along the Juniata river before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Stewart were among the early settlers in Butler county, Pa., where their son William, Mrs. Mechling's father, was born. William Stewart became a farmer in Cherry township, that county. He married Eliza Jane Gibson, and both were members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Stewart was also born in Butler county, of respected pioneer stock of that vicinity, her grandparents being Levi and Jane (Aber- crombie) Gibson, who lived on the "Duchess farm" near Parkers Landing. Mrs. Gibson was of Scotch ancestry and Revolutionary stock. Among their children were Samuel, Hugh, Levi, Esther, Jane and Eliza. Levi, one of the younger sons of Levi and Jane (Abercrombie) Gibson, was a farmer by occu- pation, and lived and died in Butler county, reaching old age. He was the father of Mrs. Eliza Jane (Gibson) Stewart and grandfather of Mrs. Mary R. (Stewart) Mechling.
SAMUEL J. ERVIN, retired undertaker, of Parker City, Armstrong county, was born in Parker township, Butler Co., Pa., Oct. 12, 1835, son of Samuel and Eliza (Bond) Er- vin, and a grandson of Samuel Ervin. .
Samuel Ervin, the grandfather, was one of the first settlers in Butler county, where he took up six hundred acres of government land, with an allowance of six acres on each
one hundred for road purposes. This land lay in what is now Parker township, and there he cleared up and improved the place on which he lived until his sudden death, pos- sibly from an attack of heart disease. His children were: Samuel; John; Rebecca ; Margaret, who married John Schultz; Polly, who married Hazel Ward; and Nancy, who married John Morehead-all deceased.
Samuel Ervin (2), son of Samuel Ervin, was reared on the old homestead in Parker township, 106 acres of which he received from his father as a gift. This tract he cleared and improved, and resided there until later in life, when he sold it and bought another farm, in the same township, con- taining seventy-five acres. There he lived until his death, which occurred when he was sixty-six years old. He was twice married, and by his first wife, Eliza Bond, he had five children, namely: Elizabeth, who mar- ried Alexander Grant; William B .; Samuel J .; John A .; and Mary A., who is deceased. For his second wife Mr. Ervin married Mar- garet Gordon, and they had six children, as follows: George, Alexander, Andrew, Mary A., Nancy J., and Emma, of whom George is deceased.
Samuel J. Ervin remained at home and went to school until he was thirteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to a local cabinetmaker, serving three and a half years at Callensburg, in Clarion county. Afterward he worked as a journeyman at Fairview, in Butler county, for three years, and in the fall of 1861 went to Oil City, where he was in the furniture and undertaking business for nine and a half years, his time being fully occupied, as he was the only undertaker there during that period and attended to as many as five funerals a day. In the spring of 1871 Mr. Ervin came to Parker City, where in March of the same year he embarked in the undertaking business, being the only under- taker and funeral director in the place until 1902, at which time he retired.
In many ways Mr. Ervin has been a lead- ing and representative citizen. Politically he is a Republican, and for three and a half years served as mayor of the city. He is a stockholder and director of the First Na- tional Bank of Parker City.
Mr. Ervin married Oct. 10, 1857, Mary Jane Thompson, daughter of John and Eliza (Badger) Thompson, and granddaughter of John Badger, both families being of pioneer stock of Butler county. Five children were
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born to Mr. and Mrs. Ervin, as follows : won, and he took part at Winchester, Fish- er's Hill, Cedar Creek, and many skirmishes Cordelia B., deceased, who married Elisha Turk; Elmer L., deceased; Kate, who is the and engagements, including the Lynchburg wife of W. W. Miller, of Pittsburgh; Clara raid. C., who is the wife of William F. Orr; and In 1866 Mr. Harrison became interested in the oil industry and became a driller and pumper as a beginner in the business, work- ing until 1875 in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He then secured leases in these: States and began operating on his own ac- count, in which he continued with success. In 1910 he disposed of his interests and re- tired from active business. Emma, who is deceased. Mr. Ervin and wife are members of the First Methodist Episco- pal Church at Parker City, and they have been united with the Methodist denomination almost all their mature lives, his connection having existed since 1848 and hers since 1858. He has held all the offices of the church per- missible to a layman, since 1871 has been a class leader, and for many years has been president of the board of trustees at Parker City.
JAMES MADISON HARRISON, retired oil operator, Parkers Landing, Pa., was born near Brady's Bend, Armstrong county, Nov. 9, 1845, son of William and Ann (Erwin) Harrison.
William Harrison was born in Maryland, near Hagerstown, in 1815, and in early man- hood came to Armstrong county, locating near Brady's Bend. He was a brickmaker by trade, and for a number of years was en- gaged in the manufacture of brick at Brady's Bend, Parker City and Bear Creek, in Arm- strong county, and also at Bruin, in Butler county. In later life he engaged in farming in Perry township, where he died in 1898, being then in his eighty-fourth year. He was a soldier in the Civil war, enlisting in 1861 in Company B, 103d Pa. Vol. Inf., and after nearly two years of service was honor- ably discharged on account of disability.
William Harrison married Ann Erwin, who was born in Butler county, Pa., daugh- ter of John Erwin, who was one of the pion- eers of that county. He settled near the present site of Petrolia, where he cleared and improved land, which he sold later in life and purchased a small farm in Perry town- ship, Armstrong county, on which he spent the remainder of his life. To William and Ann Harrison four sons were born: William H., James M., John E. and Henry H., Wil- liam being deceased.
James Madison Harrison grew up in Arm- strong and Butler counties and attended the district schools. When nineteen years of age, on March 16, 1864, he enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering Company L, 14th Pa. Cav., and in August, 1865, was honorably dis- charged at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. During this time many of the most important bat- tles of the Rebellion were fought, lost and onel in General Harmar's campaign against
On Sept. 1, 1870, Mr. Harrison was mar- ried to Emily Elder, daughter of Robert Elder, of Clarion county, Pa., and six chil- dren have been born to them, namely: Daisy,. wife of Elmer Royle; William O .; Robert L .; Anna, wife of F. B. Digel; Grant, and Harry.
From 1871 until 1894 Mr. Harrison lived in Butler county, and then moved to Parker City, which has since been his home. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and for seven years served as a member of the city council. He belongs to Craig Post, No. 75, G. A. R., and to Parker Lodge, No. 761, Odd Fellows, at. Parker City.
B. J. HANRATTY, Parkers Landing, Armstrong county, Pennsylvania.
COL. CHRISTOPHER TRUBY, ancestor of Mrs. Caroline (Truby) Robinson, widow of Elisha Robinson, came to this section from Bucks county, Pa., where he was born in 1736, and settled on land which is now part of the site of Greensburg, Westmoreland (then Bed- ford) county, about 1771. He was one of the important men of the region in his day, having been commissioner for Westmoreland county in 1774, and justice of the peace June II, that year. On Aug. 18, 1784, he was reelected justice of the peace and judge of the court of Common Pleas of the county. He owned a blockhouse or fort upon his property in Hemp- field township, Westmoreland county, which was a place of refuge for the early settlers. He built the first courthouse at Greensburg. During the Revolutionary war he was ex- tremely active in the Colonial cause. In Feb- ruary, 1778, he was a captain of the West- moreland county militia, his son Michael ( who was an early settler of Kittanning, Arm- strong county) acting as drummer whenever the company was called into service. In 1790 Christopher Truby served as lieutenant col-
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the Indians, he and Maj. James Paull com- which long ago became settled in Westmore- manding the battalion of Pennsylvania militia. land county, Pennsylvania. A letter from the war department, Washing- ton, D. C., to Miss Elizabeth R. Robinson, Nov. II, 1903, shows the following: "Christo- pher Truby served as a member of Colonel Barr's Detachment of Pennsylvania Militia, Revolutionary war (rank not stated), which was ordered out on an expedition to the In- dian country by Brigadier General Hand, com- died Feb. 20, 1802, and was buried in the German cemetery at Greensburg. His name
John McCracken, his great-grandfather, was born in Scotland. He lived in Ireland for some time before his emigration to Amer- ica, in about 1802. He and his family were thirteen weeks making the voyage, and after landing in New York City did not remain there long, proceeding to western Pennsyl- vania. They settled near the Congruity Pres- manded by Col. Alexander Barr. His name byterian Church, in Westmoreland county, appears on a general pay abstract of the de- where Mr. McCracken had a farm, and there tachment. This abstract, dated March 9, 1778, he passed the remainder of his life, dying shows the soldiers in service from Feb. 10, April 6, 1826. His wife, Catherine, sur- 1778, to March 8, 1778." Christopher Truby vived him several years. They were the par- ents of twelve children, two sons and ten daughters, some born in Scotland, some in appears with those of William Findley, John Ireland and the younger members of the fam- Kirkpatrick, Frederick Rohrer, Dr. Simeon Hovey, James Hill, and others, as supporters of the government and George Washington, in a petition dated 1794 (inhabitants of West- moreland county ). ily in America. Several of the older children never left the old world. Those that came across the ocean with the parents were Mary, Elizabeth and John; Margaret was born here, as also James, the grandfather of Paul A. McCracken.
Colonel Truby married Isabella Bowman and had seven children, the four sons being Michael, Christopher, Jr. (born 1761, died 1845, buried near Millers Eddy, in Perry town- ship, Armstrong county), Jacob and John.
Michael Truby, son of Christopher, is named on the list of pioneers for Revolu- tionary and military services in Armstrong county, granted pensions as soldiers of the Revolution by Act of the Pennsylvania Legis- lature March 20, 1838.
Samuel Truby, son of Michael Truby, was born in 1808, and died aged eighty-four years. He married Anna Sterling, and they were the parents of the following: Jerome died aged nine years; Caroline became the wife of Elisha Robinson ; Amanda married Dr. C. M. Matson, of Brookville, Pa., she being his second wife (all the children of his first union are deceased the second union there was one son, Dr. W. W. Matson, a physician of Brookville) ; Mary married Capt. Frank Clark; Sarah never mar- ried; Samuel C. was a jeweler of Brookville. All are deceased except Mrs. Elisha Robin- son.
PAUL A. McCRACKEN, proprietor of the Leechburg Lumber Company, has dem- onstrated his business ability in the manage- ment of that concern, with which he has been identified throughout his business career. He was born Dec. 8, 1873, at Leechburg, son of James F. McCracken, and comes of a family
James McCracken, son of John and Cath- erine McCracken, was born March 10, 1809, in Westmoreland county, where he lived for some time, later settling at Leechburg, Arm- strong county, where he passed the remainder of his life. He died in March, 1874, at Leechburg, and is buried in the Evergreen cemetery there. He was a carpenter by call- ing, and in the pursuit of his trade built many barns in Westmoreland county. He also fol- lowed farming. Mr. McCracken married Anna Mears, daughter of James and Mary (Steele) Mears, and to them were born the following children: John, who died young ; James, who died young ; Rev. John C., a Pres- byterian minister, now residing at Vander- grift, Pa. (he was educated at Washington and Jefferson College and at the Western ated in 1878, and is still in the active minis- try) ; James F .; Samuel; and Catherine, wife of William Welsh, a business man of Vander- grift, Pennsylvania.
James F. McCracken, son of James and Anna (Mears) McCracken, was born Aug. 6, 1848, at Leechburg, where he passed all his life, dying May 10, 1895, when still in his prime. For several years he followed the carpenter's trade, and then engaged in the lumber business, which he followed the rest of his life. He was a large man physically. Mr. McCracken was a Republican in politics but not active in his party, but he took a deep interest in the Presbyterian Church, of which
except Dr. Eugene Matson, of Pittsburgh; by Theological Seminary, where he was gradu-
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he was a zealous member, serving as treasurer perous farmer, and energetic in business mat- and trustee. Mr. McCracken married Emma Frances Garver, who was born Sept. 10, 1851, and survives him, making her home at Leech- burg. They had two children, Paul A. and Mary H., the latter unmarried.
Paul A. McCracken received his early edu- cation in public school at Leechburg, later attending high school at Pittsburgh and Duff's commercial college in that city, from which latter institution he was graduated in 1891. He then became bookkeeper for the Leech- burg Lumber Company, of which his father was a one-third owner, and after the death of his father he assumed his interest in the yard. In 1897 he bought out the other members of the firm, and is now the sole owner of the company, which has pros- pered greatly under his management. He does all kinds of mill work, and has established a trade which places him among the most substantial business men of the borough. He is also a director of the Farmers' National Bank at Leechburg.
Mr. McCracken is well known in local Ma- sonic circles, belonging to Leechburg Lodge, No. 577, F. & A. M., of which he is a past master ; to Orient Chapter, R. A. M., at Kit- tanning ; to Tancred Commandery, No. 48, of Pittsburgh, and to Pittsburgh Consistory, thir- ty-second degree, and Syria Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Pittsburgh. In politics he is a Republican and active in the local work of the party, having served as judge of elections, and he has served his borough as councilman. He is also interested in church work as a member of the Presbyterian Church, which he has served officially as trustee and treasurer.
On May 10, 1898, Mr. McCracken married Mary E. Morgan, daughter of John and Sar- ah (Jones) Morgan, and they have one son, James W., who is now in school.
William Garver, Mr. McCracken's maternal grandfather, married Isabella Wooderson, and they had the following children: Min- erva, Elizabeth, Harriet, Oscar, Emma Fran- ces (Mrs. McCracken), Mary and Willa.
HEILMAN. A number of the Heilmans of Armstrong county are descended from Fred- erick Heilman, who moved into this region from Dauphin county, Pa., and who was one of the sons of Peter and Elizabeth (Harter) Heilman, who settled in Kittanning township in 1795-96.
ters, operating a brick yard on his farm, and meeting with substantial success in his ven- tures. In 1871 he was elected county com- missioner, being a member of the board which erected the Armstrong county jail, which has the reputation of being one of the finest and strongest structures of the kind in the United States. This building was completed in 1873; at a cost of $252,000. Its foundation is 24 feet deep, from the surface, and 7 feet wide from the bottom. After his service as com- missioner Mr. Heilman devoted all his time to his own affairs. He had previously been school director, and during the Civil war he served as enrolling officer. He was a Repub- lican on political questions. He was an es- teemed member and liberal supporter of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, which he served officially. By his first wife, Susanna Helfrich, daughter of Anthony Helfrich (whose wife was named Schutt or Shutt), he had three children, namely: Amanda, who never mar- ried ; Albert, who starved to death in Ander- sonville prison, while a Union soldier ; and one that died in infancy. His second, Elizabeth (Remaley), daughter of Anthony Remaley, of Kiskiminetas township, was the mother of ten children, viz .: James M., William M., Reuben (a hardware merchant), John F., George (who died aged twenty-one years), Frank (who died when eighteen years old), Eliza (wife of Frank McClister), Edward (in the hardware business), Charles C. (president of the Merchants' Trust Company Bank, of Greensburg-he spells the name Hileman) and Curtin A. (engaged as a furniture dealer at Greensburg).
Anthony Remaley, grandfather of Mrs. Peter Heilman, married a daughter of An- thony Schaeffer, who was a Revolutionary soldier, and afterward clerk in the State Senate. Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Remaley had a son Anthony whose daughter married Peter Heilman. The Heilmans worshipped at the old Heller Church, near Harrisburg, Pennsyl- vania.
WILLIAM M. HEILMAN was born April 7, 1850, at Kittanning, and was educated in the public schools of his neighborhood. When twenty-one years old he began business as a contractor and builder, in partnership with his brother J. M. Heilman, this association continuing until 1878, when another brother, John F., came into the business, the firm name with their large contracting business the broth- ers erected a planing mill, equipping it with
Peter Heilman, eldest son of Frederick, becoming Heilman Brothers. In connection was born in July, 1819, on the home farm, where he died Feb. 25, 1878. He was a pros-
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modern machinery and appliances, driven by man. Like his brother and sisters, Mr. a fifty-horsepower engine. An extensive busi- Heilman first attended school at Kittanning, passing through the grammar and high school grades. He then took up the study of med- icine, entering the University of Pennsyl- vania, at Philadelphia, and being graduated from that institution in 1902. For a short time he practiced medicine at Kittanning, and then went to Europe to finish his medical training, taking a course of studies at the University of Berlin, Germany, and in France, Italy, Russia and England, spending five years abroad in all. Returning to Kittanning in 1908, he resumed his practice. Dr. Heil- man is one of the most skilled physicians and surgeons of Armstrong county, and his prac- tice is very large.
ness was carried on, the firm contracting for and building houses in Armstrong, Westmore- land, Allegheny, Butler and Venango counties. In 1909 the firm was incorporated as Heilman Brothers & Co. Lumber Company, with Wil- liam M. Heilman as treasurer. In 1905 Mr. Heilman was elected vice president of the Kittanning Plate Glass Company, and in May, 19II, was elected president and general man- ager of that concern, which offices he held at the time of his death. Employment is given to five hundred persons. The plant is well equipped and modern in every detail. Under the efficient and active supervision of Mr. Heilman the company's affairs were brought into excellent condition. In addition to these interests, Mr. Heilman was a stockholder and director in the Fort Pitt Powder Company. For a number of years he was a councilman of Kittanning, and he was one of the first men to advocate the paving and sewering of the borough, and through his persistence the im- provements were made.
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