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Levi O., and Sarah J., deceased wife of Harrison Black. He died on May 28, 1879, and his wife, in April, 1892.
JOSEPH L. PURVIS, eldest son of Samuel G. and Elizabeth Purvis, was born in Butler, October 1, 1838. He obtained a public school education, learned the carpenter's trade with his father, and entered into partnership with the latter in 1867. In that year the firm established a planing mill and two years later added the lumber business, both of which they have since conducted. Mr. Purvis is one of the original members of the Home Natural Gas Company, is president of the Butler Savings Bank, and superintendent of the Butler County Agricultural So- ciety. He is one of the leading and useful members of the United Presbyterian church, of Butler, was one of its trustees for a number of years, and chairman of the building committee in the erection of the new church building. In politics, he is a Democrat, has been a member of the borough council, and has served on the school board for fourteen years. In 1869 Mr. Purvis married Mary Ellen Bailey. a daughter of E. H. Bailey, of Parker, and their children are as follows : Mary M. ; Samuel H. ; William B. : Wilson L., and Joseph D.
LEVI O. PURVIS, third son of Samuel G. and Elizabeth Purvis, was born in Butler, May 12. 1846, and was educated in the public schools and at Witherspoon Institute. He learned the carpenter's trade, and in 1876 he became a member of the firm of S. G. Purvis & Company, with which he has since been connected. Ile was married to Zoe, daughter of Capt. Francis Dempsey, of Erie, Pennsyl- vania, of which union have been born to them five children : Harold, Clara. Florence, May and Bessie. The family are adherents of the Presbyterian church. In politics, Mr. Purvis is a Democrat, and has been a member of the school board for five years. He is connected with Butler Lodge, F. & A. M., also with the A. O. U. W.
SAMUEL D. PURVIS, son of Samuel G. and Elizabeth Purvis, was born in the borough of Butler, January 20, 1842, received a common school education, and learned the carpenter's trade with his father. He afterwards worked at his trade in Pittsburg and Franklin, but returned to Butler in 1865, and has since been foreman in the sash and door factory of S. G. Purvis & Company. On Feb- ruary 20, 1866, he married Valeria Evans, a daughter of Abijah Evans, of Centre township,-one of the California Argonauts of '49,-who is the mother of the following children : Annie E .; Ella: Perry E., deceased ; Frank ; Alfred B. ; Samuel G., and Gracey Ferguson. Mr. Purvis is an elder in the United Presby- terian church, and is a leading member of that denomination. In politics, he is a Democrat, and at present is a member of the school board. He is a director in the Building and Loan Association, and has always been active in educational and religious work.
JACOB MECHLING, SR., was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, December 8, 1770, and was a son of Jacob and Catherine Mechling, natives of Germany, who settled in Northampton county, whence they removed to West- moreland county, where they died. November 1. 1827. and August 18, 1832. respectively, each having reached the ripe old age of eighty-four years. Their son Jacob enlisted in the United States army, and in 1792 was sent with his company to Chamber's Station, Westmoreland county, to guard the settlers
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against the Indians. In 1796. after the Indian troubles had subsided, he came to Butler county and purchased a tract, of land in what is now Washington town- ship, whence he removed to the borough of Butler and engaged in the hotel busi- ness. Heiwas also one of the pioneer merchants of the town. In 1803 he was elected county commissioner, and in 1804 a member of the legislature, and served continuously by re-elections up to 1505. In 1809 he was appointed prothonotary, in which office he served nine years. lle was also a justice of the peace in 1804. He served several terms in the council, and was chief burgess of the borough for three years. He took an active interest in public affairs, and was widely known among the pioneers. A Democrat in polities, he voted for Washington in 1792, and for every Democratic president from Jefferson to Buchanan. In religious belief he was a Lutheran, and died in that faith, January 10, 1861. Mr. Mechling married Mary Magdalene Drum, December 30, 1794, and their children were as follows: Jacob, born October 20, 1795: Susanna, July S, 1797, married John McCleary, and subsequently a Mr. Cole ; George, June 3, 1799; Simon, Septem- ber 16, 1801 ; Philip. August 20, 1803; Catherine B., March 3, 1806. deceased wife of Judge Joseph Buffington ; Christian, January 24; 1805 ; Benjamin, March 2%. 1810; Henry, March 22, 1812; Samuel, June 21, 1814, and Thomas, August 30. 1816, the last being the only survivor of the family.
JACOB MECHLING, JR., eldest son of Jacob and Mary Magdalene Mechling, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, October 20. 1795, and died in Butler September 11, 1873. He succeeded to the hotel business of his father, and, like the latter, wasone of the leading men of his day. He carried on the hotel up to 1865, when he retired from active business. Politically, he was a Whig and afterwards a Republican, and served as associate judge, prothonotary, and treasurer of Butler county, and was also chief burgess of Butler in IS19. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, and served as lieutenant of a company from Butler, which was stationed at Black Rock, on the Niagara river. In early life he was connected with the Lutheran church, but in later years united with the Protestant Episcopal church of Butler, and was a leading member of that body, and for many years a vestryman and senior warden. Mr. Mechling married Jane, a daughter of John Thompson, and sister of the late chief justice, James Thomp- son. She died in May. 1872, the mother of the following children : Mary J., deceased wife of L. L. Lord : Susan D., wife of Col. Archibald Blakeley of Pitts- burg : William T., who graduated from West Point, was a colonel in the regular army, and now resides in Texas; Jacob J .. of California ; Simon S .. deceased, and Joseph B., of Butler township.
SIMON MECHLING. son of Jacob and Jane ( Thompson ) Mechling, was born September 16. 1834, in Butler, Pennsylvania, and received a common school edu- cation in the schools of that borough. He was employed for many years in the various offices in the court house, and died September 30, 1866. He married Elizabeth Ziegler, and by this union they were the parents of three chiklren : William T. ; Josephine, wife of J. O. Jackson of Franklin, and George S., of Butler. Mrs. Mechling is a resident of the borough. Politically he was a Republican, and was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church.
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COL. WILLIAM T. MECHLING, eldest son of Simon and Elizabeth (Ziegler ) Mechling, was born in Butler, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1856. 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 now occupies 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 coun- cil 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 has shown his public enterprise. He is one of the leading Democrats of Butler county, and takes a deep interest in the success of his party. He joined Company 1, 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, which position he now holds. Ile 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. Colonel Mechling was married April 10, 1878, to Mary E., daughter of Hon. J. T. Me Junkin, and they are the parents of five children : Mary E., Martha Helen, Clara Magaw, Georgia R. and Margaret L. He is a member of Connoquenessing Lodge, Number 275. 1. O. O. F., also of Butler Lodge, Number 170, B. P. O. E. Both he and his wife are members of the Protestant Episcopal church of Butler.
ROBERT GRAHAM. SR., was a native of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. Ili- father immigrated from Scotland in the last century and settled close to Har- risburg, Pennsylvania, where Robert was born. After arriving at manhood Rob- ert removed to Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and about 1797 came to Butler county and purchased a tract of one hundred acres, which he afterwards sold to the commissioners who laid out a part of the town of Butler thereon. This land was conveyed to the Governor of the State under the act of 1803. in connection with the Cunningham tract of 200 acres. He then removed outside the borough limits and purchased 400 acres, upon which he built a log cabin, now the site of John Berg's residence. lIere he resided until his death, in 1849. He married in 1800, Sarah Brown, a sister of Robert Brown, one of the early justices of Middlesex township. His family consisted of the following children : William; Robert : James ; John ; Samuel ; Williamson ; Ebenezer; Rachel, who married Festus Young : Mary, who married Daniel Heiner: Sarah, who became the wife of Walker Reed; Lydia, who married John Crawford. Politically, Mr. Graham
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was a life-long Whig. In 1832 he was elected a commissioner of Butler county. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church forty years.
JOHN GRAHAM, fourth son of Robert and Sarah Graham, was born in 1809, on the old homestead just outside the borough limits of Butler. He was reared a farmer, and was educated in the common schools. In connection with the farm his father was engaged in the manufacture of brick, and after John grew to manhood he took charge of that business and continued in it until retir- ing from active life. Hle located on Main street, Butler, in 1831, on what is now known as the Graham property, where he resided for nearly half a cen- tury. He always took an active interest in the prosperity of Butler, and though he never held any public office, was identified with the Whig and Republican parties. He was a life-long member of the Presbyterian church. When the North Western railroad was built, he was one of the original stockholders, and took an active interest in its success. Mr. Graham married Sarah, a daughter of Charles Gilkey, a pioneer of what is now Lawrence county. Their children are as follows : Walter L; Lydia, deceased wife of William Porterfield ; Samuel ; Robert, an attorney of Meadville : Louisa, wife of Joel Stoddard. of Butler, and three who died in infancy. At his death, in 1893, Mr. Graham was one of the oldest residents of Butler.
WALTER L. GRAHAM, attorney at law, son of John and Sarah Graham, was born in the borough of Butler, October 25. 1831. He attended the com- mon schools of the town, also Witherspoon Institute, and graduated from Jeffer- son College in 1854. Ile commenced reading law with Samuel A. Purviance, completed his studies with Charles C. Sullivan, and was admitted to the bar in 1855, since which time he has continued to practice here and at Pittsburg. In pol- itics, he is a Republican, and was a delegate to the National Convention, in 1560, which nominated Lincoln for the presidency. He has been president of the bor- ough council, and has always taken a deep interest in local affairs. Mr. Graham enlisted in Company G, Fourteenth Pennsylvania Militia, in 1862, that went out to assist in repelling Lee's invasion. He subsequently filled the office of notary public, by appointment of Governor Curtin, for three years. He was married in 1854, to Catherine, daughter of Emanuel Keller, of Cumberland county; she died July 4, 1861, leaving three children : Frank, deceased ; Walter HI., and Annie V., deceased. His second marriage occurred in 1867, to Margaret 1., daughter of John Michael Zimmerman, by which union two children have been born to them : John C., and Margaret. Mr. Graham is a member of the Presbyterian church, and for twenty years he has been a trustee in the Butler organization.
LEWIS WALKER was one of the early settlers of Butler county, where many of his descendants still reside. He was a native of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and came to what is now Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. with the Plumer family, prior to the Revolution. AAbout the time of his majority he located on a tract of 800 aeres of land in what is now Cranberry township, Butler county. where he lived until his removal to Butler. He erected several houses on North Main street, was recognized as an enterprising man, and died in 1815. Mr. Walker married a Miss Parks, and their children were as follows: John, who died in Cranberry township ; Parks, who died in Wheeling, West Virginia ; David, who
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was quartermaster of the Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and died at Mercersburg, Kentucky; Samuel, who died in Cincinnati, Ohio ; Simpson, who died in Washington, D. C .; Nathaniel, who died in Butler ; Mary, deceased wife of James Borland, and Keziah, deceased wife of James Frazier.
NATHANIEL WALKER, son of Lewis Walker, was born on the homestead in Cranberry township, Butler county, Pennsylvania, and there grew to manhood. In 1846 he removed to Sharon, Mercer county, and the following year came to Butler, where he engaged in the manufacture of brick, purchasing his brother David's yard, which business he continued many years. He was elected treas- urer of Butler county in 1862, and also filled the office of justice of the peace for a long period. Mr. Walker was one of the early Abolitionist- of the county, and maintained a station on the Underground Railroad for runaway slaves. He was a leading member of the Presbyterian church and active in all good works. He was twice married. His first wife was Grizella, a daughter of John and Jane (Pollock ) Crowe, who bore him two children : Samuel and John, of Butler. His second wife was Sarah M. Slater, and their children were : Leonidas, a lawyer of Denver, Colorado; Caroline, wife of W. D. Johnson, of Ohio; Clarence. and Leverett II., first lieutenant in the Fourth United States Artillery. In politics. Mr. Walker was first a Whig and afterwards a Republican.
CAPT. SAMUEL WALKER, Son of Nathaniel and Grizella ( Crowe) Walker, was born January 19, 1:35. He was reared on his father's homestead in Cian- berry township until his twelfth year. He subsequently attended school at Witherspoon Institute. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Company H. Thirteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was discharged August 6. 1861. On the 22nd of August. 1862, he joined Company F. One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served with them until March 12. 1864. Captain Walker was commissioned second lieutenant in the Reserve Corps February 20, 1864. and captain March 13, 1865. and was honorably discharged from the service August 27, 1868. Ile was one of the last twelve soldiers, including General Howard, di-charged from the volunteer service. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the regular army September 16, IS68, and was retired from the service December 31, 1870. During the Rebellion Captain Walker participated in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, losing his right leg at the last named battle, May 3, 1863. While in the United States army he was located at Memphis, Nashville. Chattanooga and Knoxville, being connected with the Freedmen's Bureau as agent. under General Howard. After retiring from the service he returned to Butler, and was teller in the First National Bank until 1×78. In 1890 he was elected tax collector for the borough, which position he has since occupied. Captain Walker married Caroline Zimmerman, a daughter of John Michael Zimmerman, a well remembered citizen of Butler. Two children are the fruits of this union : Samuel and Catherine McC. Ile is a Republican in politics, a member of Butler Encampment, Number 45, U. V. L., also of the K. of H. and A. O. U. W. Captain Walker is one of the highly respected citizens of Butler, and enjoys the confidence of the community in which he has so long resided.
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CLARENCE WALKER, attorney at law, was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. March 24, 1848, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Slater) Walker. Ile received his primary education in the public schools, afterwards attended Witherspoon Insti- tute, read law with Judge Mc Junkin, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. Ile has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Walker was married in 1877, to Elizabeth M., daughter of Hon. E. McJunkin, and their children are as follows : Wayne McJ. ; Victor B. ; Helen ; Lucile ; Clarence L., and Elizabeth. lle is one of the managers of the Producers Oil Company, and is interested in oil production. Politically, he is a Republican, and is a member of the R. A., and the A. O. U. W.
JOHN WALKER, son of Nathaniel and Grizella (Crowe) Walker, and grand- son of Lewis Walker, was born at Tarentum, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1836. Ilis youth was spent upon the old homestead in Cranberry township, and he Was educated in the public schools and at Witherspoon Institute. At the age of six- teen he was apprenticed to learn the tinner's trade in Pittsburg, at which he served four years. At the expiration of this time he continued working at his trade for three years. In 1862 he enlisted in Company G. One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served nine months as first ser- geant of his company. He participated in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam and Chancellorsville. After his discharge he was appointed to a position in the provost marshal's office in Pittsburg, which he resigned to fill the unexpired term of his father as treasurer of Butler county. At the expiration of his term as treasurer he went to Oil City, and was engaged in buying oil for the refineries, which business he followed until 1865. He was then appointed to a clerkship in the Freedmen's Bureau, and was stationed at Knoxville, Tennessee, under his brother, Captain Walker. In 1865 he returned to Pittsburg, where he engaged in the tinning business until 1873, when he was appointed cashier of the German National Bank, of Millerstown, which position be filled acceptably for twelve years, when the bank wound up its business because of the oil supply giving out in that locality. He then received an appointment as teller in the First National Bank, of Oil City, where he remained six years, and then resigned on account of poor health. In 1891 he returned to Butler to accept his present position as book-keeper for Thomas W. Phillips. Mr. Walker was married October 9, 1878, to Sarah C. Bosler, of Philadelphia, and both he and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. Politically, he is an ardent Republican. and is connected with the K. of II.
DAVID WALKER, son of Lewis Walker, was born in Cranberry township, Butler county, in 1803, and grew to manhood upon the homestead farm. He subsequently went to Pittsburg and engaged in the manufacture of brick, and then returned to Butler where he established a brick yard, which he carried on extensively for several years and then sold out to his brother Nathaniel in 1847. He afterwards engaged in buying horses and cattle, which he drove to the New York markets, and continued in this business until 1854, when he obtained a con- tract on the North Western railroad for making a cut three miles below Butler. In 1861 he enlisted in Company II, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and in February, 1862, died from disease contracted through exposure in the service.
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Politically, he was a Whig and afterwards a Republican, and served as justice of the peace of Butler township for ten years. He was one of the early members of the Presbyterian church of Butler, and contributed liberally of his means towards that institution. He married Jane, daughter of John Gilliland, and the follow- ing children were born to this union : Elizabeth, who married Rev. D. Hall ; Lewis P. : Mary E., wife of William Slack; Kesiah, wife of F. W. Rhoades ; Ilugh B. ; Sarah B., wife of O. D. Lewis, and Martha J., wife of J. W. Yea- man. Mrs. Walker died in 1848, in the faith of the Presbyterian church.
LEWIS P. WALKER, notary public, was born in the borough of Butler, March 10. 1833, son of David and Jane (Gilliland) Walker, and grandson of Lewis Walker. He received a good common school education, and was after- wards connected with his father's business until 1856, when he engaged in haul- ing goods between Butler and Pittsburg, which he followed some eight years, or until the construction of the railroad, when he engaged in the oil business at Petroleum Center, Venango county. From 1864 to 1574 he followed the oil business at that point, and then returned to Butler, where he continued the oil and lumber business up to 1880. Mr. Walker has filled the office of justice of the peace in Butler for eleven years, and was subsequently appointed a notary public. He was married in November, 1856, to Mary D., daughter of William Bell, of Warren, Pennsylvania, to which union six children have been born : Emma J. : William S. ; Harry L. ; Flora B., wife of T. H. Davis; Frank II., and Mary L. Mr. Walker is one of the charter members of Butler Lodge. Number 94, A. O. U. W., and is a member of the Presbyterian church.
JAMES Mc JUNKIN was one of the early settlers of Butler county. Three brothers, James, John and William Me Junkin, immigrated from the North of Ireland to Pennsylvania about 1796. James and William settled near what is now known as Muddy Creek church, in Butler county, in 1799. The former was born in 1777. and died in 1833. Ile married for his first wife Asenath Turk. She was born in Ireland in 1788, and her family were among the first settlers of Parker township, Butler county. She was the mother of two sons, David and William. Mr. Mc Junkin was married to Nancy Turner, in IsIS, who became the mother of eight children : Mary; James T .; Hannah : Samuel; John R. ; Sarah J .; Martha, and Susan.
JAMES T. Me JUNKIN, eldest son of James and Nancy McJunkin, was born in 1820 upon the old homestead. Ile received a common school education and in early life taught school for several years. In 1848 he was elected to the office of register and recorder, and re-elected in 1851. He engaged in the insurance busi- ness in 1860, and from that date up to 1873 followed that busines in connection with a foundry and marble shop. In 1867 he was elected to the legislature, and served in the sessions of 1868-69. He continued in the insurance business to the time of his death, March 16, 1885. He married Martha, daughter of John Rose. a native of New Jersey, but a resident of Butler, and his family consisted of seven children, as follows: John P., who died February 6, 1866; Agnes D., widow of George A. Black ; Mary E., wife of W. T. Mechling : James C. ; Loyal S. ; Ira, and Minnie, deceased. Politically, he was a Whig and afterwards a Repub- lican, and a leading spirit in public affairs. In 1862 he enlisted in Company G.
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Fourteenth Pennsylvania Militia, which went out to assist in repelling Lee's invasion of the State. He was a member of Connoquenessing Lodge, Number 278, I. O. O. F., and Butler Lodge, Number 272, F. & A. M. In religious belief, he was a Presbyterian.
LOYAL S. McJUNKIN, son of James T. MeJunkin, was born in Butler, May 22, 1856. He attended the public schools of his native town, and at his father's death he succeeded to the insurance business, and represents many of the leading companies of England and America. He is a Republican, and was a delegate to the State convention in ISSO. He is a member of the Masonic order. and is con- nected with the Presbyterian church. From 1575 to Ist he was a member of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.
IRA McJUNKIN, attorney at law, was born in Butler, Pennsylvania. Feb- ruary 13. 1860, son of James T. and Martha Me Junkin. He received a common school education, and subsequently attended Witherspoon Institute, and at the age of seventeen he was appointed. by Col. John M. Thompson, to the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland, from which he graduated in 1\\1. He then spent two years on the Asiatic Station in the United States sery- ice, and after his return stood a final examination, and by an act of Congress received an honorable discharge in ISSB. In the fall of that year he commenced the study of law with Judge Me Junkin, and was admitted to the bar April 10, 1586, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1-92 he was elected district attorney of Butler county, which position he is now filling. He has also held the office of school director for three years. He is a Republican in politics, and takes an active interest in the success of the measures and principles of his party. Mr. MeJunkin is a member of the Masonic order, also of the 1. O. O. F., and is captain of Company E, Fifteenth Regiment National Guard. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, and both as a lawyer and citizen stands well in the community.
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