Churchill Brown Mehard and Mary Kline

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Husband Churchill Brown Mehard ¹

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           Born:  - Mercer, Mercer Co, PA
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         Father: Judge Samuel Smiley Mehard (1849-1919) 1 2
         Mother: Ida Augusta Brown (      -1883) 1

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       Marriage: 21 Jun 1905 3

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Wife Mary Kline ³

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         Father: Maj. Theodore D. Kline (      -1904) 3
         Mother: Ida Eugenia Hoist (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Ida Brown Mehard ³

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         Spouse: William J. Griffith, Jr. (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 26 Jan 1925 3

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General Notes: Husband - Churchill Brown Mehard

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He was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania. After attending the public schools he entered Westminster College at New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from the Military College with a degree in civil engineering in the class of 1902. He afterwards entered the Pittsburgh Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1905. At the same time he continued his studies under his father's preceptorship, and upon his admission to the bar of Allegheny County the same year he engaged in active practice, specializing in corporation and business law. His father admitted him to partnership in 1906, and the style of the firm was S. S. and C. B. Mehard; and it continued unchanged until January 1, 1910, when Churchill B. Mehard was appointed assistant district attorney under William A. Blakely. He served until July, 1912. In April, 1912, Churchill B. Mehard and his father formed a partnership with Cornelius D. Scully, as Mehard, Scully & Mehard. This firm enjoyed a large corporation and general law practice until Judge Mehard died in 1919, and the partnership was dissolved. Besides his legal work, Mr. Mehard had large business and industrial connections, principally in oil production.
As early as 1903, General Mehard became interested in military affairs, and obtained part of his education in what is regarded as one of the finest military schools in the land. He enlisted on January 12, 1903, in the 18th Infantry, National Guard of Pennsylvania, and was commissioned first lieutenant; he became battalion adjutant on March 7, 1903; and was promoted captain on March 4, 1904, and made regimental adjutant at the same time. He was made major, adjutant general's department on June 19, 1912, and assigned to duty as brigade adjutant, 2d Brigade. He served in this office until 1916, when he was one of the first four officers commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps, United States Army, under the National Defense Act of that year. He was a member of the executive committee of the Military Training Camp Association; and when this country entered the World War, Mr. Mehard was ordered to duty at the first officers' training camp, as instructor at Fort McPherson, Georgia. He was assigned on August 15, 1917, to the 321st Field Artillery as major, and in the October following he was ordered to the School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Major Mehard completed this course on January 1, 1918, and was retained as instructor at the school. He became senior instructor, but on May 1, 1918, he was ordered to join his regiment with which he embarked for France. He was in the battle line with his troops for one hundred and fifty-six days. This period included the second battle of the Marne; several fronts of the St. Mihiel offensive, and throughout the entire Meuse-Argonne operation. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel on the field in October, 1918, and thereafter was at the head of his regiment until it received orders to embark for the United States. Colonel Mehard was gassed severely at L'Esperance, October 6, 1918; was cited twice for gallantry in action, and three times was recommended for a full colonelcy. He returned to the United States on April 8, 1919, and in the following October was appointed colonel of the Field Artillery in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. He was assigned to the command of the 107th Field Artillery. On July 24, 1923, he was appointed and commissioned a brigadier general in the Army of the United States and assigned to the command of the 53d Field Artillery of the 28th Division.
General Mehard was a member of the Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Allegheny Country, Edgeworth and Young Men's Republican clubs, also of the Racquet Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Army and Navy Club, of Washington, D. C. His membership in the Beta Zeta Epsilon Fraternity went back to his college years.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Kline

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from Savannah, GA

1 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 686.

2 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 43.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 44.