Abraham Sechler and Mary A. Leach

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Husband Abraham Sechler ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Mar 1830 - Butler Co, PA 2
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         Father: Abraham Sechler (1793/1798-1872) 2 3 4
         Mother: Nancy "Nannie" Boyer (1803-1832) 2 4

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       Marriage: 7 Mar 1888 - New Wilmington, Lawrence Co, PA 5

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   Other Spouse: Caroline Houk (1832-1886) 1 2 - 1853 2

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Abraham Sechler.

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Wife Mary A. Leach ⁵

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           Born: 27 Jul 1840 - Washington Co, PA 5
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         Father: John W. Leach (1817-1870) 5
         Mother: Elizabeth J. Moore (1809-1845) 5

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Abraham Sechler

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The Sechler family is of German extraction and no other language than the German was used in the family through Mr. Sechler's youth, he being eighteen years of age before he spoke English.

He resided in Butler County, Pennsylvania, attending the neighborhood school a part of the time and looking after the cultivation of a farm of forty acres, up to the age of eighteen years, when he left home and went to Allegheny, where he learned the cabinet-making trade. He remained in that city for two years and then returned to Butler County and for the next two years worked around Harmony and also in Lawrence County as a carpenter. He then bought five acres of land near Rose Point, Lawrence County, which he rented out and kept for three years. In the meanwhile, being unmarried, he lived with a family named Kennedy, but after he married he immediately moved to Princeton. He continued to follow the carpenter trade and erected a number of buildings in the neighborhood. Beginning in 1887, Mr. Sechler conducted a marble business at Princeton and his sons were more or less interested in this business as well.
He was one of the most active men in the public affairs of his community after settling at Princeton. He held at one time or another almost all of the township offices, including clerk, school director, auditor, judge of elections, inspector, constable and tax collector.
During the Civil War he enlisted on February 21, 1865, at New Brighton, in Company I, Sixteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, with the rank of corporal. On account of the termination of the war his company was never called into action and he was honorably discharged at Lynchburg, Virginia, July 22, 1865. He was a member of Princeton Post, No. 420, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he was past quartermaster and chaplain.
He and his wife were members of the Hermon Presbyterian Church, in which he was an official for many years, serving as trustee, member of the sessions, treasurer and elder, having united with this church in 1854.

1 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 308.

2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 389.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1026.

4 Gertrude Mohlin Ziegler, The Ziegler Family and Related Families in Pennsylvania (Zelienople, PA: Charles Campbell Printing Co., 1970), Pg 101.

5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 390.