John Mensch and Susan C. Steiner

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Husband John Mensch ¹

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           Born: 2 Mar 1828 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: Alexander Mensch (Abt 1798-1874) 1
         Mother: Susannah Rosensteel (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 22 Mar 1853 1

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Wife Susan C. Steiner ¹

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         Father: Joseph Steiner (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Susanna Miller (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Clara Jane Mensch ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: William F. Weaver (1845-      ) 1 3

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2 F Ellen Maria Mensch ¹

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            AKA: Ella Mench 4
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         Spouse: Peter P. Baughman (      -Bef 1906) 1 5 6

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3 M James A. Mensch ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John Mensch

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He received his education in the public schools of his native township. His first employment was clerking in his father's store, which he quit at eighteen years to engage in teaching. For eighteen consecutive years he taught in the common schools of Pennsylvania, commencing in 1846 and retiring in 1864. From 1865 to 1887 he was engaged in the general mercantile business at Ludwick. In 1887 he sold his mercantile establishment and with his son embarked in a real estate and insurance business. The firm name was J. Mensch & Son.
In politics he was a republican-prohibitionist and served as justice of the peace and in all the other minor offices of the borough of Ludwick, including being a member and secretary of the school board of Ludwick district. While serving as justice of the peace he was quite popular on account of discountenancing litigation instead of encouraging it to secure fees. Mr. Mensch was a member of the First Baptist church of Greensburg, of which he was the founder.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 135.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 374.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 551.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 104.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 104, 510.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1035.