Fred Ansley Service and Anna L. Vaughn

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Husband Fred Ansley Service ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Oct 1876 - Sharon, Mercer Co, PA 1 3
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         Father: John Service (      -Bef 1888) 1 3 4
         Mother: Ella Williams (Abt 1858-1901) 1 3

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       Marriage: Mar 1907 1

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Wife Anna L. Vaughn ^{1 3}

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Children

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1 F Ellen Mary Service ¹

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            AKA: Mary Ella Service 3
           Born: 7 May 1908 1
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         Spouse: Edwin A. Reed (      -      ) 5

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2 F Annette Service ⁵

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3 F Julia Service ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Fred Ansley Service

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He was reared in Sharon, Pennsylvania, attending the public school and graduating from the Sharon high school. He also attended Washington-Jefferson College, after which he entered the Columbian (later known as the George Washington University), District of Columbia, graduating from the law department of that institution in 1901. He was admitted to the bar the same year in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and was associated with his uncle, A. W. Williams, until the latter was elevated to the bench, in 1904. Politically, Mr. Service was a supporter of the Republican party and a member of the Masonic Lodge of his home town.

He attended Sharon public schools, was for three years a student at Washington and Jefferson College, then went for his professional study to the Law School of Columbian University, now George Washington University, in Washington, District of Columbia, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1903. Admitted to the bar in August of that year, he began his practice of law in Sharon shortly afterward, continuing his legal work down to the time of writing, along with his many other activities. For a time he was associated in law practice with his uncle, A. W. Williams, so continuing until Mr. Williams' elevation to the bench. Later Mr. Service formed a partnership with Ira B. McNeal and Martin Edward Cusick under the firm name of Service, McNeal and Cusick, later known as Service, McNeal, Cusick and Isenberg. E. V. Buckley was also associated for a time with the firm.
While continuing his practice of law, Mr. Service became increasingly interested in public affairs and in the advancement of Sharon enterprises, notably the Protected Home Circle. He was only ten years old when he attended Sunday school at the First Baptist Church with his mother, a member there, and, while there, met a Mr. Stratton, who was busily engaged in organizing the Protected Home Circle as a new fraternal insurance order. Mr. Stratton later told the sequel to the incident, which was: A few years afterward Mrs. Service, Fred Service's mother, came to the insurance company's office with her two children, asking W. S. Palmer, then supreme accountant of the order, for a clerkship in the office, her husband having recently died, leaving her in need of employment. For several years she held that clerkship. Thenceforth Fred A. Service was naturally interested in the order, of which he early became a member. As the years went on, he became increasingly active in the enterprise, taking the post of supreme solicitor in 1920, the sixth man to hold this position, succeeding the late Owen C. McLean.
For many years Mr. Service held this office, and he interested himself in every phase of insurance work. He was active in the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania, of which he was an officer, serving as both vice-president and president of the Pennsylvania Fraternal Congress. For some years he was influential in the National Fraternal Congress of America, helping to promote the interests of fraternal insurance, particularly from the legal side. Long experience along these lines made him an authority on insurance law, and the Protected Home Circle was fortunate in having such a man for its solicitor.
This knowledge proved particularly valuable to insurance organizations of this sort when Mr. Service went to the State Senate. Long active in Sharon and Mercer County affairs, holding different public offices, he was elected State Senator from the Mercer-Crawford district in the autumn of 1920 and took office in 1921, succeeding Senator James M. Campbell. While in the Senate, until 1923, he served on different committees, including the insurance committee. For a decade Pennsylvania's fraternal insurance societies had been seeking legislation governing their conduct in a clear way, but such bills had failed of passage, session after session. Senator Service made the matter a particular personal interest, and kept after the Senate until the desired laws were created and the Governor signed them. Fraternal insurance publications have described this legislation as constituting "one of the best fraternal bills that had ever been passed in any State."
Mr. Service's work in this connection attracted nation-wide attention, and he was often consulted from distant quarters concerning insurance matters. He was a member of the Mercer County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He was a director of the Protected Home Circle and of the First Federal Savings & Loan Bank, as well as a president of the Sharon Kiwanis Club. During the World War period, in 1917 and 1918, Senator Service was active in Liberty Loan drives. He belonged to the Chamber of Commerce, the Sharon Country Club, the Phi Gamma Delta and Phi Delta Phi fraternities, and the Free and Accepted Masons, in which he was affiliated with Sharon Lodge and the Knights Templar Commandery, held the thirty-second degree of Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and was an initiate in Zem Zem Temple (Erie), Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. [HNP iii, 295]

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General Notes: Wife - Anna L. Vaughn

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from Youngstown, Mahoning Co, OH

1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 458.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 294.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 295.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 754.

5 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 296.