Rev. Lycurgus Mechling    

Rev. Lycurgus Mechling, son of William and Catharine Mechling, was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, in 1841. At the age of twenty years he enlisted in the 63d Ohio Vol. Inf. He veteraned and served until August, 1865; was four times wounded and still carries the scars of his numerous encounters on his face, in which is lodged a piece of a confederate bullet. Since the war he graduated at the Glade Run Academy in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, and at Jefferson College, Washington county, Pennsylvania, and is also a graduate of the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny City. He became pastor of the Elderton Presbyterian church in 1877, and was ordained June 29, of that year. The church had 87 members at the time he became its pastor, but under his ministrations it has increased in membership until at present it numbers 121. His brother, G. W. Mechling, D.D., has been for twenty-six years pastor of the Glade Run Presbyterian church.

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