[M] #30142 William Harrison Mechling ( Anthony Oberly Mechling • John Jarret Mechling • Thomas Mechling • Diebold "Theobald" Mechling◊ • Diebold Mechling◊ • Martin Mechling◊ )

William was born 22 Feb 1847 in Mechling homestead, Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania. He died 7 Aug 1923 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania. He was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In 1869, he and his twin brother, Benjamin, went to Philadelphia and started a wholesale tea and spice business under the name of Mechling Brothers. This was the beginning of the business that was incorporated under the name of Mechling Brothers Manufacturing Company--a manufacturing chemists company in Camden, New Jersey. The name was later changed to Mechling Brothers Chemical Company. It was finally sold to the General Chemical Company and dissolved.

In 1905, he sold his share of the Mechling property in Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania to his son, Benjamin.

He lived in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1896 he was admitted to the Pennsylvania German Society.

His grandson, James Elliott Mechling, listed his death date as 6 Jun 1925 on this SAR application.

William married #30240 Sara Jane "Sallie" Schreiber.

Sallie was born Dec 1847. She died Dec 1937 in Camden, New Jersey.

Children of this relationship:

Dorothy Hallarn Mercy, Mechlin Mechling Macklin - Descendants of Theobald Mechling, 1728-2000, Volume VII - Thomas Mechling, (Butler, PA: Mechling Associates, 2000). Ref. as [Mercy VII-00].

Lineage application of James Elliott Mechling, SAR Membership Number: 98670, Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

Line Generation: 7

Relationship: Third Cousins Four Times Removed through Diebold "Theobald" Mechling◊