Bios: ABRAHAM SECHLER 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
  
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      ABRAHAM SECHLER,
  
  [p. 389] who is engaged in a marble business at Princeton, has resided
  here since 1853. He was born March 8, 1830, in Butler County,
  Pennsylvania, in a log house which his father built and which is still
  standing. He is a son of Abraham and Nancy Sechler.
  
  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. His grandparents,
  however, were American born and his father was born in Northumberland
  County, Pennsylvania. When twenty-three years old the father moved to
  Butler County and settled near Harmony, where he built his house and
  conducted a mill for thirty years. He died in 1872. He was married three
  times; first, to Nancy Boyer, who died in 1832, the mother of six
  children, namely: John, Jacob, Abraham, Katherine, Susan and an infant.
  The second marriage was to Mary Bear and they had seven children:
  Michael, Samuel, Sarah, Mary, Lizzie, Nancy and Elizabeth. His third
  marriage was to the widow of Jacob Davidson, and there was no issue to
  this union.
  
  Abraham Sechler resided in Butler County, 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 in 1853 he
  married Caroline Houk, a daughter of Philip and Isabella (White) Houk,
  and immediately moved to Princeton. He continued to follow the carpenter
  trade and erected a number of the buildings still standing in this
  neighborhood. Since 1887, Mr. Sechler has been conducting a marble
  business at Princeton and his sons are more or less interested in the same.
  
  The first wife of Mr. Sechler was born October 13, 1832, and died June
  15, 1886. There were nine children born to that union, namely: William
  W.. Edwin T., Wesley W., Samuel A., Philip H., John A., Mary E.,
  Margaret I., and a babe that died unnamed. William W. Sechler was born
  May 13, 1854, married Mary Rutter and they live in Dayton, Ohio. They
  have four children: Lawrence, Fannie, Leonora and Minnie. Edwin T.
  Sechler was born March 31, 1856, married Sarah Hoon and they live in
  Princeton. They have one son, Harry. Wesley W. Sechler was born April
  16, 1858, married Frances Criswell and they have one son, Edward. Samuel
  R. Sechler was born October 7, 1860, and died May 30, 1889. John A.
  Sechler was born April 19, 1870, and resides at home. Mary Sechler was
  born March 24, 1863, married J. H. Boyd and they have had these
  children: Katherine, Nina, Loy, Gareth, Merril, Maurice, Margaret,
  living, and Willie and Minnie, deceased. Philip H. Sechler was born
  September 9, 1866, married Agnes Boak and they live in Butler. They have
  three children: Gula, Jean and Wendell. Margaret E. Sechler was born
  July 8, 1878, and died December 7, 1898.
  
  Mr. Sechler was married (second) March 7, 1888, at New Wilmington, by
  Rev. J. M. Mealy, to the estimable lady who still presides over his
  household. For fifteen years prior to her marriage she was an acceptable
  and efficient teacher in the public schools in Allegheny, Washington and
  Mercer Counties. Her maiden name was Mary A. Leach and she was born July
  27, 1840 in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of John
  W. and Elizabeth J. (Moore) Leach. The father of Mrs. Sechler was born
  January 1, 18l7, and died December 9, 1870. His wife was born in 1809
  and died in 1845. They had three children: Mary A., Elizabeth and James
  P. Mr. and Mrs. Sechler are members of the Hermon Presbyterian Church,
  in which he has been an official for many years, serving as trustee,
  member of the sessions, treasurer and elder, having united with this
  church in 1854.
  
  Mr. Sechler has been one of the most active men in public affairs in his
  community ever since settling at Princeton. He has 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. He has ever been a loyal citizen of his country. 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 is a valued member of Princeton Post, No.
  420, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is past quartermaster and
  chaplain.
  
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  20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
  Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
  Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
  
  Updated: 15 Oct 2001