Allen R. Mechling, Forest Co., was born on a farm near West Sunbury, Butler Co., PA, Oct. 5, 1865; was educated in the common schools and West Sunbury Academy; clerked in a store for several years and moved to Clarington, Forest Co., in 1894, and engaged in the mercantile business, his present occupation; was appointed postmaster at Clarington in 1897, 1901 and 1905; elected to the House of Representatives in Nov. 1908.
Source: Smull’s Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania, 1910; Biographical Sketches
Source: Smull’s Legislative Hand Book and Manual of the State of Pennsylvania, 1910; Biographical Sketches
