William Hubbs ('Bill', 'Meck') Mechling
| William Hubbs ('Bill', 'Meck') Mechling | |||||||||
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| Born | 1888 | ||||||||
| Died | 1953 | ||||||||
| Residence |
Exeter College, Oxford The Bartram, Chestnut and 33rd Street, Philadelphia [1917] Cheltenham Road, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia [1923] Eric Avenue and 'D' Street, Philadelphia, Pa. [1927] Linton, Harestone Hill, Caterham, Surrey [1931] | ||||||||
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museum work archaeologist | ||||||||
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1915.10.27 proposed by R.R. Marett, seconded by M. Longworth Dames
1915 start in list
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Born December 10, 1888 at Germantown, Pa. Entered Freshman Year; Germantown Academy. Class Track Team, Cap and Gown Committee, Cercle Francais, French Play
William Hubbs Mechling (1888–1953) received his A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1910. He went as the Hispanic Society of America 'Fellow', as one of the half-dozen student researchers to participate in the International School of American Archaeology and Ethnology in México City, in its second year of operation in 1911–12, when Boas served as its director. Mechling received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1917, and was then hired by the Field Museum in Chicago. Because of his 'reserve officer' status, he was called up to satisfy various wartime obligations before he assumed his duties at the museum. Mechling was commissioned as an ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) agent and quickly recruited his friend J. Alden Mason. [Spying by American Archaeologists in WWI by David L. Browman]
W H married Sarah J Schreiber and had 2 children
B.F. and W.H. Mechling, of Germantown, proprietors of the Mechling Bros. Manufacturing Company
William Harrison 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 June 1925 on this SAR application.
William married Sara Jane Sallie Schreiber 13 June 1872 in Allentown, Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania.
Sallie was born Dec. 1847. She died Dec. 1937 in Camden, New Jersey.
Children Benjamin Schrieber Mechling 1874-7 July 1945; Edward Anthony Mechling 21 Jan 1878-5 Mar. 1938
Publications
External Publications
Malecite tales, by W. H. Mechling.
Main Author: Mechling, W. H.
Language(s): English
Published: Ottawa, Government Printing Bureau, 1914.
The Malecite Indians, with notes on the Micmacs (Anthropologica) Unknown Binding – 1958
by William Hubbs Mechling (Author)
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