Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Brechbill, McClellan June 21, 1862 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 416
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    McClellan Brechbill was born in Unity township, 
Westmoreland county, Penna, June 21, 1862.  His grandfather, 
Christopher Brechbill, was born in Mt Pleasant township 
about 1795 and died at the age of seventy four.  He married 
a Miss George, a lady of Irish origin, who died at the age 
of seventy two.  The children born to their union were: Lucy 
Brechbill, Elizabeth Brechbill, Matilda Brechbill, Samuel 
Brechbill, and Bertha Brechbill.
    McClellan Brechbill's father, Samuel G Brechbill, was 
born in about 1825 in Mt Pleasant township, Westmoreland 
county, Penna, and was married to Mary Ann Moser, a native 
of the same township.  They had the following children: 
George S Brechbill, Emma B Brechbill, Charles Brechbill, 
Scott Brechbill, McClellan Brechbill, John T Brechbill, 
Laura A Brechbill, and Harvey S Brechbill.
    Samuel Brechbill served as county commissioner of 
Westmoreland county in 1882, 1883, 1884.
    McClelland Brechbill was born and raised on a farm, 
educated in the common schools of the county, Sewickley 
Academy, and Pleasant Unity Normal School.  He studied 
pharmacy ten months with Dr T L Smith of Pleasant Unity, and 
took the position of pharmacist with Drs Goodman and Heath 
at Mt Pleasant in 1880.  He remained with them four months 
when he engaged with Mr John V Stephenson, druggist at 
Greensburg; remained only a short time, going thence to 
Pittsburgh, and was there engaged with John T Kinney for 
over two years, and attended Pittsburgh College of Pharmacy 
while in his employ.  He came to Dunbar in August, 1883, and 
engaged with Shepler, Clark & Co.  Upon the dissolution of 
that firm in 1886, it was merged into the firm of R W Clark 
& Co.  Mr Brechbill still holds in his position.  Besides 
owning property at Percy, where he is interested in a drug 
store, the firm being Brechbill & Co of which he is manager. 
 He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, is a popular young 
druggist and is one of the business young men of Dunbar.

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