MAHONING COUNTY OHIO BIOS: MAHON, Edward Aloyssius (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 184

        EDWARD ALOYSSIUS MAHON, who is engaged in business as a mortician
and funeral director in his native City of Youngstown, was one of the
gallant young sons who represented Mahoning County in the nation's overseas
service in the World war.
        Mr. Mahon was born at Youngstown, on the 4th of June, 1887, and is
a son of John and Bridget (Flannagan) Mahon, who were born in Ireland and
who were children at the time of the immigration of the respective families
to the Untied Stated, both having been reared and educated in Newark, New
Jersey, in which city their marriage was solemnized. John Mahon early
became a workman in the steel mills at Youngstown,Ohio, he having been a
pioneer in the puddling department of old No. 1 Furnace in this city and
having here continued his residence, a substantial and respected citizen,
until his death, in 1905. His wife survived him and was summoned to eternal
rest in the year 1918. Both were zealous and devout communicants of the
Catholic Church.
        After his graduation from the parochial school of Saint Columbus
Church in Youngstown, Edward A. Mahon was for three years a student in the
Rayen High School, and it was not until after he had participated in the
great World conflict and received at the battle front injuries that left
their permanent effect that he prepared himself for the profession and
business of which he is now a successful representative in his native city.
His higher education included one year of study in Cincinnati University,
and in 1920 he was graduated from a school of embalming. Thereafter, as a
duly licensed embalmer, he was employed in Youngstown undertaking
establishments until 1923, when he formed a partnership with Andrew
Krinspisky, with whom he has since been associated in the ownership and
conducting of a thoroughly modern undertaking establishment at 811 South
Avenue, where service and equipment are of the highest standard. Mr. Mahon
is found arrayed loyally in the ranks of the republican party, is a
communicant of the Catholic Church, in the faith, of which he was carefully
reared, and he is an active member of the Morticians Association of
Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
        In May, 1917, the month following that in which the United States
became actively involved in the World war, Mr. Mahon volunteered for
service in the United States Army. After his enlistment he was sent to Camp
Gordon, where he took on membership in the first replacement and where in
July, 1917, he was assigned to the Forty-second Division, with which he
soon afterward entered active service in France. In the lines at Belleau
Wood he received a shell wound that injured his spine and incidentally
affected his hearing, with the result that he was incapacitated for further
active service and was under treatment in military hospitals until
December, 1918, and then received a surgical certified discharge. After his
honorable discharge he returned to Youngstown, and in his native city his
circle of friends is limited only by that of his acquaintances.




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