BIO:  L. T. MEHRING, Germany Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 428

L. T. MEHRING, hardware dealer, Littlestown, was born in Carroll County, Md., 
November 18, 1836, a son of Daniel Mehring (now deceased), who was a prominent 
farmer and who owned six different farms in that county, which he gave to his 
children.  Our subject lived with his father until his twenty-second year, and 
obtained a good education at the subscription schools of the vicinity.  Mr. 
Mehring is the pioneer of the regular hardware business in Littlestown, to which 
place he removed in 1866, and has been continuously in that trade up to the 
present.  He carries a stock averaging the year round about $5,000, and which 
consists of all kinds of iron, steel, cutlery, glass, and everything that can be 
found in a well-conducted, first-class hardware store, the average sales 
amounting to $12,000 annually.  Mr. Mehring’s residence and store is a first-
class brick structure, fitted with all modern improvements, and heated 
throughout by steam, and at a fair valuation would be worth about $6,000.  He 
has also several valuable building lots and a farm of 123 acres of highly 
cultivated land, valued at $70 per acre.  He built, in 1885, a large public 
hall, called “The Littlestown Opera House,” capable of seating 400 people, and 
in many other ways has helped to build up and improve the town.  He is a member 
of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, and took a prominent part in building the present 
church edifice.  He was one of the first deacons under that organization.  
December 17, 1857, Mr. Mehring married Julia A. Bittinger, and seven children 
have been born to this union:  Flora B., wife of Louis W. Kobler, a coach-maker 
in Abbottstown; Mary L., a highly accomplished musician, who is teaching music 
in the vicinity; Frederick B. H., who died at the age of three years; Harry W., 
now employed in the Elgin, Ill., watch factory; John M., who died at the age of 
one year; Levi Daniel and Howard H.  Levi D. is preparing for the ministry, and 
expects to enter the sophomore class at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Penn., 
in the fall of 1886.  Howard H., the youngest, is thirteen years old.