BIO:  Solomon D. 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

SOLOMON D. MEHRING, carriage manufacturer, Littlestown, proprietor of one of the 
most important industries of Littlestown, was born in Adams Count in 1854, and 
is a son of John and Harriet (Sell) Mehring.  At the age of sixteen he began to 
learn carriage making with Sell & Blocher, of Littlestown, and on completing the 
same worked in various places at his trade until 1875, when he formed a 
partnership with a Mr. Hesson, and carried on the carriage-making business for 
three years at Littlestown.  They then dissolved partnership, and Mr. Mehring 
engaged in manufacturing carriage wood-work exclusively for two years.  In 1880 
he commenced the manufacture of carriages in shops at the west end of Frederick 
Street.  The business growing rapidly, however, he was obliged to have better 
facilities for carrying it on, and in 1885 he erected an elegant new brick 
residence, and near by a large two-story brick building, 31 x 70 feet, for a 
carriage warehouse, while the upper part is the paint shop and finishing room.  
Adjoining this building are the wood-workers and blacksmith’s shops.  He employs 
from twelve to fifteen hands the year round, and makes a specialty of the 
manufacture of fine buggies and carriages, the buggies averaging in price from 
$100 up, and the two-horse carriages from $175 to $250.  He allows nothing but 
the best material to be used in their construction, thus his customers are 
assured that they will receive good honest value for their money.  The business 
done for the past few years amounted to thousands of dollars annually, and is 
constantly increasing.  Mr. Mehring was married, November 11, 1874, to Miss Emma 
J. Fleiger, who has borne him five children:  Charles R., Claude E., John W., 
Robert L. and Emma Edna.  Mr. and Mrs. Mehring are both members of the Lutheran 
Church.