BIO: Ida M. (BARNER) MINGLE, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Dave Wilson Copyright 2006. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************************** __________________________________________________________ McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 153. __________________________________________________________ MRS. IDA M. MINGLE Birmingham, Pa. Postmistress: Mrs. Ida Mingle, the popular postmistress of Birmingham, Pa., was raised on a farm at Nittany, Centre County, Pa., and attended what was then called the Franklin School, at Nittany. Joseph H. Barner was her father, who died in 1909, aged seventy-six years. His wife preceded him in death in 1907, aged sixty-seven years; she was of English descent. Mrs. Ida M. Mingle was married to Blair Mingle; they came to Birmingham in 1898. Mr. Mingle was employed by the Penna. R.R. as watchman. He was killed on the railroad in 1913. In 1915, she was appointed Postmistress of Birmingham, Huntingdon County, Pa., and has been an efficient Postmistress. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church; is interested in the Ladies' Missionary Society and the Monthly Bible Class. She has two brothers: William E., of Howard, Pa.; Harry A., who is an engineer on the P.R.R., at Pittsburgh, Pa.; was in Admiral Schley's squadron, in the U.S. Navy, on Battleship Minneapolis. Schley's squadron played an important part in the Spanish-American War. She has one sister, Nannie, married to Burdine Butler, of Howard, Pa. She has one son, Harold E., at home, and one daughter, Mae, married to Paul Little, of Tyrone. The postoffice is beautifully located near the entrance of the seminary, which makes it very convenient for the students and the citizens of the community.