OBIT: William Bartlett MEGAHAN, 1941, native of Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM BARTLETT MEGAHAN

  William Bartlett Megahan, aged 93 years, a native of Berlin, who was a well 
known resident of Meyersdale nearly three quarters of a century ago, died last 
Thursday in Columbia Hospital, Pittsburgh.
  Born in Berlin on March 24, 1847, Mr. Megahan came to Meyersdale at the age of 
23 years and was enrolled in the first census of Meyersdale, which was taken 
during the month of January, 1871, prior to the incorporation of the village 
into a borough.  He remained here for some years, having been engaged as a 
contracting plasterer.  Later he removed to Wilkinsburg, where he resided 51 
years, and where he founded the warehouse and moving business now conducted by 
two of his sons.  He was a member of the South Avenue Methodist Church of 
Wilkinsburg during the more than a half century that he resided in that city.
  He was united in marriage with a daughter of the late Frederick Naugle, during 
the time that Mr. Naugle conducted a hotel in Meyersdale.  During the few years 
prior to his death Mr. Megahan lived with a daughter, Mrs. E. Foster Andrews, at 
920 Milton Avenue, Regent Square, in Pittsburgh.
  Mr. Megahan is also survived by two other daughters, Mrs. S. R. Alman, of Los 
Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. H. S. Docker, of Philadelphia.  Besides the two sons, 
who took over the moving and warehouse business of their father, and whose given 
names are not mentioned in the notice of his death, Mr. Megahan is survived by 
four other sons, H. D. Megahan, treasurer of the Philadelphia Company, 
Pittsburgh; Arthur F. Megahan, of Denver, Colo.; Dr. C. R. Megahan, of 
Follansbee, W.Va., Justice of the Peace Frederick N. Megahan, of Wilkinsburg.
  Mr. Megahan was an uncle of the well known local post-office employee, Eugene 
C. Naugle, having been a brother-in-law of the late Joseph F. "Hooker" Naugle, 
father of Eugene Naugle.  Many of the older citizens of Meyersdale and vicinity 
will remember Mr. Megahan, who was held in high esteem by all who had the 
pleasure of his acquaintance. 
  Funeral services were held Friday night in the Eaton Funeral Home, 733 Ross 
Avenue, Wilkinsburg, with interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Berlin, 
Saturday afternoon.

Meyersdale Republican, January 2, 1941