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- [S20] Sarah Jane Kline Houtz, Family Memorial of John Phillip Achenbach and Descendants, (Mail Printer House, Topeka, Kansas 189?).
- [S7] Battle, J. H., History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennslvania, (A. Warner & Co., 1887), page 525.
O. A. MEGARGELL, M.D., P.O. Orangeville, was born May 18, 1836, in Wayne County, Penn., a son of Joseph Megargell, who was born near Philadelphia and who married Abigail Hewett. Our subject's paternal grandfather was also named Joseph and was twelve years old when the British occupied Philadelphia. His maternal great-great-grandfather was Capt. Dethic Hewett, who was killed at the massacre of Wyoming. The Megargells are of Scotch origin; the Hewetts of Welsh. John Hewett, son of Capt. Dethic, was the first sheriff of Luzerne County, Penn. Joseph Megargell, father of our subject, was born June 20, 1803, and died in 1876. His wife was born July 7, 1817. They became the parents of seven children: Orville Albinas (subject), Thomas J., Martha R., Alice L., Mary E. and Joseph H. living, and Dethic, now deceased, who served in the Sixth Pennsylvania Reserves, Company A, in the civil war. Thomas J. is a merchant in Scranton, Penn., and Joseph is a merchant at Big Rapids, Mich.; Martha is in the millinery business at the same place, and Alice is the wife of Dr. Vance, of Rohrsburg, this county.
The others are deceased. Orville A. was reared on the farm and came to this place with his uncle, John Megargell, with whom he remained until he was fifteen years of age. He then worked at home and at the age of seventeen began teaching school. He then took up the study of medicine in the spring of 1856 and continued in his studies until graduating in June, 1859, at Castleton, Vt. In July of that year he began practice in Luzerne County where he remained 'until May, 1861; then he came to Orangeville and there he has since remained. November 3, 1859, he married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe Achenbach. Dr. and Mrs. Megargell have three children: Lillie, Fannie and George Mc. The Doctor is a member of the A. F. & A. M. of the R. A. C., and of the Commandery at Bloomsburg.
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1836 - 1892 (56 years)
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