Melvin E. Herb was born 6 April 1913 in Hegins Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, the son of Thomas Ezra Herb (1891-1961) and Mabel May [Stutzman] Herb (1893-1936). He married Helen Virginia Klouser, who was born 24 November 1917, a daughter of Charles Klouser and Kate Klouser, of Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Melvin died on 9 November 1963 in Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Helen died on 16 May 1999. For many years, Melvin operated a farm in Lykens Township, near Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.
In April 1949, Melvin Herb was featured on the cover of Swift News, an official publication of the Swift Company, which was a major, national meat processing and packing company, with a plant in Harrisburg, where Melvin worked. The caption for the photo stated:
When ivory clouds replace the gray, when our warmed earth spills choked streams on the lowlands, farmers prepare for another growing season, another harvest. Melvin Herb is one of these. Employed at the Swift plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he works in the assembly packing cooler, Herb operates a farm at Gratz, Pennsylvania. There he raises the usual crops, but his great interest is in breeding prize-winning Belgian draft horses. Melvin and two of the several fine animals he has raised were photographed last spring by Swift News photographer Ed Hois.
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