John Meehan (1894 July 12-1943 September 6), worked most of his life as security guard, including a long stint at the Philadelphia Coke Co., Inc., located at 4501 Richmond Street in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia. Philadelphia Coke operated from 1929 until 1982.

Meehan was also a boxer in the early twentieth century in Philadelphia, fighting under the name “Young Jack Randle.” According to Meehan's grandson, he took the name “Young” Jack Randle as there was a much more famous fighter named Jack Randle.

He was hired to work as a security guard, or patrolman, on the grounds of the Sesquicentennial Exposition held in Philadelphia.

Donor believes his grandfather fought in the lightweight boxing weight class. Meehan told his family that he was in the ring at Municipal Stadium at the Sesquicentennial during the famous Dempsey-Tunney Fight of 1926, which 120,000 people attended.

Meehan died at the age of 49 after completing his shift at the Coke Plant of a heart attack. The donor,also named aged 78 in 2016, knew his grandfather as a young boy and was 6 years old when he died. He is also named John Meehan and supplied all of the biographical details above.