Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brantlinger, Charles Edwin 1893 - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  CHARLES EDWIN BRANTLINGER, proprietor of the Capital Hotel, of Hollidaysburg, 
was born at Altoona, Pa., in 1893, and is a son of William W. Brantlinger, who 
has been an engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad for fifty years and resides 
in Altoona, and of Anna (McIntosh) Brantlinger.  Graduating from the Altoona 
High School in 1910, Charles E. Brantlinger matriculated at the University of 
Pittsburgh, where he studied pharmacy, graduating in 1914. For two years 
thereafter, he operated a drug store at Pittsburgh and returned to Altoona in 
1917. In 1918, he established at Hollidaysburg a pool room and recreation hall, 
which he operated successfully until 1929. In that year, he purchased the 
Capital Hotel, a thirty room hostelry maintaining dining and coffee room 
service, and now conducts this business. Mr. Brantlinger is a member of the 
Knights of Columbus, Kiwanis Club, and Hollidaysburg Club. In October, 1914, he 
married Nana M. Calvin, of Hollidaysburg, and they are both communicants of St. 
Michael's Catholic Church. 

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