Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Charles F. September 2, 1881 - 
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Source: History of Blair County, PA, Vol. II, 1931
Author: Tarring Davis

  CHARLES F. ANDERSON, proprietor of the Wholesale Paper and 
Twine Company that bears his name, was born in Altoona, 
September 2, 1881.  A. J. Anderson, his father, was a native 
of Martinsburg, Blair County, and began his career as a 
retail clothing merchant, a vocation which he later followed 
at Altoona.  Here, he founded the Edison Electric Company, 
which he subsequently sold to the Penn Central Light & Power 
Company.  He died in 1917 and his wife, Jennie C. (O'Hara) 
Anderson, who was born at Munster, Cambria County, Pa., died 
in 1925.  Charles F. Anderson graduated from the Altoona 
High School in 1899, and for a short time thereafter was 
employed by the Union Furnace Manufacturing Company.  He 
then spent two years in the coal business in Colorado and, 
after his return to Altoona, established the Anderson Paper 
& Twine Company in June, 1905.  In 1918, he enlarged his 
facilities by the acquisition of a plant at Johnstown, Pa., 
and now employs some twenty-five persons.  He is also a 
director of the First National Bank.  He is a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, trustee of Altoona 
Hospital, and the Blairmont Country Club.  He is a 
Republican in politics and is a communicant of St. Mary's 
Roman Catholic Church, Hollidaysburg, Pa.  Mr. Anderson was 
united in marriage to Margaret S. Beamer, of Tyrone, Pa., a 
daughter of James A. and Sarah Beamer, and to this union 
have been born three children: Jane; Sarah, the wife of 
George C. Wilson, Jr., of Tyrone, Pa., and Margaret. 

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