BIO: Charles RUNYON, Beaver County, PA
    
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    BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
    of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
    Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 148-151
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    CHARLES RUNYON, manager of the Keystone Tumbler Co., of Rochester, Pa., is
  one of the enterprising and energetic men of that borough, and is well known
  throughout the county as fully worthy of the esteem in which he is held. He
  was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, and is a son of Philip Runyon. He came to
  Rochester, in 1875, and started a grocery store on New York street; this
  business he continued with much success for three years. He then entered the
  employ of the Rochester Tumbler Co., and so won the confidence of the firm
  that he soon worked himself up to the position of assistant manager of the
  plant. When the Keystone Tumbler Co. was organized, he was one of its
  promoters and stockholders, and was made general manager of that company. The
  company was organized, in 1897, and the plant was built on the site of the old
  Agnes brick
    
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  yard on Railroad avenue. It is a three-story building, 360x110 feet, with
  basement, and the company employ upwards of three hundred men. They
  manufacture blown and pressed glass tumblers, plain and decorated. Their work
  is of a superior quality, and they ship direct to jobbers throughout the
  United States, South America, Cuba, Mexico, and Europe. Since the company's
  organization, they have run a night and day force, and the work has gone on
  steadily.
    
    Mr. Runyon married Mary Wickham, a daughter of Jarvis Wickham, of
  Rochester, Pa., and they are the happy parents of three children, namely:
  Ethel; Laura Belle; and Charles Edwin. The subject of this sketch has been a
  member of the borough council for six years; and he is also a member of the
  I. O. O. F. He has always been a faithful attendant of the Episcopal church.
  Mr. Runyon has a bright future before him, as he is a young man with great
  determination and energy, and will make a success of anything which he
  undertakes.