[p. 998] superintendent of the outside construction work of the Pennsylvania Engineering Works, at New Castle, is a traveled and experienced man in his line of activity and has been a resident of this city for the past twenty-seven years. He was born in 1859, at Pittsburg, Pa.
Mr. Beisel's boyhood was spent at school and in the occupations which appeal to youth until he entered upon his apprenticeship to the machinist's trade, and when twenty-one years old he came to New Castle in order to enter the Withrow & Gordon Engineering Works. He remained with that firm until it dissolved, and then went to Philadelphia, where for twelve years he was superintendent of works in which Mr. Gordon was interested, and for seven years with W. W. Lindsay & Co., of that city, as superintendent of erections. He dissolved his pleasant relations with that firm in order to come to the Pennsylvania Engineering Company, where he has continued until the present. The nature of his work has taken him all over the country, even to Nova Scotia, and the larger part of his time is taken up in travel. Nevertheless, he takes much interest in New Castle and has a pleasant home in this city. In October, 1883, Mr. Beisel was married to Miss Mary E. McBride, who was born and reared at New Castle and is a daughter of Hon. Thomas McBride, formerly mayor of this city. Mrs. Beisel is a member of the First Presbyterian Church.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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