[p. 775] a physician and surgeon in active practice at Ellwood City, where he has been established since the fall of 1895, was born December 4, 1868, near Freeport, Armstrong County, Pa., and is a son of James and Sarah Elizabeth (McClellan) Iseman.
The Iseman family is an old one in Armstrong County and was founded there by Jonathan Iseman, who was a native of Germany, and he was the great-grandfather of Charles M. Iseman, of Ellwood City. His son, John Iseman, the grandfather of Dr. Iseman, was born in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where he married Mary Elizabeth Grinder.
James Iseman, son of John and Mary Iseman, was born in Armstrong County, in 1842, and died there in February, 1903, in his sixty-first year. He married Sarah Elizabeth McClellan, who was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Her grandfather was Isaiah Charles Thomas McClellan, who was a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He married a member of the Byers family, both being of Scotch-Irish extraction. The latter family has been known in Western Pennsylvania since 1740, and took an active part on many occasions in suppressing Indian outbreaks. The mother of Dr. Iseman continued to reside in Armstrong County until recently, when she joined some of her children at Seattle, Wash., where she still resides. The children born to James Iseman and his wife were: Viola Maud, who is the wife of D. F. Hill, of Armstrong County; Charles M., of Ellwood City; Martha Elizabeth, of the State of Washington; Ida May, who is the wife of E. H. Wallace, of Freeport, Pa.; Florence Julia, who resides at Seattle, Wash.; Josephine, who is also a resident of Seattle; James, who died when twenty-one years of age, and Paul and Grace, both of whom reside at Seattle.
Charles McClellan Iseman attended the schools of Armstrong County with regularity until he was sixteen years of age, when he entered the Freeport Academy, going from there to Thiel College, at Greenville; Mercer County; where he was graduated in 1891, with the degree of A. B. In the fall of the same year he entered the Western Reserve Medical College at Cleveland, where he studied for two years and in the fall of 1893 became a student of the Western Pennsylvania Medical College, at Pittsburg, where he was graduated in the class of 1894. Dr. Iseman engaged in the practice of his profession in Armstrong County for fifteen months preceding his locating at Ellwood City, in September, 1895, where he has continued to the present. He has built up a large and lucrative practice and has become a leading citizen of the place. He is a member of the Beaver County Medical Society, of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and the American National Medical Association. He belongs also to Glen Park Lodge, Odd Fellows, and to Alma Lodge, No. 420, Knights of Pythias, at Ellwood City.
On April 11, 1894, Dr. Iseman was married to Mildred Elizabeth Eichholtz, who is a daughter of John and Caroline Elizabeth (Westerfield) Eichholtz. They have one daughter, Geraldine Audrey, who was born July 22, 1895. Dr. and Mrs. Iseman are members of the Lutheran Church at Ellwood City.
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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