MAHONING COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: GIERING, Charles C. (published 1925)
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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 192

        CHARLES C. GIERING was a resident of Youngstown, Mahoning County,
during his entire life. Here he became successful in his business
activities, and here he so ordered his course as to merit and receive the
confidence and esteem of the community that ever represented his home and
to which he was loyal in the fullest sense.
        Mr. Giering was born at Youngstown on the 27th of November, 1876,
and here his death occurred February 11, 1923. He was a son of Louis and
Mary (Andler) Giering and his father long operated bottling works in
Youngstown as one of the substantial and honored citizens of the Mahoning
County metropolis. The subject of this memoir attended the public schools
until he was thirteen years old, and thereafter, while employed in his
father's bottling works, advanced his education by attending night school
besides completing a course in a business college. At the age of twenty-two
years he purchased a half interest in the bottling works of his brother
Jacob, and this fraternal and business partnership continued twelve years.
Charles C. then purchased his brother's interest, and thereafter he
successfully conducted the business in an individual way until shortly
before his death. He was a director of the Ohio State Bottlers Association,
and held various official positions in this organization. He was a valued
member of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce and was a charter member of
the Youngstown Automobile Association. In the York Rite of the Masonic
fraternity his maximum affiliation was with the local commandery of Knights
Templars and in the Consistory of the Scottish Rite at Cleveland he
received the thirty-second degree, besides being a noble of the Mystic
Shrine. He was affiliated also with the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Orders of Eagles. In
politics he was a democrat with independent proclivities, and in his native
city he was an active member of the First Reformed Church, as is also his widow.
        September 6, 1913, marked the marriage of Mr. Giering and Miss
Lottie Meredith, who was born at Marietta, Ohio, April 3, 1887, and who is
a daughter of George and Amy (Carver) Meredith, both of whom likewise are
natives of Ohio, where they now maintain their home in the City of
Springfield. Mr. Giering is survived also by three children, whose names
and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Louis Jacob, August 24,
1914; Alice Marie, July 9, 1916; and Charles Noble, November 3, 1922. The
devoted husband and father died about three months after the birth of the
younger of the two sons.

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