MUSKINGUM COUNTY OHIO - BIO: STEWART, Charles Orrin (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO - The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, page 316-317

        CHARLES ORRIN STEWART. One of the establishments that contribute
much to Zanesville's importance as an industrial center is the
Kearns-Gorsuch Bottling Company, an industry whose products of bottles and
jars are distributed all over the United States. The local Zanesville man
primarily responsible for the growth of this industry is Charles Orrin
Stewart, now secretary and general manager of the company.
        Mr. Stewart was born at Zanesville, January 7, 1877, son of
Cornelius and Martha (Leasure) Stewart. His parents were born and reared in
Muskingum County. His paternal grandfather, Lewis Stewart, was a native of
New Jersey, and became a farmer in Falls Township of Muskingum County.
Cornelius Steweart likewise was a farmer, and also a dealer, buyer and
shipper, of horses, and a man of activity in the public affairs of
Zanesville. He served as a soldier in the latter part of the Civil war, and
was a member of St. James Episcopal Church. He died in 1912, at the age of
sixty-five, and his widow is still living at Zanesville.
        Third in a family of four children, Charles O. Stewart attended the
public schools of Zanesville until he was thirteen and since then has been
making his own way in the world. After a brief period as clerk in Brendel's
Shoe Store he became an employe of the offices of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, remaining there ten years, beginning as messenger boy and working
up to chief rate clerk. For two years after leaving the railroad he was
rate clerk and traffic manager for the Eastern Tube Company of Zanesville.
        In 1904 he joined the Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company. This business
had been established and incorporated in 1893, but it was still a modest
plant when Mr. Stewart entered its service as bookkeeper and office
manager. In 1906 he was promoted to secretary, and he has been a factor in
the rapid growth and development of the industry during the past twenty
years. The company is now a $500,000 corporation, and it is known as the
Kearns-Gorsuch Bottle Company division of the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company of
Wheeling. The offices and works are at 126 Market Street, and plant No. 2
is at Ridge Avenue and the Terminal Railway. This company manufactures
flint glass bottles and jars of all kinds, and in normal periods it has on
its pay roll 800 workers. Consequently it is a business that contributes
directly to the general welfare and prosperity of Zanesville.
        Mr. Stewart is also a director in the Muskingum Coffin Company, the
Clossman Hardware Company, and is a stockholder in the Zanesville Bank &
Trust Company and the Old Citizens National Bank. During the World war he
was a member of all the local committees for raising funds, and was a
member of the War Service Committee of the Glass Manufacturers' Association
of the United States. He has for three years been a director in the Glass
Container Manufacturer' Association.
        Mr. Stewart is a director of the Chamber of Commerce and the
Zanesville Manufacturers; Association, belongs to the Zanesville Golf Club,
the Zane Club, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Amity Lodge,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Zanesville Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, Zanesville Council, Royal and Select Masters, Cyrene Commandery,
Knights Templar and Aladdin Temple of the Mystic Shrine.
        On June 20, 1906, at Zanesville, he married Miss Florence Neely, a
native of Morgan County. Her father, Thomas Neely, is a substantial farmer
and merchant at Neelyville, in Morgan County. Mr. Stewart is a member of
St. James Episcopal Church. They have two children, Louise Neely and
Charles Thomas.


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