Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Cressman, Charles N.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Rockhill Township


   CHARLES N. CRESSMAN manufacturer, P.O. Sellersville, was 
born in Sellersville March 16, 1861.  The Cressman family is 
of German descent. The father of Charles N., named Allen R., 
was born in Sellersville and learned the manufacture of 
cigars with Samuel B. Sellers, a wholesale dealer in cigars 
in Sellersville.  He married Anna M. Grove, a native of New 
Britain township, and Charles N. was a son of this union.  
He learned his father's trade and is now in business with 
his father, the firm being known as Allen R. Cressman & Son, 
manufacturers of fine cigars.  Charles N. Cressman is also a 
notary public, being first appointed under Governor Pattison 
in 1883 and re-appointed by him in 1886 and by Governor 
Beaver in 1887.  He is married to Minna Leatherman, by whom 
he had one child, Edward L. He is a member of the Lutheran 
church and is a republican politically.