BIOGRAPHY: Charles K. FRAZER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 196
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CHARLES K. FRAZER, the efficient Chief of Police of the city of Johnstown, is a 
son of William and Bridget (Kelly) Frazer, and was born in Johnstown, November 
2, 1865. His father died when he was young and he was reared under the care of 
an uncle, Chas. Kelly, who gave him a fair educational training through 
attendance in the St. John's Parochial High school, of Johnstown, nearly 
completing the course of that institution. Leaving school, he entered a drug 
store as a clerk, intending to learn the profession of a pharmacist, but was 
compelled t give up that idea on account of failing healthy. He then entered the 
spring department of the Gautier works of the Cambria Iron company, where he 
remained for six years. He spent about six years more in the rolling mills and 
hammer shop of this company, and then, in 1893, took a position as a laborer in 
the works of the Johnson company, where his fidelity to every trust reposed in 
him was rewarded from time to time by promotions until he was given a 
responsible post in the order office of that company, where he remained until 
1896. In April of the latter year he was elected by city councils to the office 
he now holds.
     The organization of the city by bringing into it a number of boroughs, 
formerly adjacent, has contributed to make the duties devolving upon the chief 
and his assistants very onerous by reason of the great amount of territory lying 
within the district and the necessity of keeping the force at the minimum in 
numbers.
     Mr. Frazer, with his able assistants, which consists of a lieutenant, a 
warden and eighteen patrolmen, has by the exercise of great vigilance succeeded 
in giving the city a very efficient police service and shown himself in every 
way to be the right man in the right position.
     He married Miss Lucy McCoy, a daughter of Augustine McCoy, who was a 
foreman in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad company. To this marriage 
have been born the following children: Inez De Lellis, born April 27, 1890; 
Grace Columbia, born October 21, 1891; Charles Anthony, born October 15, 1895.