BIOGRAPHY: Charles A. MATTHEWS, D.D.S., 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. 42
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CHARLES A. MATTHEWS, D.D.S., a rising young dentist of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 
is a son of Archibald and Matilda Jane (Mitchel) Matthews, and was born January 
22, 1871, at Oakhill Farm, Indiana county, Pennsylvania. (For ancestral history, 
see the sketch of his brother, Dr. W. Edgar Matthews, which appears above.) He 
was reared upon the paternal acres until sixteen years of age, received his 
early education in the common schools of his native county. He still further 
prepared himself for a professional career by attending the academies of Armagh 
and Cramer, of Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and the Morrell institute at 
Johnstown, graduating from the latter institution in 1890. After graduating he 
accepted a position as chemist with the Cambria Iron company, which position he 
filled for two years.
    Having decided upon dentistry as a life profession, he entered the dental 
department of the University of Maryland, at Baltimore from which well-known 
institution of technical learning he graduated in 1894, and the same year 
located in Johnstown, this county, where he has since practiced with profit to 
himself and with credit to the profession he represents.