Biographical Sketch of Cyrus S. MARGERUM (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsyl- vania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Phila- delphia, PA, 1893, pp. 478-9. "CYRUS S. MARGERUM, the efficient manager of the Cedar Valley Lime Company, is a son of Philemon and Eleanor (Polhanieus) Margerum, and was born in Delaware county, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1846. He received his education in the common schools, and learned the trade of blacksmith with his father, with whom he worked as a partner for over twenty years. In 1889 he quit blacksmithing to become manager of the Cedar Valley Lime Company, which position he still holds. The works of this company were started about 1882 by William Bleakley, of Camden, New Jersey. The Cedar Valley lime kilns turn out nothing but wood-burnt lime, for which there is a great demand int he market. At these kilns Mr. Margerum works a regular force of twenty-two men. He has made some improvements int he methods of working, and his management has been very acceptable and entirely satisfactory to the company. "The Margerum family has been resident for several generations at Trenton, the capital of the State of New Jersey, where Philemon Margerum (father) was born. He came to Chester county in 1859, and settled at New Centre- ville, in Tredyffrin township, but afterward removed to Charlestown town- ship, where he died on August 10, 1888, at seventy-seven years of age. He was a blacksmith by trade, and a democrat in political opinion. He married Eleanor Polhanieus, a daughter of John and Mary Polhanieus, and they reared a family of three sons and three daughters: Philippina, wife of E. T. Bidding, of Montgomery county; Charles, a policeman of Philadelphia; Anna, wife of William De Haven, of Norristown, this State; John H., married Phebe Ruth, daughter of George and Sarah Ruth, served in the United States navy during the last war, and is now a resident of East Whiteland township; Cyrus S.; and Eleanora, wife of Charles Grover, of Phoenixville. Elenor, mother of C. S. Margerum, died December 16, 1891, aged eighty-two years. "In political opinion C. S. Margerum is a republican. He is a life member of Thompson Lodge, No. 340, Free and Accepted Masons, of Green Tree. "On May 14, 1868, Mr. Margerum married Emma, daughter of Samuel Rennard, a farmer of Charlestown township. To their union has been born five chil- dren, three sons and two daughters: Charles, George, William, Mary and Phoebe."