BIO: Charles B. MAXWELL, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 964 & 965.
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  CHARLES B. MAXWELL, who has been a resident of Morrisdale Mines, Clearfield 
county, Pa., since November 20, 1898, has been identified with the coal industry 
since he was eleven years of age and has rapidly risen from a humble position, 
through one office of responsibility to another, until he is now general 
superintendent of the Morrisdale Coal Company and one of the most representative 
business men of Clearfield county.  He was born February 10, 1873, at Morris 
Run, Tioga county, Pa., a son of George and Margaret (Clement) Maxwell.
  For many years George Maxwell was connected with coal interests in Tioga 
county, where both he and wife were born.  For seventeen years he was 
superintendent of the Morris Run Coal Company.  In 1880 he left Tioga county and 
moved to Houtzdale, Clearfield county, where he had charge of coal operating for 
a number of years afterward.  His death occurred in 1902, at Houtzdale, where 
his widow has lived for the past thirty-one years.  Of their six children, three 
grew to maturity, namely:  Anna M., who lives at Houtzdale; James and Charles B.  
James Maxwell died in 1904, at which time he was bookkeeper for the firm of 
Harbison & Walker, of Woodland, Pa.
  Charles B. Maxwell went to school at Houtzdale until he was eleven years of 
age and then went to work in the mines, learning every detail of mine work.  For 
fifteen years he was a member of an engineering corps and for four years was 
engineer of the Morrisdale Coal Company's plant.  In 1902 he was made 
superintendent of the Broad Top operations for this company; in 1903 he was made 
superintendent of the Morrisdale and Broad Top operations, and in 1904 was 
further promoted, becoming general superintendent of all of the company's 
operations or mines.
  The Morrisdale Coal Company was organized in 1895, prior to which, from 1885, 
its operations were conducted by R. B. Wigton & Sons, and prior to that, from 
1865, by R. B. Wigton.  The plant is modern and is equipped with the latest and 
most approved machinery.  There are three shafts and two drift mines, and the 
coal is of a high grade and is well considered in the market.  The capacity is 
22,000 tons daily and employment is given 800 men.  Few mines have been operated 
more regularly than the mines of the Morrisdale Coal Company.  Mr. Wigton, the 
president of the company, is the oldest operator in the Central Pennsylvania 
field.
  On June 23, 1898, Mr. Maxwell was married to Miss Dollie B. Stine, a daughter 
of S. B. Stine, a prominent manufacturer of Osceola Mills.  Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell 
have had two children, both of whom are now deceased, neither surviving infancy.  
They are members of the Presbyterian church.  In politics Mr. Maxwell is a 
Republican.  His fraternal connections are mainly with the Masonic bodies, he 
being a member of Philipsburg Lodge, No. 391, F. & A. M.; Clearfield Chapter; 
Philipsburg Commandery; Williamsport Consistory, and Jaffa Temple of the Mystic 
Shrine at Altoona.