BIO: Charles WRYE, 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 957 & 958.
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  CHARLES WRYE, postmaster of Morrisdale Mines, in Morris township, Clearfield 
county, Pa., is a leading business man of this place, a dealer in groceries, 
feed, flour and miners' supplies.  He was born in Half Moon Valley, near 
Warriors Mark, in Huntingdon county, Pa., February 8, 1875, and is a son of 
William and Mary (Basser) Wrye.
  William Wrye was born in Huntingdon county, where he died in 1892.  He was 
twice married, two sons and two daughters being born to his first union:  Isaac, 
residing at Grampian; J. P. D., residing at Winber; Rhoda, wife of George 
Grazier, of Marengo; and Mary, wife of Dr. Myers, of Osceola Mills.  Two 
daughters and two sons were born to the second marriage also:  Florence and 
Lettie, living in the old home;  Harry, who lives at Marengo; and Charles, who 
was two years old when his mother died.
  Until he was seven years old, Charles Wrye lived in the family of Daniel 
Conrad, in Huntingdon county, following the death of his mother, and then came 
to Munson and Kylertown and lived three years with Morris Dunlap.  When he was 
eleven years of age he went to live with Parker Washburn.  His boyhood thus was 
not a very happy one except as he made it so for himself and his school 
advantages were rather limited.  He went to work in the Morrisdale mines when 
twelve years of age and continued until twenty-two years old, then entering the 
employ of H. C. Shugert, a merchant, with whom he remained for five years.  In 
1905 he embarked in the mercantile business for himself and has prospered.  He 
served in the Spanish-American war as a member of the 5th Pa. Inf., for six 
months.  In politics he is a Republican and in 1905 he was appointed postmaster 
and is a popular official, and has served also as township auditor and precinct 
chairman.
  Mr. Wrye married Miss Melvina Jacobs, a daughter of Robert and Priscilla 
Jacobs, of Curtin, Center county, Pa., and they have four children:  Thelma, 
Layne, Wharton and Rex.  He belongs to the Jr. O. A. M., the P. O. S. of A., and 
the order of the Moose.  Mr. Wrye is an example of what an industrious and 
enterprising boy can do even when left entirely dependent on his own resources 
at a tender age.