BIO: Charles C. ROWE, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 187.
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C. C. ROWE
Orbisonia, Pa.

Meats and Provisions:  C. C. Rowe was born at Orbisonia, Pa., February 
24, 1873, a son of John James Rowe, who was a butcher for fifty years, 
and who died in 1923, at the age of seventy years.  He married Sarah 
Carothers, a daughter of Abraham Carothers, who built the Eagle Hotel 
at Orbisonia.  She is deceased, having died in 1914, at the age of 
seventy years.  C. C. Rowe, the son, attended the grade schools of 
Orbisonia, Pa.  Was for thirteen years a machinist with the 
Westinghouse Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., and for nine years a machinist 
at Johnstown, Pa.  At the age of fifteen years he began to learn the 
butcher trade under the care of a master butcher, his father.  He 
succeeded his father in the butcher business in 1914.  During the World 
War he was engaged in the meat and provision business.  In politics is 
a Republican.  He married Mamie Briggs, a daughter of Wilson and 
Elizabeth Briggs.  Her father was long a popular and obliging passenger 
conductor of the E.B.T.R.R. Company, and was highly esteemed by a host 
of friends and acquaintances; he was killed in an accident on the East 
Broad Top Railroad thirty years ago.  The following are the sons and 
daughters:  Martina, married to Harvey Wood, Evanstown, Ill.; Bessie, 
Evanstown, Ill.; John, in Canada; Audrey, at home; Joe, at home; Dick 
and Ruby are twins attending school.

Note: Charlie C. Rowe, 56, Mayme F. Rowe, 51, John R. Rowe, 30, Andrey 
M. Rowe, 20, Ruby M. Rowe, 14, Richard W. Rowe, 14, and Joseph C. Rowe, 
12, appear in the 1930 Oribsonia, Huntingdon County census.