Charles Wesley Matthews and Minnie Hicks

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Husband Charles Wesley Matthews ¹

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           Born: 23 Dec 1855 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: George Matthews (      -1883) 1
         Mother: Margaret Dalzell (Abt 1817-Abt 1870) 1

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       Marriage: 5 Nov 1899 2

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   Other Spouse: Jeanette Maguire (      -1890) 2 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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Wife Minnie Hicks ²

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           Born:  - Jefferson Co, PA
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         Father: Charles M. Hicks (Abt 1843-Aft 1918) 2 3
         Mother: Rebecca McSparrin (Abt 1847-1912) 2

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Children

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1 F Nellie Matthews ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 M Charles Clyde Matthews ²

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3 F Hazel Viola Matthews ²

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Wesley Matthews

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He was born in Allegheny City (Pittsburgh, North Side), Pennsylvania, and there grew to manhood. He attended public school until eleven years of age, then became a messenger boy in the employ of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, continuing as such five years. He was then sixteen years of age, and able to be of great assistance to his father, who was then conducting a photograph gallery in the North Side. He continued as his father's assistant for some time, then entered the employ of the Allegheny County Light Company, one of the first companies to install electric light service in Pittsburgh. From that company he went to the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, (later the Aluminum Company of America,) and upon their removal in 1890 to the newly founded town of New Kensington, in Westmoreland County, he accompanied the plant as engineer and electrician. Beginning in 1890 he filled the position of chief engineer. For twenty-five years Mr. Matthews was a supporter of Prohibition, and eventually began to see signs that his faith and perseverance was about to be rewarded by the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States outlawing the liquor traffic. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, as were his parents, they giving their son the name of one of the founders of that denomination, Charles, brother of John Wesley. He was a member of New Kensington Lodge, No. 1048, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 583.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 584.

3 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 471.