Charles Edward Hayes and Nellie R. Beistel

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Husband Charles Edward Hayes ¹

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           Born: 26 Jul 1873 - Latrobe, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: William O. Hayes (1854-1916) 1
         Mother: Sarah Smith (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 14 Oct 1904 2

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Wife Nellie R. Beistel ²

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            AKA: Nettie Beistel 3
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         Father: Henry F. Beistel (1835-      ) 4 5 6
         Mother: Nancy Evans (      -      ) 3

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1 F Margaret Lavina Hayes ²

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2 M William Henry Hayes ²

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3 M Charles Edward Hayes, Jr. ²

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4 F Virginia Hayes ²

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General Notes: Husband - Charles Edward Hayes

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He was born at Latrobe, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and accompanied his parents in very early childhood to Union township and it was there that his childhood and early youth were passed. It was there also that he received his education at the local public schools, which he attended for some years, and then entered the Greensburg Seminary, from which he graduated. Completing his studies at the latter institution, he at once began his long and successful mercantile career by securing a position as clerk in a local establishment. Here he remained for some two years, when he obtained a better position as shipping clerk and time keeper with a firm in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. About two years later he entered the employ of the Heckla Supply Company at Trauger, one of the largest general supply companies in Westmoreland County at that period. Here he worked for a time in a clerical capacity, and three years later entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in the capacity of bill clerk at Youngwood, Pennsylvania. For a year he continued in this position and then became associated with the Westmoreland County Grocery Company, which was engaged in a large wholesale trade, as credit man, in which position he remained for some eight years. He then resigned from this position and remained for a year at work on his farm, but twelve months later once more entered the mercantile world as bookkeeper and credit man for the John W. Pollins Department Store. One year later he was appointed treasurer of this large concern and served in this office for about two years.
It was during this period that Mr. Hayes first became conspicuously active in the general business development of Greensburg. He was a man who had always been keenly interested in public affairs, and was well known for his public spirit even at an early age. He now began to take a very active part and was appointed secretary of the Business Men's Association of Greensburg. He was one of the group of men who organized the Greensburg Board of Trade, upon the formation of which he was elected to the first board of directors. When Mr. Hayes severed his connection with the Pollins Company, he became one of the largest stockholders of the Pittsburgh Envelope Company, and shortly after this he became actively associated with the management of this large concern, with the office of vice-president and general manager. After two years of this work, Mr. Hayes again retired to his farm, where he devoted another year to the supervision of it and only left what was a most congenial labor to him to accept the office of treasurer of the Board of Trade of Greensburg, which was offered him by that organization. It was during the seven months of his service in this capacity that Mr. Hayes engaged in one of his most important works, namely, the organization of the Democratic Publishing Company, which existed for the publishing of "The Democratic Daily and Weekly," which became one of the leading papers of Westmoreland County. He eventually gave up his work in connection with the Board of Trade to became president and general manager of this concern, and for a period of about eighteen months devoted his entire attention to the interests of the paper. The paper then changed hands and Mr. Hayes left it and organized the Blue Ridge Coal Company, a West Virginia corporation with offices at Pittsburgh. The business of this concern he successfully put into operation and was elected its president. Mr. Hayes did not continue to hold this office for a great length of time, however, as it used up too much of his time, which he desired to devote to a number of diversified interests and particularly to the running and management of his farm for which he had the strongest affection. He long retained his active identification with the Democratic party, and was regarded as an important factor in the operations of its local organization. In the year 1914 Mr. Hayes achieved a very notable personal triumph, being elected a city councilman to represent Southwest Greensburg, which was normally a Republican stronghold. This was the first public office which Mr. Hayes had had time to accept. He was also a member of the Woodmen of the World, in which he was especially active. In his religious belief Mr. Hayes was a Lutheran and attended the First Lutheran Church of Greensburg. He was for three years superintendent of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church Sunday School of Pleasant Unity, this church being popularly known as the Ridge Church.

1 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1137.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 1138.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 426.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 425.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 447.

6 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 538.