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Charles B Peters
CHARLES B. PETERS, member of the firm of McKelvey & Peters, who carry
on a thriving planing mill business at Rural Valley, was born July 28, 1878,
two miles south of that borough, son of James S. and Mary A. (Cooper) Peters.James S. Peters came to Cowanshannock township, Armstrong county, from
Philadelphia, and buying 400 acres of land about two miles south of Rural
Valley there spent the remainder of his life, dying in 1890. He was a member
of the Methodist Church, assisting generously in its support and work, holding
various offices. In politics he was Republican. He is buried in the Rural
Valley cemetery. Mr. Peters was twice married, his first wife being Susan
Smith, and their union was blessed with five children: Arabella R., Eudora J.,
Susan V., Samuel F., and Isaac Wilbert, the two latter surviving. His second
marriage was to Mary A. Cooper, to which union the following children were
born: James M., Mary I., Charles B., Etta May (who died young), Frank E.,
Robert J. (deceased) and Howard O.Charles B. Peters received a good public school education, attending high
school at Rural Valley and Whitesburg. After learning the carpenter’s trade he
followed farm work for five years, and for the next five years was engaged as
traveling salesman, selling machinery for the International Harvester Company
and the Empire Grain Drill Company. His territory was in Armstrong county.
After this experience he was engaged in the painting business for two years
before entering his present line, the lumber and planing mill business. On
March 18, 1908, he formed the association with E. L. McKelvey which has since
been maintained under the firm name of McKelvey & Peters, who have a well
equipped plant and are engaged as manufacturers and dealers in siding,
ceiling, flooring, molding, bill stuffs, windows, doors, frames, turned work,
everything, in fact, which may be produced in a first-class shop of the kind.
They make a specialty of custom work. The establishment is well patronized by
contractors in the locality, and has a high reputation for the good grade of
its work.The success Charles B. Peters has had as a business man has won him the
confidence of his fellow citizens in a high degree, and he has been chosen to
various local offices, having served as member of the school board, auditor
and road master, in all these positions doing characteristically good work and
showing commendable public spirit. On Nov. 4, 1913, he was elected burgess of
Rural Valley borough. He is a Republican on purely political questions. He is
a member of the M. E. Church, in which he has been very active, having served
as steward and Sunday school teacher. Socially he is a member of Rural Valley
Lodge, No. 766, I. O. O. F., and of the Volunteer Fire Company of Rural
Valley, of which he has been secretary for many years.On Oct. 19, 1898, Mr. Peters was married to Mary E. Wagner, daughter of
Jacob and Mary Wagner, of Plum Creek township, this county. They have six
children: James B., Jacob D., William J., Berten E., Thelma Elizabeth and Own
Clair.Source: Pages 463-464, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J. H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed September 1998 by James R. Hindman for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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