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Charles Mardorf
CHARLES MARDORF, at present assessor and tax collector for the borough of
Freeport, Armstrong county, was born Dec. 27, 1848, in Melsungen,
Hessen-Cassel, Germany. He has been a resident of Freeport for forty-five
years.John Mardorf, his father, was born in 1806 in the same place, and married
Catherine Wickman, who was born there in 1807. He was a tanner by trade. He
came to America in 1852, the voyage taking six weeks, and the family located
in Butler county, Pa., at Butler, where the father followed his trade and died
in 1859. The mother died there in 1886. They were members of the German
Reformed Church. Their family consisted of seven children: William, a tanner,
died in Butler, Pa.; Catherine, deceased, married William Bauers, of Butler;
August, deceased, was a cabinetmaker by trade; Elizabeth, widow of Charles
Sanders, lives in South Pittsburgh; Teresa, Mrs. Bolander, lives on the South
Side, Pittsburgh; Christian, born Jan. 23, 1847, moved to Freeport, Armstrong
Co., Pa., where he established himself in the tanning business, having one of
the most important industries of the borough in its day, and is now a dealer
in hides and tallow at the head of the firm of C. Mardorf & Sons, of
Cheswick, Pa.; Charles is at Freeport.Charles Mardorf had only limited educational privileges and is for the most
part self educated. At the age of sixteen years he started to learn the
harnessmaker’s trade, at which he worked two years. Later he took up the
tanner’s trade, following that line of work for twenty years. Forty-five years
ago, in 1868, he moved to Freeport, Armstrong county. Mr. Mardorf is an
intelligent and well informed man, and he is a much respected citizen of the
borough where most of his life has been passed. For many years he has been
active in politicis and public affairs, as a zealous member of the Republican
party. In 1889 he served as judge of elections. He was a member of the borough
council for fifteen years, and in 1907 he was elected assessor and appointed
tax collector, which offices he has filled continuously since. His long
retention in every public trust to which he has been called is sufficient
evidence of the satisfactory service he has given to his fellow citizens.In 1873 Mr. Mardorf married Elizabeth McGinley, of Freeport, daughter of
John and Catherine (Gallagher) McGinley, who were from Ireland and came to
Freeport at an early day. Mr. McGinley ran a hotel and also engaged in
teaming. Mrs. Mardorf died June 18, 1911. She was the mother of five children:
John, living at home, who is employed as clerk in the Cornell Coal Company’s
office; Charles, who died at the age of eight years; Catherine, at home, a
stenographer; Edward, who was killed in 1905 on the Pennsylvania railroad at
Johnstown, Pa.; and Mary, who is in a convent at Baden, Pa. Mrs. Mardorf and
the children are members of the Catholic Church.Source: Pages(s) 713-714, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past
and Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed October 1998 by Neil G. Anderson for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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