Person:Charles Wetmore (10)

"Charles C. Wetmore had rather unusual advantages for obtaining an education, and availed himself of them with unusual diligence. Taking especial delight in the exercise of hhis ratiocinative faculties, he wisely determined that destiny had appointed him for work of that nature, and accordingly took a thorough Mathematical course in Union College. He subsequently adopted civil engineering as his life-work, and about 1856 surrendered a good position on the New York Central Railroad for the purpose of engaging in his chosen vocation in Warren. His success was assured from the first. He had one of the larger contract on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, and was a pioneer inn the projection and construction of the Oil Creek road.

"He was a man of great executive abilities, was full of energy and activity, and was gifted with remarkable powers of endurance. He was, moreover, shrewd and enterprising in business matters, and in a few years accumulated a fortune. Just previous to his death he became largely interested in the lumber business, on the Allegheny River and its tributaries.

"During the later years of his life he was much embarrassed by I'll health, which threatened to result in consumption, and passed the winter of 1865-66 in Florida. But he was not to meet his death in this manner. On the 23d day of April, 1867, he was thrown from a spring wagon by a span of spirited horses, and received injuries on the head and back from which he died in a few hours. During his live he had the respect and esteem of all who knew him, and because of his energy and great abilities would have been known, had he lived but a few year longer, not only for his great wealth, but for his public spirit and benefactions.

"He married Rose L., only daughter of Chapin Halll, on the 15th day of December, 1857, and at his death left two children--Chapin Hall and Charles Delevan."

         John S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 The Wetmore Family of America and its Collateral Branches with Genealogical, Bigraphical and Historical Notice
   p. 521.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Schenck, John S, and W. S. (William S.) Rann. History of Warren County, Pennsylvania: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. (Syracuse, New York: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887)
   658-659.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Find s Grave.

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