Identifier: historyofnortham02hell (find matches)
Title: History of Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of editors..
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Heller, William J. (William Jacob), 1857-1920, ed American Historical Society
Subjects: Northampton County (Pa.) -- History Northampton County (Pa.) -- Biography Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- History Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Biography
Publisher: Boston New York (etc.) The Americn historical society
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and children in all classes of society came to look upon Charles M.Schwab as a personal friend, to speak of him. intimately, and to constitute arampart of sujiport on all occasions. The following record can but faintJvsuggest the high place he has come to fill, not only, as one of his biographerswrites, as a Field Marshal of Industry, as the greatest industrialist of theworld, but as a man and an American. Charles M. Schwab was born in Williamsburg, Blair county. Pennsvl-vania, February 18, 1862, his parents, John and Pauline (Farabaugh) Schwab,moving to Loretto, Cambria county. Pennsjdvania, when he was a small boy.He attended the local schools, completing his studies in St. Franciss College.His father had engaged in business in Loretto, and also held a governmentcontract for carr\ing the mail between Loretto and the nearby town ofCresson .Station, and for a time the son, Charles M., drove the stage betweenthese places. In 1881 he entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Comi>anv
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