Charles C. Applegate    

CHARLES C. APPLEGATE, one of Allentown’s rising young business men and a member of the firm of L. H. Yeager & Co., was born August 19, 1886, in South Bethlehem, Pa. He was a son of the late Quintus C. and Sybil (Lambert) Applegate. He attended the public schools of South Bethlehem, and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1904. His first employment was with the Lehigh Valley Railroad in the yard, divisional and general offices, and clerical capacities. He remained with this corporation until January, 1913, when he became connected with the John Wanamaker store in New York City in secretarial and salesman capacities. Here he remained until January, 1917, when he came to Allentown and was elected vice president and a member of the directorate of L. H. Yeager & Co. This firm is one of the leading wholesalers and retailers of crockery and chinaware in eastern Pennsylvania. In January, 1917, he married Miss Hilda Yeager, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Yeager.

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