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- [S4] 1870 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com).
Name: Charles C Schwob Estimated Birth Year: abt 1869 Age in 1870: 1 Birthplace: Ohio Home in 1870: Miltonsburg, Monroe, Ohio Race: White Gender: Male
- [S38] 1880 US Federal Census.
- [S19] 1900 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com).
Name: Charles Schwab [Charles Schwob] Home in 1900: Clay, Marshall, West Virginia Age: 31 Birth Date: Mar 1869 Birthplace: Ohio Race: White Ethnicity: American Relationship to head-of-house: Head Father's Birthplace: France Mother's Name: Wilhelmina Mother's Birthplace: Germany Spouse's Name: Gertrude Marriage Year: 1894 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 6 Residence : Moundsville City, Marshall, West Virginia Occupation:
- [S30] 1910 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com).
- [S24] 1920 US Federal Census, (www.ancestry.com).
Name: Charles C Schwob Home in 1920: Mounsville Ward 4, Marshall, West Virginia Age: 50 years Estimated Birth Year: abt 1870 Birthplace: Ohio Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: Gertrude Father's Birth Place: Alsace-Lorraine Mother's Birth Place: Germany Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Image: 553
- [S927] Obituary.
Moundsville Daily Echo, Monday, July 9, 1956
CHARLES CLEMENT SCHWOB
Charles Clement Schwob, 87, Moundsville banker and retired industrialist, died at his home at 320 Seventh street, at 8 o?clock Sunday evening.
Mr. Schwob was endowed with longevity, and even at 80 did not have the gray hairs nor the debility of many men of 60 and less. In fact, age didn?t really tell on him till two years ago he broke his leg in a fall down the cellar steps, and it was more than a year before he could walk without a cane again. Then about two months ago he came down the illness that led to the end.
He was born in Miltonsburg, Monroe county, Ohio, son of John Adam and Wilhelmina Schuetz Schwob.
The family moved to Moundsville Aug. 14, 1879, just before the Moundsville ?boom?, when the Fostoria Glass, the Echo and others came here.
The Schwob family was in woodworking business, and it was in the early days a logical step from making caskets to conducting funerals. That was the time when professional standards were being established in the undertaking business, and C. C. Schwob, his brother J. W. Schwob, and his brother-in-law, E. C. Grisell, were among the very first in West Virginia to take the state board examination and be licensed as professional funeral directors. Their establishment at that time was on Thirteenth street later moving to the substantial brick building which the elder Mr. Grisell built at 916 Lafayette avenue.
The Grisell side of the family has carried on the funeral service to the present day, while the Schwob side of the family went into the manufacture of grain cradles.
MANUFACTURING
That is an item that many people today have never seen. Grain cradles were like a farmer?s scythe with sharp blade and also a row of light wood fingers to catch the shocks of grain while still upright. Today, of course, farmers either use machinery for gathering their grain or cannot afford the labor of cutting it by hand.
The J. A. Schwob Grain Cradle factory was in the building running south from Thirteenth street, now used by Marx as a warehouse. It used to have a railroad siding up to its back doors. Charles Schwob has made many trips into West Virginia forest lands and other places to buy the special wood required, as well as traveling through the states taking orders.
The Schwobs were briefly in the furniture business, where the Chamber of Commerce building now is on Seventh street.
Laurel (Kern) Meyer
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1869 - 1956 (87 years)
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