CHARLES A. WETHERHOLD, merchant of Allentown, son of Elias, was born June 23, 1862, on his father's farm at Hynemansville. in Weisenberg township. and there he was brought up and employed until he became twenty years of age, having in the meantime received his education in the township school, and in business colleges, at Allentown and Easton. He was then employed at fanning and storekeeping at Wadsworth Ohio and Kempton. Pa. for three years, when he secured a position as clerk in a large hotel at Milford Del., and remained there four years. His father having died, he then conducted the fanning operations until 1906, when the stock was sold and he removed to Allentown, where he became a member of the Wetherhold Grocery Company, located at Nos. 212-14 North Fifth Street, and he has continued in the business until the present time. While at Hynemansville he filled the office of postmaster for ten years and was a member of the Reformed congregation at the Seiberling Union church, which he served as a deacon.

In 1881 Mr. Wetherhold was married to Sallie A. Leiby, daughter of Daniel Leiby. of Mosserville, in Lynn township, and they have three children: Ralph V., Mark A. and Angeline, a school teacher of Allentown.