Robert A. Waidelich was born at Steinsville. March 23, 1884. At an early age he graduated from the Lynn township public schools, and for three years, was a teacher in that district. He was also graduated from the Pierce Business College at Philadelphia in 1905, and after his graduation he accepted a position as bookkeeper with a large Philadelphia finrm, which he served for two years. He then resigned to become a drug clerk in the Allentown stores of the American Medicine Company, of which his uncle, Jacob B. Waidelich is the proprietor, and in May, 1910, he was selected to be a business manager of the Reading store of the company, where he has shown much tact and efficiency, and the large business of that store is attributable to his successful management. He is also member of the Odd Fellows, the Rebekahs, the Encampment and the Patriarchs; also a charter member of the Buffaloes in Reading.