Charles Eugene Titman (1857 - 1911)

Born 19 Aug 1857 in Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States

Husband of Elizabeth Frances (Torbert) Titman — married about 1880 (to 1911) in Pennsylvania, United States

Died 25 Jul 1911 at age 53 in Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Charles was born in 1857 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of cattle dealer Issachar M Titman and Mary Margaret Kinney.

In 1880, aged 22, he was still living with his parents in Shenandoah, Shuylkill County and working as a butcher.^[1]

In 1881 he married Elizabeth Frances Torbert, daughter of former state senator William L Torbert^[2] and his first wife Hester (Esther?) Maria Blatchford. They had two daughters and a son:

• Lillian Earle Titman 1883–1956 m. 1905 Edgar Lee Green, 5 children
• Mary Margaret Titman 1886–1912 d. unmarried a year after her father
• Charles Emory Titman 1889–1928 m. 1916 Anna Smiley Corkey, div. 1919 no children

He managed and built up the Penn Reducting Company, a waste management company using innovative technology that had the contract for garbage removal across the whole of Philadelphia. At the time of his death it was worth millions.^[3]

In 1910 the family (bar married Lillian) were living comfortably in Philadelphia. Charles's job was President in the industry of Reducting.^[4]

He passed away in 1911^[5] and is buried in the family plot at Westminster Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His son inherited, and some might say squandered his fortune. His widow passed away in 1922.

Find A Grave: Memorial #189007800

Sources

1. ↑ 1880 census
2. ↑ https://www.library.pasen.gov/people/member-biography?ID=5015&body=S
3. ↑ Unclear whether he sold it prior to his death or his son kept on nominal ownership.
4. ↑ 1910 census
5. ↑ "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915"

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