GDG- Charles McCurdy Obit

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Charles M. McCurdy

The Gettysburg Compiler

Gettysburg, PA

October 1, 1938

 

            Charles M. McCurdy, 85, retired Bellefonte banker, former
cashier of the Gettysburg National bank and one-time president of the
Gettysburg Water company and the Gettysburg school board, died Monday
evening at 9:30 o¹clock at Bellefonte, according to word received here.

            Mr. McCurdy was born in Adams county November 9, 1852.  He was a
son of the late Robert McCurdy, Esq. And Mary Marshall McCurdy.  He attended
Gettysburg, then Pennsylvania college, where he was a member of the class of
1873.  For a time he was employed in the engineering corps of the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad in Wisconsin and later by the Adams Express
company here.

            On April 30, 1873, he was elected as a teller in the Gettysburg
National bank and remained with that bank until 1889 when he resigned to
accept a position with the Columbia National bank of Washington, D.C.  In
February of the next year he returned to the Gettysburg bank as assistant
cashier and served in that position until l898 when he resigned to accept
the cashiership of the First National bank of Bellefonte.  He was elected
president of the institution in 1909.

            During Mr. McCurdy¹s residence here he served as president of
the Gettysburg school board; headed the Evergreen cemetery association and
was president of the local water company.  He was active in the Adams county
historical society and wrote a history of the battle of Gettysburg.

            He was a member of the Presbyterian church here where he was an
elder and Sunday school superintendent.  Later he transferred his membership
to Bellefonte.

            At Bellefonte he had served as treasurer of the board of trade
of that city.

            Mr. McCurdy was unmarried.  Surviving are two sisters, Miss
Grace McCurdy and Mrs. J. B. Scott, both of Bellefonte.  There are several
nephews and nieces.

            Another sister, Miss Virginia McCurdy, died June 16, 1937 at
Bellefonte and was interred in the Evergreen cemetery. She was one of the
founders of the Gettysburg chapter of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.

            Funeral services for Mr. McCurdy were conducted at Bellefonte on
Wednesday afternoon.  Services were held and interment made in Evergreen
cemetery here Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o¹clock.