Charles C. Hileman and Jennie M. Brinker

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Husband Charles C. Hileman ^{1 2}

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           Born: 22 Jun 1862 - Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 2
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         Father: Peter Heilman (1819-1878) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Remaley (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 12 Oct 1893 5

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Wife Jennie M. Brinker ⁵

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         Father: Solomon Brinker (      -      ) 5
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Children

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1 F Mabel E. Hileman ⁵

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         Spouse: M. M. Beck (      -      ) 5

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2 M Charles C. Hileman, Jr. ⁵

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3 M Lloyd B. Hileman ⁵

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           Born: 13 Jul 1898 5
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4 F Mary N. Hileman ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Charles C. Hileman

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He was born at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and there grew up to manhood, gaining his education in the meantime at the local public schools and supplementing his studies there with a course at Duff's Business College at Pittsburgh. At about the time he had gained his majority, Mr. Hileman came to Greensburg and embarked in that city in the house-furnishing business. He secured rooms in the Stark Block and almost at once met with notable success. His business became one of the largest of it's kind in Westmoreland County and the name of Hileman was well known throughout the entire region. In addition to the house-furnishing business, Mr. Hileman had large business interests elsewhere. It was in the year 1903 that Mr. Hileman, together with a group of business associates, conceived the idea of establishing a new bank in Greensburg. The city already possessed a number of excellent institutions, but Mr. Hileman and his colleagues believed that there was room for another. Accordingly the Merchants' Trust Company of Greensburg was organized and opened its doors for business, November 24, 1903. Mr. Hileman was elected president of the concern, being one of the largest stockholders and very active in the concern's organization. Under his management it grew and prospered. The Merchants' Trust Company began its career with a capital of two hundred thousand dollars and became one of the most important financial institutions in the entire county. The business of the bank gradually demanded a larger and larger share of Mr. Hileman's attention and eventually he sold out his house-furnishing business and devoted himself entirely to the trust company.
The feeling that existed in regard to Mr. Hileman in Greensburg is reflected in the words of the following article:
C. C. Hileman, or "Charlie," as his more intimate friends call him, is a typical American, but not like many of our business men who have made their mark, he started near the middle rung of the ladder, from which to the top the distance is not so great nor the labor so hard as it might have been had he been compelled to begin his way upward at the lower round. Of course, as he had no choice in the matter, he is not accountable for the fact that he was born of parents who were possessed of considerable of this world's goods, and having all the elements required to insure success, we are confident that had his lot been otherwise, he would still have made his way to the top, but, perhaps, it would have required a longer period of time. * * * It might be well to note that the element of "good luck," so called, is an unknown quantity, and that the success of our business men is predicated upon the exercise of good judgment, together with a sufficient amount of enterprise to enable them to act as their judgment suggests. * * Mr. Hileman not only has the happy faculty of making friends and retaining them, but he also inspires those with whom he comes in contact with that confidence that is necessary to a truly successful business career. This confidence was never betrayed and thousands of patrons assert that the word of C. C. Hileman is as good as his bond. We have the honor of the acquaintance with numbers of men who enjoy the same distinction. They are men who are slow to promise, but sure to fulfill, and their fathers were the same before them. When they pass their word to do a thing one can rely upon it being done unless something unforeseen intervenes to make it impossible. Mr. Hileman is one of this class and so far as we have ever learned has strictly lived up to every compact he has made, and expects and justly demands that others do the same.

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General Notes: Wife - Jennie M. Brinker

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from Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 967.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 56.

3 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 353.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 884, 966.

5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 57.