Charles W. Beldin, wagon maker and county commissioner, Sinnemahoning, was born in Tioga county, N. Y., November 12, 1841, a son of Lindsey and Jane Beldin, who settled in Wharton, Potter Co, Penn., in the early part of the "fifties," and later in Sinnemahoning, Cameron county, where the father died in 1873. Charles W. Beldin was reared in his native county and in Potter county, Penn. In 1872 he came to Sinnemahoning, where he learned the wagon maker's trade, and where he has since resided. In October, 1864, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Ninety-ninth P. V. I.; was taken prisoner at Appomattox Court House, but was paroled the same day, and was honorably discharged June 26, 1865. In 1866 he married Martha, daughter of Morris and Eliza Walker, of Tioga county, N. Y., and they have two sons: Edward and Adelbert. Mr. Beldin is a member of the F. & A.M. and the G. A. R. In politics he is a Republican, and has been constable and collector of Grove township nine years in succession; he was also elected one of the commissioners of Cameron county in the fall of 1887.

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