History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 1887
Lose Family - CHARLES LOSE Biography
Charles Lose, a prominent citizen of Williamsport, and county superintendent of public schools, is well known and highly respected.
James Lose, father of Charles Lose, was reared on a farm in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, and came to Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, at the age of eighteen years. He was apprenticed to and learned the shoemaker's trade at Muncy, Pennsylvania, and at the present time is a prosperous merchant in the hoot and shoe line at Montoursville, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania. He married Phoebe Starr, who died in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. James Lose had six children : 1, Kate; 2, Charles, of whom later; 3, Bartley; 4, Sallie; 5, Irvin; and 6, James, deceased.
Charles Lose, second child and eldest. son of James and Phoebe (Starr) Lose, was born in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1856. He received an excellent education, having attended Lafayette College and Bucknell University. lie was an earnest student and began teaching at the early age of seventeen years. He was principal of Montoursville high school for one year, and of the Lycoming County Normal School for four years, being very successful in the many new methods of instruction which he introduced. In 1884 he was appointed county superintendent of public schools by the state superintendent to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of his predecessor, and was elected to the same position in 1887 and 1890. His work as county superintendent of public schools has been eminently satisfactory! Mr. Lose married, June 22, 1882, Rebecca J., eldest daughter of Hon. Henry Johnson of Williamsport. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lose are the parents of four children.
Source: Genealogical and Personal History of Lycoming County, John W. Jordan, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1906.
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