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CHARLES FREDERICK WELLS, white-lead manufacturer, Pittsburgh, was born at Zweiflingen, near. Oehringen, Wurtemburg, Germany, Sept. 24, 1835, and is the only child of Frederick and Rosa (Weiss) Wells. His father, who had charge of a school at Zweiflingen, came to Pittsburgh in 1852, and here taught Lutheran parochial schools till his death, which occurred in 1861, when he was fifty-five years of age; his wife died three months previously. The father of Frederick Wells was also an educated man, and had charge of the parks and gardens of the prince of Hohenlohe. Charles F. attended Duff’s Commercial College, and taught two years in that institution after completing the course. For some years he kept books for Graff, Bennett & Co. and B. L. Fahnestock & Co. In 1867 he became a partner in the Beymer-Bauman White Lead company, and in 1881 organized the Pennsylvania White Lead company, of which he is president and his eldest son secretary. He is a director of the Allemania Insurance company, Third National Bank, Dollar Savings Bank and Pittsburgh Bank for Savings. He is a K. T., has always been a republican, and his first vote was cast for Lincoln. Mr. Wells attends Grace Reformed Church. In 1860 he married Mary Ellen Fulton, of Pittsburgh birth and Scotch-Irish ancestry, and their children are Charles F., Jr., Clara, John A., Alice, Cora, Reuben and Bertha.