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CHARLES I. WADE, bank cashier, Pittsburgh, was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., February 9, 1838. His earliest ancestor in this country was Samuel Wade, who, with his wife Ann, left North Britain in 1653, and settled in New Jersey. His eldest son, Robert, had a son Robert who was engaged in the defense of Oswego in 1756, and was captured by Montcalm. His son Nehemiah had a son Isaac, born in 1763, who married Lois Osborne in 1786. Their youngest son, Isaac E., born in 1807 in New Jersey, married Susan Ann Okely, a native of Baltimore, and living at that time in Harmony, Butler county, Pa. Isaac E. Wade engaged in business in Pittsburgh in 1835, being a member of the firm of McClurg, Wade & Co., one of the earliest iron-founders of that city. He died in Texas at the early age of forty-one, having gone there for his health. Maj. William Wade, of Pittsburgh, was a brother of the deceased. Mrs. Susan Ann Wade, who was born in 1814, resides with her daughter, Lois Amelia, at New Brighton. Charles I. and Isaac E., her sons, are in business in Pittsburgh. The eldest was educated at Irvington Institute, New Jersey, and entered the employ of George E. Arnold, banker, at an early age. For a short time he took charge of a branch banking-house of John T. Hogg at Brownsville, and then engaged with S. Jones & Co., Pittsburgh. On the organization of the Pittsburgh National Bank of Commerce, 1864, he entered the institution as bookkeeper, was promoted to the tellership, and for the past ten years has been its cashier. In 1885 he took up his residence in the mansion built by him at Edgewood. Politically he is a republican.

June 23, 1864, Mr. Wade married Miss Elizabeth Angus Wilkinson, a native of Northumberland county, England. In 1536 John Angus, ancestor of Mrs. Wade, left Scotland and settled in Northumberland county. The line of descent includes many famous writers, such as Robert Hall, John Forster and Dr. Joseph Angus, of Regent’s College, London. Mrs. Wade’s parents, John and Jane (Wailes) Wilkinson, emigrated to America when she was a child. In 1876 she was employed as assistant principal of the Ralston School in Pittsburgh, and afterward became principal. For a few years she was editor of the Educational Voice of that city; was one of the founders, and is president of the Woman’s Club. Since 1871 she has been a regular contributor to the Leader, and frequently writes for the Dispatch, Chronicle and other publications, over the nom de plume of “Bessie Bramble.” Mrs. Wade is the mother of two children, the eldest of whom, Charles Wilkinson, is employed in the business office of the Dispatch. The daughter, Elizabeth Lois, graduated in 1888, at the head of her class, from the normal department of the Pittsburgh High-school.