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Laros, Charles W.

CHARLES W. LAROS, real estate operator and insurance broker, was born in South Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pa., June 3, 1857, the son of William L. and Lydia (Kline) Laros. He was educated in the public schools and the Allentown Business College. When twenty-one years old he learned the milling trade, which he followed as a journeyman for five years in Stockton, N. J. During the year 1883 he traveled through the West, and upon his return was employed in a general store at Macungie, Pa. In 1886 he came to Allentown and engaged in the mercantile business for sixteen years. He then entered the real estate, loan and insurance business with offices at 640 Linden Street, and has taken a conspicuous place among the men of affairs of the community. He is an independent Democrat, and as such served as a member of the city council for ten successive years, four of which he was chairman of the select branch, of which he was a member for eight years. He is a director of the Security Building Association, and a member of the following organizations; Jordan Lodge, No. 673, F. and A.M.; Knights of Friendship; Knights of the Mystic Chain; Maccabees; Modern Woodmen of America; Heptasophs, and the Protective HOme Circle. He belings to Bethany U. E. Church, and has been a trustee since 1908. He is also a director of the Waldheim Park Association. In 1883 Mr. Laros married Emma L., daughter of former Sheriff Wayne Bitting, of Allentown, Pa.