Background
ESTERLY, Charles J. was born on February 8, 1888 in Reading Pennsylvania. Son of Herman A. and Louisa C. (Zabel) Esterly.
United States representative politician
ESTERLY, Charles J. was born on February 8, 1888 in Reading Pennsylvania. Son of Herman A. and Louisa C. (Zabel) Esterly.
Public Schools, Reading, Pennsylvania.
He was employed with an electric company until 1916 and later in the sales department of a knitting mill. He was also engaged in the breeding of Ayrshire cattle and Berkshire hogs. He served as president and director of a water company, and as a director of a knitting mill and bottle-stopper company.
Esterly was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress.
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1926. He was again elected to the Seventy-first Congress, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1930.
He resumed former business interests, and died in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. Interment in Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading.
He was a member of the board of school directors of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, from 1914 to 1920, and a committeeman of Wyomissing Borough from 1917 to 1921. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1920, and a member of the Republican State committee from 1922 to 1924.
Spouse Beulah S. Deem, 1912.