Charles R. Blyth

Background

Blyth, Charles R. was born on July 31, 1883 in Ashtabula. Ohio. Son of John S. and Frances G. (Reed) Blyth.

Education

Student Roxbury Latin School, 1899-1901. B South., Amherst, 1905.

Career

With American Carolina & Foundry Company, 1906-1907. Georgia H. Burr & Company, 1907-1909, Louis Sloss & Company, 1910-1914. Blyth. Witter & Company (now Blyth & Company, Incorporated.).

San Francisco. since 1914, president, since 1941.

Director Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Rayonier, Incorporated., Foster & Kleiser Company Vice president San Francisco Opera Association, San Francisco Symphony Association Trustee De Young Museum Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto.

Chairman Liberty Loan drives, Northern California World War I. Chairman San Francisco chapter American Red Cross, 1944-1946. Chairman Victory Fund Committee San Francisco District.

President San Francisco War Chest, 1942, 1943.

Trustee, Stanford Research Institute.

Achievements

• Charles R. Blyth has been listed as a noteworthy banker by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Clubs: Recess, River, The Links, Amherst (New York).

Connections

Married Marjorie Ramsay, October 9, 1915 (died March 27, 1923). Married second, Katherine Ramsay, June 2, 1925. Children: Marjorie Blyth Bell, Barbara Blyth Coghlan.

Father:

John South. Blyth

Mother:

Frances G. (Reed) Blyth

Spouse:

Katherine Ramsay

Spouse:

Marjorie Ramsay

child:

Marjorie Blyth Bell Blyth

child:

Barbara Blyth Coghlan Blyth