Charles' mother Luella wanted a girl after having several boys. She had a name all picked out--Margaret. Charles arrived instead, and Luella bestowed just a middle initial "M" in place of her chosen girl's name. Charles eventually made up his own middle name, Marsdon, once that lives on with me as his grandson and namesake. Charles was a World War I veteran (he was a Sergeant in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, part of the 5th HMORS, Heavy Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop, which repaired large cannon). Per notes from my fathers conversations with his wife Antoinette, much of his mothers (Luella) care fell on Charles, who his mother seems to have dominated, preventing him, via claims of her own needs, from attending Dental College (I suspect this was during the period when her husband was institutionalized sometime around WW I). In the 1920 Census he and his new wife Antoinette "Toni" are living at 215 Woodlawn Terrace in Waterbury, CT. At that time his employment is listed as "meat market" as he worked in the butcher shop of his uncle Henry (Luella's brother). This was H. B. Sanderson's Meat Market, at the corner of North Willow & West Main in Waterbury, CT. His daughter's birth certificate lists him as a "clerk" in the Meat Market. I remember him as an exacting carver of the Thanksgiving turkey in his old age. Charles worked for the American Brass Company as a salesman/sales manager for most of his career.
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