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Notes for Charles Roebling TYSON
Charles Roebling Tyson
was born on February 22, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Carroll Sargent and Helen Roebling Tyson. At an early age he was educated at the Philadelphia Episcopal Academy and later attended Princeton University.
In 1935, he began his career with the John A. Roebling's Sons Company. After working within several departments of the company for brief periods, he was elected treasurer and a director of the company in 1936. In 1940, he was entrusted with the all-important position of secretary-treasurer of the John A. Roebling's Sons Company. In 1944, at the age of thirty, he was elected president, holding that an office until 1953, when the company was taken over by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation. He was then elected executive vice-president of the John A. Roebling's Sons Corporation, and a director of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation, positions he held until 1959.
During his tenure as president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co, the company produced four classes of products, including wire rope, strand and cord insulated electric wires and cables, and cold rolled strip, all made in Trenton, and woven wire fabrics, made at Roebling. All these mills were served by the Roebling, N.J plant which supplied steel and copper wires and which was integrated to the extent of making its own steel by purchasing pig iron and scrap which it processed into the above products with $57,250,000 in annual sales, 7153 employees and 4,500,000 square feet in plant space in 1944. When he became president the company had $67,250,000 in annual sales, 4812 employees and 3,700,000 square feet in plant space in 1953.
Mr. Tyson was active in various other enterprises, serving as a director of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania; Budd Company; Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp.; Delaware & Bound Brook Railroad Co.; Electric Storage Battery Co.; First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co.; Otis Elevator Co.; First Trenton National Bank; First National Bank & Trust Company of Roebling; Philadelphia Manufactures Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and the United New Jersey Railroad & Canal Co. He was also a trustee of the Stock Insurance Company of the Green Tree; Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of Philadelphia and of the Mutual Assurance Co. and the Roebling Securities Corp.
Active in numerous civic and community affairs, he was served as chairman of the industrial division of the Trenton Red Feather Campaign Drive; was instrumental in the formation of the Greater Trenton Council, he assisted in the formation of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Delaware Metropolitan Project, Inc. 1951-52 he was chairman of the Mid-East Region for the United Defense Fund Committee for Community Chest inclusion. A trustee of the United Fund of Philadelphia, he was vice-chairman of the 1963 United Fund campaign and was elected to serve as general chairman of the 1964 campaign. He has been a member of the American Management Association; National Industrial Conference Society in North America; the Ivy Club, Princeton, New Jersey; the Philadelphia Club; Pine Valley Golf Club of Clementon, New.Jersey; Sunnybrook Golf Club of Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania; and the Pohqualine Fish and Game Association of McMichaels, Pennsylvania.
Additionally, he was co-editor of "The Director Looks at His Job," the record of a symopsium sponsored jointly by the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, and the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research.
He was married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 12, 1935, to Barbara Fulton.
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