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Clyde Harold Aaron (b. August 06, 1887, d. March 30, 1951)

Clyde Harold Aaron (son of Samuel Henry Aaron and Anna Marie Rose) was born August 06, 1887 in Bethlehem, Pa, and died March 30, 1951 in Bethlehem, Pa. He married Verna Mabel Shive on January 30, 1909 in Bethlehem, Pa, daughter of Milton Shive and Nora Emma Tana Becker.

Notes for Clyde Harold Aaron:
Aaron, Clyde H.

Lineal descendant of one of the early families which came to America with the second boatload of Moravian immigrants. Mr. Aaron was a great-great-great-grandson of Peter Rose, who was born February. 22, 1733, in Hasselberg, Franconia, Germany, and died May 9, 1814, in Bethlehem. Rose enlisted in 1755 as a member of George Washington's own company of Rangers. Washington was then an English officer under General Braddock. Rose was wounded in the defeat at Fort Necessity in defense of Fort Duquesne. He is buried in the old Moravian cemetery in Bethlehem.
Mr. Aaron's great-grandfather was Joseph Mecklin Rose, born June 30, 1795, and died July 18, 1873. He, too, is buried in the Moravian cemetery on Market St., Bethlehem. He was the only soldier from Bethlehem--at that time a Moravian-dominated community and opposed to military service--to serve in the War of 1812. He enlisted Sept. 25, 1812, and was discharged Dec. 24, 1814.
Another of his forebears was Johannes Santie, a captain in the militia during the Revolutionary War, who was born Aug. 8, 1757, and died March 5, 1840. He is buried in the old cemetery at Hecktown.
Born in Bethlehem Aug. 6, 1887, Mr. Aaron was one of two children of Samuel H. and Anna M. nee Rose Aaron. He was married to Verna M., daughter of Milton and Nora Shive, of Bethlehem, and had three children: Marvin W., of Hellertown, and Melvin C. and Anita D., wife of Peter Pietrobon, both of Allentown. There is one grandchild. A sister, Emma S., died about fifteen years ago.
He attended the Bethlehem public schools and was a graduate of the Automatic Communications School at Rahway, N. J. After a time as a messenger boy for the Postal Telegraph Co., he entered the employ of the Western Union Co. as a telegraph operator, advancing to the position of assistant manager of the Bethlehem office.
He resigned this position in June, 1928, to take charge of telephone and telegraph communications for the Bethlehem Steel Co. In 1936, he was made assistant superintendent of the Steel Co. office buildings and communications, and since 1942 he had been superintendent.
Active in community affairs, he was vice-president of the Lincoln Park Home Owners Assn., which he helped establish, and which has been responsible for a number of improvements in that section of Bethlehem.
Fraternally, he was for many years actively identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in which he became a Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment of Pa. and a Grand Representative from Pa., to the Sovereign Grand Lodge, highest and ruling body of the order. As Grand Patriarch, he presided over the annual communication of the Grand Encampment held in Harrisburg in October, 1935.
Locally he was a past Grand and served for twenty and a half years as recording secretary of Keystone Lodge, No. 78, and a past Chief Patriarch of Star Encampment, No. 139. Elected a Grand Representative in 1936, he resigned two years later to devote his complete attention to his duties with the Steel Co. He, however, continued his affiliation with the order and membership on several important committees.
He was a charter member of Canton Bethlehem, No. 13, Patriarchs Militant, and of Lady Beth Rebekah Lodge, No. 149, and held membership in Bethlehem Lodge, No. 283, F. & A. M., and Bethlehem Forest, No. 61, Bethlehem Club, Chamber of Commerce, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, and in numerous social organizations.
Always interested in sports, he served as manager of the original Bethlehem Stars in 1908-09, then one of the best of the amateur baseball teams of the community, and in 1910, was assistant manager of the championship East Ends. He was manager of the Keystone Odd Fellows Lodge baseball team which won a number of championships, attested by trophies still on display in the lodge social rooms.
For more then thirty years, he covered athletic events by telegraph for various news services and during this time opened the press boxes at Lehigh University, Bethlehem High School, and Moravian College. In the same capacity, he represented the Commercial News Bureau, New York City, for which he covered many of the important intercollegiate games, including Princeton, Bucknell, Penn State, Holy Cross, Rutgers and others, as well as the local institutions.

More About Clyde Harold Aaron:
Baptism: November 26, 1888, Rev. Levering, David Santee,Mamie Rose, Sponsors.
Burial: 1951, Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, Pa.

More About Clyde Harold Aaron and Verna Mabel Shive:
Marriage: January 30, 1909, Bethlehem, Pa.

Children of Clyde Harold Aaron and Verna Mabel Shive are:

+Marvin Warren Aaron, b. October 01, 1909, Bethlehem, Pa, d. September 18, 1995, Bethlehem, Pa.
Melvin Clyde Aaron, b. February 14, 1913, Bethlehem, Pa, d. July 01, 1995, Moore Township, Pa.
Anita DeEtta Aaron.

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