This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BERTSCH, WILMARTH Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACE/4162 Message Board Post: Charles Harley Bertsch, treasurer of Barclay, Ayers & Bertsch Company, is one of the younger generation of business men and has had a career of steady advancement. He was born at Grand Rapids, July 27, 1879, a son of John Bertsch, and received his education in the public schools of the city, following which he gained his first business experience in the employ of the Michigan Leather Company, with which he remained for nine years. He then transferred his services to the Cappon & Bertsch Leather Company, at Holland, Mich., but after two years there returned to Grand Rapids to assist in the organization and to assume the duties of his present position. Mr. Bertsch is essentially one of the men of action of Grand Rapids and one who is interested in many of the city's activities. He is a member of the board of directors of the Grand Rapids Building and Loan Association, belongs to the Association of Commerce and the Builders' and Traders' Exchange, and for six years was secretar! y of the Young Men's Christian Association. He has been on the official board of stewards of the First Methodist Episcopal Church for twelve years, and in his political views he is a Republican. In Masonry he has taken the York and Scottish Rite degrees and is a Shriner, and his social connections include membership in the O-Wash-ta-nong Club and the Highlands Country Club. He was married Nov. 28, 1912, to Lucile A., daughter of Oscar B. Wilmarth, of Grand Rapids, and they have three children: Marion Louise, Ruth Adelaide, and John Wilmarth.