CHARLES H. ZWICK was born in Williamsburg, New York, in 1850.  During this year his parents moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania, where they resided for eight years, and at the expiration of that time came to Hamilton.  Here Mr. Zwick attended school for three years; worked on a farm for two years; afterward accepted a position in Snider's paper mill as a machine boy.  Later, he went to the Owens, Lane & Dyer shops to learn boiler making.  After three weeks' work, holding rivets for the strikers, he  found the work was not congenial and he entered the painting department, where he remained two months.  Finally, he concluded to learn the machinists' trade, working at his occupation for one year, when, meeting with an accident to one of his fingers, he abandoned learning the trade.  He was next employed at Gwynn & Campbell's gun factory, where he worked for one and a half years.  Here he was from time to time advanced until he operated the largest machine in the factory.  During the John Morgan raid, in 1862, he was on watch one night ready to sink the finished guns in the hydraulic upon the approach of the rebel raider.   After the closing of the gun factory Mr. Zwick accepted a clerkship in a large store in Portsmouth, Ohio, where he remained several years.  Subsequently he entered the employment of Fitton Bros., now D. W. Fitton & Co.  In 1873, he engaged in business for himself, continuing until 1892, when he retired.  Mr. Zwick is one of the largest stockholders in the News company.  In September, 1895, he was elected general manager of the plant, which position he now fills.  Politically, he is a pronounced Republican; in religion, a Methodist.  In September, 1871, he was united in marriage with Rosena D. Ruoff.  Mr. Zwick is one of Hamilton's active and foremost business men.  He deserves the success he has achieved.
Source:  Biographical & Historical Sketches - A Narrative of Hamilton and Its Residents from 1792 to 1896 - Publ. 1896 - Page 373