Digitized Service Record
Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
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When Private Charles J. W. Moyer was born on 18 June 1879, in Berlin, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, his father, Peter Erb William Moyer, was 42 and his mother, Elizabeth Harriet Ardagh, was 34. He had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with Catherine Marie Smith. He immigrated to New York, United States in 1922 and lived in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1921 and State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1938, his occupation is listed as printer, courier-express in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States. He died on 20 May 1960, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.
C. J. MOYER
C. J. Moyer, Former C-E Printer, Dies
Charles J. W. Moyer, 80, of 197 Forest Ave., a linotype operator for 53 years, the last 17 years for the Courier-Express before retiring in 1957, died Friday evening in Columbus Hospital.
Mr. Moyer learned the printing trade as a youth in his native Kitchener, Ont., where his father was a newspaper publisher. After his father’s death, he worked as a printer in Kitchener and Hamilton.
He interrupted his work in 1915 to serve for 42 months with the Canadian Army in France. He emerged from World War I with several decorations.
In 1924 he left the Winnipeg, Manitoba, Free Press to join the Buffalo Times composing room. When the Times ceased publication in 1938, he went to The Courier-Express where he remained until his retirement in November, 1957.
Rites Slated Tuesday
A member of the International Typographical Union, Local 9, Mr. Moyer received his 50-year pin in 1954.
Survivors include two sons, Peter W. and George E.; a daughter, Miss Kathleen M. Moyer; a sister, Mrs. Percy Pearce, Kitchener, and three brothers, William A. E., Waterloo, Ont., Herbert A., St. Catharines, and Edward A. E. Moyer, Kitchener.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 Tuesday in the Andrew C. Smith Funeral Home, 2293 Delaware Ave.
Buffalo Courier Express. 22 May 1960. Page 41.
W. F. Knorr
C. J. W. Moyer
. . . to retire
Two Printers To Retire At C-E Tonight
Two veteran Courier-Express composing room employees will retire at the end of their working day tonight. They are Walter F. Knorr of 402 West Ferry St., a make-up man for 47 years, and Charles J. W. Moyer of 197 Forest Ave., a linotype operator.
Knorr, 69, a bachelor, was for many years a local leader in the International Typographical Union, AFL-CIO. He worked for the Buffalo Express for 16 years until it merged with The Courier in 1926. He continued with The Courier-Express.
A native of Buffalo, Knorr attended Schools 36 and 45. In 1918 he was a delegate to the ITU convention in Scranton, Pa., and in 1929 he represented the Local at the convention of the Allied Printing Trades Council.
He was vice-president of the Local and several times served on the executive committee and as chapel chairman.
Moyer, who was 78 last June 18, learned about newspaper work as a youngster in his native Kitchener, Ont., where his father owned a newspaper. His father died while he was still a boy. He later worked as a printer in Kitchener and in Hamilton and for 15 years for the Winnipeg, Manitoba, Free Press.
He served as an infantryman with the Canadian Army in France for 3½ years during World War I. He came to Buffalo 33 years ago and was a linotype operator for the old Buffalo Times for 16 years before joining The Courier-Express 17 years ago. He received a 50-year pin from the ITU three years ago.
Moyer lives with a daughter, Miss Kathleen Moyer. A son, Peter W., also lives at the same address and another son, George Edward Moyer is a Marine in Okinawa.
Buffalo Courier Express. 31 October 1957. Page 29.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 