Charles Vernon Eddy was born in Winchester on September 13, 1877. He was the son of Florence Alberta “Bertie” Snapp Eddy and James Clarkson Eddy, a millwright who died of tuberculosis in 1888. He and his brother established a printing business in 1892 while students at the Shenandoah Valley Academy, from which Eddy graduated in 1896. He married Katharine Graham Kurtz on March 22, 1905. They had three sons, one of whom died in infancy.
The Eddy Press, as the business was later named, expanded to become one of the state’s largest printing operations and included an office in New York, but financial difficulties led to a declaration of bankruptcy in 1904. The company was later sold. Eddy remained with the Eddy Press until about 1907, when he moved with his family to Philadelphia and became an assistant manager of a printing house there.
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