A. J. Shartle

Alvin J. Shartle was born Dec 5, 1867 at Hamburg, Penn. He attended public schools in Hamburg and then prepared for religious work with young people. In 1893 he moved to Reading, Penn. He worked in a number of businesses but persisted in church work. He was an active member and elder of St. Stephen's Reformed Church. He was especially active as a Sunday school teacher and superintendent and with the Christian Endeavor society, which was a young people's society. He went on to be elected General Secretary of the Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union.

Dianne Shapiro from Historical and Biographic Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania compiled by Morton L. Montgomery (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1909)