This Week in Chester History

In 1991, the Observer-Tribune interviewed longtime resident Charles Breitweiser who served in WWII in the Pacific Theater. He flew a total of 23 missions over three years as gunner with the 20th Air Force, 500th Bomb Group before he was discharged, then moved to Chester in January of 1946. Breitweiser ran a variety of businesses after the war: a vegetable stand, a construction business, and the Quimby Company which owned the old train station. At the time of the article’s publication, he was a school bus driver for Chester Township.

Family member John Breitweiser graciously donated countless photographs to our Local History department for their safe keeping and exhibition to the public. Below is the home of Charles and Virginia Breitweiser, originally the Chester Train Station.