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Paul Peter Bedesem

Bedesem & Greenwood Generation 3 back

Ben’s great-grandfather on the Bedesem side, a lifelong Philadelphian.

Descent: Benjamin James Weber ← Virginia Anne Kelble ← Mary Dolores Bedesem ← Paul Peter Bedesem

Born
February 4, 1900 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died
January 1981 (per record) · Pennsylvania
Married
May 5, 1924

Photos

Grandpop Bedesem vert.
Grandpop Bedesem vert.
Paul Peter Bedesem.
Paul Peter Bedesem.
Wedding.
Wedding.
From Amazon.
From Amazon.
Dolores and Paul in Canada.
Dolores and Paul in Canada.
Bedesem Wedding BM John Cahill MOH Mildred Bedesem.
Bedesem Wedding BM John Cahill MOH Mildred Bedesem.
Canada Trip.
Canada Trip.
Dolores and Parents at Aunt Mames.
Dolores and Parents at Aunt Mames.
Dolores and Paul in Rowboat.
Dolores and Paul in Rowboat.
Bedesem family in front of Holy Angel's circa 1949.
Bedesem family in front of Holy Angel's circa 1949.
Paul RCHSReunion.
Paul RCHSReunion.
Printers Study Illiteracy.
Printers Study Illiteracy.
Bedesem Family circa 1920.
Bedesem Family circa 1920.

Family

Father
Peter Paul Bedesem
Mother
Mary McCormick
Child in this line
Mary Dolores Bedesem
Spouse
Ida Mary Greenwood

Children

Siblings

In brief

Born February 4, 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married May 5, 1924 and worked as bookkeeper. He died January 1981 (per record) in Pennsylvania.

  • Married Ida on May 5, 1924.

Life story

A Philadelphia Printer

Paul Peter Bedesem was born on February 4, 1900, in Philadelphia, the son of the printer Peter Paul Bedesem and Mary McCormick, and went to work as a teenager as chauffeur and bookkeeper for his father's printing business. By the mid-1920s he was running the Oakdale Composition Company, a linotype typesetting firm at Germantown and Sedgley Avenues, with his father, and rose to lead his trade's local professional body, serving as president of the Philadelphia Typesetting Association in 1932 and speaking at national conventions of the International Trade Composition Association through the 1930s. He married Ida Mary Greenwood on May 5, 1924.

A Business Through Fire and Change

Paul ran Oakdale Composition for over three decades, weathering a 1959 fire that badly damaged the business when it spread from a neighboring lumberyard, and later pivoted the company into the salesbook trade as Oakdale Register Co. He kept a workshop habit his family remembered fondly: he screwed jar lids to the basement ceiling so he could store nuts, bolts, and screws in jars that twisted on and off overhead. He died on January 7, 1981.

At a glance

Work
Bookkeeper, Oakdale Composition Company, Manager, Linotype Printing, Printing Manager, Linotype, Salesbooks
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