Charles J. Esterly was born in
Reading, Pennsylvania. He was employed with an electric company until 1916 and later in the sales department of a knitting mill. He was also engaged in the breeding of
Ayrshire cattle and
Berkshire hogs. He served as president and director of a water company, and as a director of a knitting mill and bottle-stopper company. He was a member of the board of school directors of
Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, from 1914 to 1920, and a committeeman of Wyomissing Borough from 1917 to 1921. He was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention in 1920, and a member of the Republican State committee from 1922 to 1924.
Congress Esterly was elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-ninth Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1926. He was again elected to the
Seventy-first Congress, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1930.
Later career and death He resumed former business interests, and died in
Wernersville, Pennsylvania. Interment in
Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading. ==Sources==