San Mateo-San Francisco-Stanislaus County CA Archives Biographies.....Kirkbride, Charles N. 1868 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (1928)

CHARLES N. KIRKBRIDE

   In the forefront of the active and successful lawyers of San Mateo county
stands Charles N. Kirkbride, who maintains offices in San Francisco and San
Mateo and whose record during more than thirty years of professional work in
which he has been engaged has stamped him as a lawyer of marked ability. Mr.
Kirkbride was born in Pueblo, Colorado, on the 15th of November, 1868, and is a
son of Rev. Charles H. and Louise (Holloway) Kirkbride, the former born in Mount
Holly, New Jersey, January 11, 1838, and the latter in South Bend, Indiana. The
father is deceased and is survived by his widow. The Kirkbride family is of
early Scotch origin, the ancestry being traced back to 1300, in which year Sir
Richard de Kirkbride distinguished himself in the battle of Caerleverock, on the
Scotch border. The progenitor of the family in America was Joseph Kirkbride, who
came to this country in 1680 and in the following year entered the employ of
William Penn.

   Charles N. Kirkbride secured his elementary education in the public schools
and entered the College of the Pacific, at San Jose, from which he was graduated
with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1887. He then turned his attention
to the newspaper business, serving for two years as a reporter on the San Jose
Mercury, when, in association with R. H. Jury, he founded the San Mateo Leader,
and was later the publisher of the Times-Gazette at Redwood City. Having decided
to devote his life to the legal profession, he entered the law school of
Northwestern University, at Chicago, and was graduated, with the degree of
Bachelor of Laws, in 1893. In the following year he located in San Mateo and
engaged in the active practice of his profession. He has been associated with
Joseph B. Gordon for many years under the firm name of Kirkbride & Gordon, which
firm specializes in the law of special assessments and municipal corporations.
He has been admitted to practice in the courts of Illinois, California, the
United States district court at San Francisco and the United States supreme
court. During all the years he has enjoyed a good practice, and is regarded as a
reliable and dependable lawyer.

   On May 24, 1919, in Modesto, California, Mr. Kirkbride was united in marriage
to Miss Mabel Goode, who was born and reared in Iowa, and they are the parents
of three children, Bruce C, Harold E. and Elizabeth Louise. In his political
views Mr. Kirkbride has always supported the republican party and has been
interested in public affairs. He served for twenty-eight years as city attorney
of San Mateo and for eighteen years was a member of the board of trustees of the
San Mateo union high school, of which he was one of the founders. Mr. Kirkbride
is a member of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, the San Francisco Sector
of the Association of the Army of the United States, and San Mateo Post, No. 82,
American Legion. He was one of the founders of the League of California
Municipalities, of which he served one year as state president, and is a member
of the board of trustees of the College of the Pacific, which is now located at
Stockton. He maintains professional affiliation with the San Mateo County Bar
Association, the San Francisco Bar Association, the California State Bar
Association and the American Bar Association. His religious connection is with
the First Methodist Episcopal church in San Mateo. In 1911 Mr. Kirkbride became
a member of the California National Guard, in which he became captain of coast
artillery, with which rank he entered the federal service on the entry of the
United States into the World war. He graduated from the Field Artillery School
of Fire, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in the sixth class, in 1918, and at the time of
the Armistice was serving as coast defense ordnance officer. On being discharged
he was recommended for promotion and since 1919 has held the rank of major in
the Officers Reserve Corps.

   Mr. Kirkbride has shown a commendable interest in the material development of
San Mateo and Burlingame and was one of the earliest owners of business
structures on Burlingame avenue, having erected the first store building on that
street, and being still interested in some of the best business blocks on the
avenue. He has lived and labored to worthy ends and as one of the sterling
citizens and representative professional men of his community is eminently
worthy of specific mention in the annals of his county.


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HISTORY
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CHICAGO, ILL. 
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1928


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