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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

HON. CHARLES E. FRIEND.

    Hon. Charles E. Friend, who is representing his district in the state
legislature of Colorado and who is actively engaged in the practice of law in
Denver, was born in Englewood, Kansas, on the 9th of October, 1886, a son of
David M. and Anna (Jacobs) Friend. The father is a native of Pennsylvania and
has devoted his life to blacksmithing. He now makes his home in Wyoming. His
wife was born in Illinois and by their marriage they became the parents of two
sons, the brother of Charles E. Friend being Orville H. Friend, now a resident
of New Mexico.

    Charles E. Friend acquired his early education in the common schools of
Oklahoma, to which state his parents removed in his early boyhood. He afterward
spent a few months as a pupil in the schools of Pueblo, Colorado, and then from
the third to the eighth grade was a pupil in the schools of Colorado Springs. He
subsequently attended high school there as a member of the class of 1909 and in
the same year he entered the Colorado College. In 1911 he matriculated in the
Denver Law School, in which he pursued a three years' course, being graduated
with the LL. B. degree in the class of 1914. He at once entered upon the active
practice of his profession. Along with those qualities indispensable to the
lawyer—a keen, rapid, logical mind plus the business sense and a ready capacity
for hard work—he brought to the starting point of his legal career certain rare
gifts—eloquence of language and a strong personality. An excellent presence, an
earnest, dignified manner, marked strength of character, a thorough grasp of the
law and the ability to accurately apply its principles are factors in his
effectiveness as an advocate. He has always continued in the general practice of
law and his clientage is now large and gratifying.

    On the 1st of January, 1917, Mr. Friend was married to Miss Florence
Bourland, of Decatur, Illinois, a daughter of Mrs. Flora Bourland. Mr. Friend
has membership in Phi Delta Theta, a college fraternity, and in Phi Delta Phi, a
legal fraternity. He is fond of athletics, in which he has been more or less
active. He is also prominent in the work of the Methodist Episcopal church and
Sunday school, doing everything in his power to advance the moral progress of
the community. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he
has been chosen to represent Jefferson county in the state legislature, of which
he is now a member. He is doing important work in this connection, serving as
chairman of the committee on revision and constitution and also as a member of
the committees on temperance, fees and salaries, judiciary, roads and bridges,
and state institutions. He is thus taking active part in much constructive
legislation and is doing everything to uphold and further the progress and
upbuilding of the commonwealth.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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