Denver-Pueblo-El Paso County CO Archives Biographies.....Friend, Charles E. 1886 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/co/cofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 January 1, 2009, 4:05 pm 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. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF COLORADO ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1918 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/denver/bios/friend197nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cofiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb