Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....West, Charles N. August 31 1844 - Unknown
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Author: Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga.
Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga.
Published by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1895
Page 311

Charles N. West, of Savannah, Ga., was born in Georgia Aug. 31, 1844.  His 
family were always identified with the coast of Georgia, Charles West, his 
great-great-grandfather, having removed from Charleston, S.C., to Liberty 
County, Ga., in 1754.  His own father was Dr. Charles W. West of Savannah and 
his mother, Eliza Whitehead, the daughter of Judge John Whitehead of Burke 
County.  He entered Princeton College in 1859, but was called home after the 
election of Lincoln to the presidency.  He then went to the University of 
Georgia for a few months until the opening of the war.  He entered the Savannah 
volunteer guards as a private in 1861, and served with them until 1863, when he 
was detailed for the signal service, and remained in that service until the end 
of the war.  He then taught school and studied law.  He was admitted at 
Columbia county superior court in 1867.  He commenced the practice of law in 
Savannah in 1869, and shortly afterward married Mary C. Cheves, daughter of the 
late Langdon Cheves of South Carolina.  He received the honorary degree of 
Master of Arts from Princeton College in 1874.  He moved to Baltimore in the 
spring of 1877, where he practiced law, and became a member of the leading firm 
of Marshall, Fisher & West.  His health requiring a milder climate he returned 
to Savannah, Ga., in 1883.  He is the author of the sketches of Sidney Lanier 
and William Harris Crawford.  He is a zealous and efficient member of the 
Georgia Historical society and is a successful and competent attorney well 
fitted and endowed as a historian and jurist.



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