Bio of WALES, Charles E. (b.1865), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 771-772
CHARLES E. WALES
Charles E. Wales, realty owner of Minneapolis, is a native and life-long
resident of this city, where he is widely known as a representative and
successful business man and as a progressive and public-spirited citizen. He is
connected with many busi­ness corporations, clubs and social organizations,
making him a potent force in the life of Minneapolis, nor is his influence
unfelt in the cities of St. Paul, Duluth, Chicago and Pittsburgh, where he is
also widely known.
Charles E. Wales is a son of the revered Minneapolis pioneer, William W. Wales,
and in early life he became identified with the coal trade as an employe in a
business conducted by the late James J. Hill of St. Paul and John A. Armstrong
of Minneapolis. Subsequently he succeeded to the Minneapolis branch of the
business and organized the Pioneer Fuel Company. He soon extended its operations
far beyond the boundaries of the state and still later he merged the Pioneer
Fuel Company's business with the organization of numerous Pennsylvania coal
mines under the name of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. He was made vice president
of the new organization with headquarters in Chicago and for some years devoted
his time and energy principally to organization work, in securing northwestern
outlets for the company's products. During the same period he exercised general
supervision over the home company's subsidiary sales organizations throughout
the Northwest, including the Pittsburgh Coal Company of Wisconsin with
headquarters in Minneapolis. With the completion of this organization work Mr.
Wales resigned as an officer of the company in order that he might devote more
time to organization work in the development and sale of various properties, in
which he had from time to time become interested and in which are included
terminal and water front properties at Duluth, Superior and other ports on the
Great Lakes. During the last few years Mr. Wales has effected sales and leases
of such properties to many coal companies and to various railroad companies. He
likewise owns valuable realty in Minneapolis, including the Transportation
building. He main­tains his principal office at his beautiful country home known
as Waleswood on the Minnesota river, about six miles south of the city limits of
Minneapolis.
Mr. Wales married a daughter of the late John M. Smythe, an honored pioneer and
well known merchant of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Wales have two sons: Martin Smythe
and Robert Elliott. Charles Raymond Wales, an elder son by an earlier marriage,
is a member of the Wales-Campbell Company of Minneapolis, engineers and
contractors He and his younger brothers represent in Minneapolis the third
generation of the Wales family in this city. They have all been builders of the
city's greatness and progress. Charles E. Wales is a man of notable capability
with strong executive powers and as an organizer and promoter he has contributed
in notable measure to the development of the Northwest. His business connections
reach out into almost every section of the country and he has indeed become a
dynamic force in the world of commerce.