Charles S. Whiting Biography

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	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Page 491

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CHARLES S. WHITING, who resides at De Smet, Kingsbury county, is considered to 
be one of the best practicing lawyers in the eastern part of South Dakota.  He 
is a finely-educated man, an eloquent speaker, and as an attorney displays a 
remarkable knowledge of the intricacies and labyrinths surrounding "the law's 
delay."  Mr. Whiting was born in Olmsted county, Minnesota, May 25, 1863.  His 
parents, Ammi N. and Maryette (Rice) Whiting, were pioneers of Wisconsin, where 
they were married in, 1854.  They soon after settled in Olmsted county, where 
Mr. Whiting still resides.  Mrs. Whiting died there in 1863.  C. S. Whiting 
secured his education in the common schools of Olmsted  county, being graduated 
from the high school at Rochester in 1879.  He then taught school for five 
years, and in 1887 entered the law department of the University of Michigan, 
probably the most famous training place in the United States for legal 
neophytes.  The year following he became a law student at the University of 
Minnesota, at Minneapolis, from which he was graduated with the class of '89. 
Almost the first train westward, after this event, carried him to De Smet.  He 
set up an office, hung out the regulation shingle so often described by our 
humorists, and then, following out the strict dramatic sequence, sat down and 
waited for the clients.  He was, however, studying very hard meanwhile, and when 
he did at last get a case or two, made his influence felt against his luckless 
opponent.  He soon made his reputation as a clever and able lawyer, and business 
soon began to find him out.  He has to-day the largest and most lucrative 
practice in Kingsbury county.

Mr. Whiting is a Republican.  In 1892 he was elected state's attorney of 
Kingsbury county, and returned to that office in 1894.  Three years later, soon 
after his term as state's attorney expired, he was the Republican candidate for 
judge of the Third judicial circuit, but was defeated by a fusion of the 
Democratic and Populist parties. Mr. Whiting is a member of the I. O. O. F. and 
the Modern Woodmen of America.

On November 4, 1891, Mr. Whiting and Miss Mary G. Mitchell were married at 
Dover, Minnesota. Mrs. Whiting was born in Olmsted county, Minnesota, and is a 
daughter of William Mitchell.  Mrs. Whiting died October 29, 1897, leaving one 
child, Ruth, who was born August 29, 1892.