Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CROWNHART, CHARLES H. April 16, 1863 - 
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MEMBERS OF SUPREME COURT

CHARLES H. CROWNHART was born in Fond du Lac county,
Wisconsin, April 16, 1863. His father, a Civil War veteran,
returned from the war in 1866, and shortly thereafter moved
his family in a prairie schooner to Pierce county, where Mr.
Crownhart grew to manhood on a farm. He attended common school
and the River Falls Normal. He taught school for a few years,
studied law and graduated from the University of Wisconsin law
school in 1889. Practiced law in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, a year
and a half, then in 1891 moved to Superior, and later formed
the partnership of Crownhart, Owen and Foley. Mr. Owen is now
a Supreme Court Justice of Wisconsin, and Mr. Foley is a
circuit judge of the Eleventh judicial district.

Mr. Crownhart was district attorney for Douglas county 1901-
1905; State Normal School Agent 1905-1912; Chairman Industrial
Commission 1911-1915; Revisor of Statutes 1920-1922; appointed
by Governor Blaine a justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin
April 4, 1922, and elected for term of 10 years in April,
1923, without opposition. He moved to Madison in 1911, where
he now resides. He is married and has two sons, George, an
executive secretary, and Charles, in high school.

Additional Comments:
The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 -
640. 

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