Charles Penrose Biddle was born in Carlisle, Pa. July 21, 1847, the eldest son of Edward M. Biddle, treasurer of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company. He entered Yale at the beginning of the Junior year, having spent most of the two preceeding years at Dicksinson College, in Carlisle.
After graducation he studied law in his native town until March, 1867, and subsequently in Erie, Pa., where he began practice in August, 1868. In 1875 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., and entered into a partnership with the firm of Lochren, McNair & Gilfillan. While thus associated he attended to the Supreme Court business of the firm, and was regarded as one of the most thorough and scholarly attorneys before that court. In 1887 he removed to Omaha, Nebraska, and after a few months formed a partnership with Messrs. J. A. Cavanagh and H. C. Atwell, with the former of whom he had been well acquainted for several years. He soon came to be esteemed there as a lawyer of excellent character and superior learning, and exceptionally well versed in the equity branch of his profession, besides having a wide knowledge of general literature.
After about a weeks's illness from la grippe, he died suddenly from Paralysis of the heart, March 25, 1890, in his 43rd year. He was never married.
Source: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University - June 1890
After graducation he studied law in his native town until March, 1867, and subsequently in Erie, Pa., where he began practice in August, 1868. In 1875 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., and entered into a partnership with the firm of Lochren, McNair & Gilfillan. While thus associated he attended to the Supreme Court business of the firm, and was regarded as one of the most thorough and scholarly attorneys before that court. In 1887 he removed to Omaha, Nebraska, and after a few months formed a partnership with Messrs. J. A. Cavanagh and H. C. Atwell, with the former of whom he had been well acquainted for several years. He soon came to be esteemed there as a lawyer of excellent character and superior learning, and exceptionally well versed in the equity branch of his profession, besides having a wide knowledge of general literature.
After about a weeks's illness from la grippe, he died suddenly from Paralysis of the heart, March 25, 1890, in his 43rd year. He was never married.
Source: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University - June 1890
Charles Penrose Biddle was born in Carlisle, Pa. July 21, 1847, the eldest son of Edward M. Biddle, treasurer of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company. He entered Yale at the beginning of the Junior year, having spent most of the two preceeding years at Dicksinson College, in Carlisle.
After graducation he studied law in his native town until March, 1867, and subsequently in Erie, Pa., where he began practice in August, 1868. In 1875 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., and entered into a partnership with the firm of Lochren, McNair & Gilfillan. While thus associated he attended to the Supreme Court business of the firm, and was regarded as one of the most thorough and scholarly attorneys before that court. In 1887 he removed to Omaha, Nebraska, and after a few months formed a partnership with Messrs. J. A. Cavanagh and H. C. Atwell, with the former of whom he had been well acquainted for several years. He soon came to be esteemed there as a lawyer of excellent character and superior learning, and exceptionally well versed in the equity branch of his profession, besides having a wide knowledge of general literature.
After about a weeks's illness from la grippe, he died suddenly from Paralysis of the heart, March 25, 1890, in his 43rd year. He was never married.
Source: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University - June 1890
After graducation he studied law in his native town until March, 1867, and subsequently in Erie, Pa., where he began practice in August, 1868. In 1875 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., and entered into a partnership with the firm of Lochren, McNair & Gilfillan. While thus associated he attended to the Supreme Court business of the firm, and was regarded as one of the most thorough and scholarly attorneys before that court. In 1887 he removed to Omaha, Nebraska, and after a few months formed a partnership with Messrs. J. A. Cavanagh and H. C. Atwell, with the former of whom he had been well acquainted for several years. He soon came to be esteemed there as a lawyer of excellent character and superior learning, and exceptionally well versed in the equity branch of his profession, besides having a wide knowledge of general literature.
After about a weeks's illness from la grippe, he died suddenly from Paralysis of the heart, March 25, 1890, in his 43rd year. He was never married.
Source: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University - June 1890
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