LEGGETT, Hon. Charles D. - 1890 Bio (1849-1922)

LEGGETT, VIERS, CUNNINGHAM

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 8/13/2007 at 20:37:19

Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa, Printed 1890 by Lake City Publishing Co., Chicago
Pages 305-306

Hon. Charles D. LEGGETT, Judge of the Second Judicial District of Iowa, was born in Carrolton, Carroll County, Ohio, October 8, 1849, and is a son of Richard H. and Basheba (VIERS) LEGGETT. In 1855, when a child of six years, he came to Fairfield, Iowa, with his parents, and has since made this city his home. He attended the schools of Fairfield in childhood, later was a student in Griswold College, of Davenport, and completed his education in Kenyon College, of Gambier, Ohio, graduating from that institution in 1869, at the head of his class. With a desire to make the legal profession his life work, he entered upon the study of law under the direction of Hon. D. P. Stubbs of Fairfield, and was admitted to the bar June 6, 1872, and soon afterward to practice in the United States circuit and district courts. On the same day he entered upon his professional career in Fairfield as a partner of his former preceptor, D. P. Stubbs, the firm being styled Stubbs & LEGGETT. That connection continued six years and on its dissolution, Judge LEGGETT became the senior member of the law firm of LEGGETT & McKemey of Fairfield, which continued business until the withdrawal of Judge LEGGETT on his election to the bench.

On September 2, 1885, the Judge was united in marriage in Centerville, Ohio, with Miss Beatrice CUNNINGHAM, daughter of P. F. CUNNINGHAM. The lady was born in Centerville and is a graduate of Parsons College, of Fairfield. They have two children, a son and a daughter -- Richard C., born October 8, 1886, and Ruth, March 26, 1889.

The Judge is a Republican in politics but has not been an active politician.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.