Prominent Attorney in Los Angeles County.
While attempting to cross train tracks at Loraine Avenue, Charles' automobile was struck by a Santa Fe locomotive, traveling 60-70 mph. He was carried on the cow catcher for about a quarter mile down the tracks, before the train was able to stop.
He married Alice Strong in 1880, and Flora Manly in 1888.
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The following information is courtesy of Contributor #46947920:
Mariposa Gazette, May 11, 1912
Accidental Death
While attempting to cross in front of a fast approaching train with an automobile, at Glendora, Los Angeles Co., last Saturday evening, C. H. Converse, a former resident of Mariposa county, was struck by the engine and instantly killed. After being struck his body was carried along the tracks for a quarter of a mile before the train was brought to a standstill.
The funeral was held from his late residence on Thursday, internment being in the Glendora Cemetery.
A sister residing in Kansas and a son at Spokane, Wash., are among those left to mourn.
Besides relatives in this county he has many friends who will regret to hear of his untimely death.
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In June 1880, Charles Henry and his first wife Alice were living as boarders with his uncle, John Converse in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He worked there as a teacher. It was in California that his first son was born in 1883.
By 1885, the Converses returned to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where Charles worked as an attorney at law in South Oakland, downriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock and Valley Township.
Charles and Alice divorced after 1885 and Charles remarried to Flora about 1888. Their first son was born in Avoca, upriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock.
Charles and Flora moved to a town in Pottawattamie called Avon by 1895. Five years later Charles was noted working as a farmer in Center Township, southeast of Oakland, Pottawattomie County. Sometime between 1900 and 1905, the Converses returned to California, this time to Glendora, Los Angeles County.
In Glendora Charles worked as an attorney and practiced general law. He commissioned the two-story Converse Building (built in 1905) on Michigan Avenue (present day 159 North Glendora Avenue) in Glendora to house his law offices upstairs and with several businesses downstairs.
In 1911 when son Lawrence got involved in the Mexican Revolution and taken prisoner by the Mexican Federal forces, Charles helped represent his sons case and pulled some strings to influence President Díaz to release his son and companion.
While attempting to cross train tracks at Loraine Avenue, Charles' automobile was struck by a Santa Fe locomotive, traveling 60-70 mph. He was carried on the cow catcher for about a quarter mile down the tracks, before the train was able to stop.
He married Alice Strong in 1880, and Flora Manly in 1888.
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The following information is courtesy of Contributor #46947920:
Mariposa Gazette, May 11, 1912
Accidental Death
While attempting to cross in front of a fast approaching train with an automobile, at Glendora, Los Angeles Co., last Saturday evening, C. H. Converse, a former resident of Mariposa county, was struck by the engine and instantly killed. After being struck his body was carried along the tracks for a quarter of a mile before the train was brought to a standstill.
The funeral was held from his late residence on Thursday, internment being in the Glendora Cemetery.
A sister residing in Kansas and a son at Spokane, Wash., are among those left to mourn.
Besides relatives in this county he has many friends who will regret to hear of his untimely death.
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In June 1880, Charles Henry and his first wife Alice were living as boarders with his uncle, John Converse in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He worked there as a teacher. It was in California that his first son was born in 1883.
By 1885, the Converses returned to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where Charles worked as an attorney at law in South Oakland, downriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock and Valley Township.
Charles and Alice divorced after 1885 and Charles remarried to Flora about 1888. Their first son was born in Avoca, upriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock.
Charles and Flora moved to a town in Pottawattamie called Avon by 1895. Five years later Charles was noted working as a farmer in Center Township, southeast of Oakland, Pottawattomie County. Sometime between 1900 and 1905, the Converses returned to California, this time to Glendora, Los Angeles County.
In Glendora Charles worked as an attorney and practiced general law. He commissioned the two-story Converse Building (built in 1905) on Michigan Avenue (present day 159 North Glendora Avenue) in Glendora to house his law offices upstairs and with several businesses downstairs.
In 1911 when son Lawrence got involved in the Mexican Revolution and taken prisoner by the Mexican Federal forces, Charles helped represent his sons case and pulled some strings to influence President Díaz to release his son and companion.
Prominent Attorney in Los Angeles County.
While attempting to cross train tracks at Loraine Avenue, Charles' automobile was struck by a Santa Fe locomotive, traveling 60-70 mph. He was carried on the cow catcher for about a quarter mile down the tracks, before the train was able to stop.
He married Alice Strong in 1880, and Flora Manly in 1888.
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The following information is courtesy of Contributor #46947920:
Mariposa Gazette, May 11, 1912
Accidental Death
While attempting to cross in front of a fast approaching train with an automobile, at Glendora, Los Angeles Co., last Saturday evening, C. H. Converse, a former resident of Mariposa county, was struck by the engine and instantly killed. After being struck his body was carried along the tracks for a quarter of a mile before the train was brought to a standstill.
The funeral was held from his late residence on Thursday, internment being in the Glendora Cemetery.
A sister residing in Kansas and a son at Spokane, Wash., are among those left to mourn.
Besides relatives in this county he has many friends who will regret to hear of his untimely death.
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In June 1880, Charles Henry and his first wife Alice were living as boarders with his uncle, John Converse in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He worked there as a teacher. It was in California that his first son was born in 1883.
By 1885, the Converses returned to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where Charles worked as an attorney at law in South Oakland, downriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock and Valley Township.
Charles and Alice divorced after 1885 and Charles remarried to Flora about 1888. Their first son was born in Avoca, upriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock.
Charles and Flora moved to a town in Pottawattamie called Avon by 1895. Five years later Charles was noted working as a farmer in Center Township, southeast of Oakland, Pottawattomie County. Sometime between 1900 and 1905, the Converses returned to California, this time to Glendora, Los Angeles County.
In Glendora Charles worked as an attorney and practiced general law. He commissioned the two-story Converse Building (built in 1905) on Michigan Avenue (present day 159 North Glendora Avenue) in Glendora to house his law offices upstairs and with several businesses downstairs.
In 1911 when son Lawrence got involved in the Mexican Revolution and taken prisoner by the Mexican Federal forces, Charles helped represent his sons case and pulled some strings to influence President Díaz to release his son and companion.
While attempting to cross train tracks at Loraine Avenue, Charles' automobile was struck by a Santa Fe locomotive, traveling 60-70 mph. He was carried on the cow catcher for about a quarter mile down the tracks, before the train was able to stop.
He married Alice Strong in 1880, and Flora Manly in 1888.
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The following information is courtesy of Contributor #46947920:
Mariposa Gazette, May 11, 1912
Accidental Death
While attempting to cross in front of a fast approaching train with an automobile, at Glendora, Los Angeles Co., last Saturday evening, C. H. Converse, a former resident of Mariposa county, was struck by the engine and instantly killed. After being struck his body was carried along the tracks for a quarter of a mile before the train was brought to a standstill.
The funeral was held from his late residence on Thursday, internment being in the Glendora Cemetery.
A sister residing in Kansas and a son at Spokane, Wash., are among those left to mourn.
Besides relatives in this county he has many friends who will regret to hear of his untimely death.
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In June 1880, Charles Henry and his first wife Alice were living as boarders with his uncle, John Converse in Coulterville, Mariposa County, California. He worked there as a teacher. It was in California that his first son was born in 1883.
By 1885, the Converses returned to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, where Charles worked as an attorney at law in South Oakland, downriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock and Valley Township.
Charles and Alice divorced after 1885 and Charles remarried to Flora about 1888. Their first son was born in Avoca, upriver along the West Nishnabotna from Hancock.
Charles and Flora moved to a town in Pottawattamie called Avon by 1895. Five years later Charles was noted working as a farmer in Center Township, southeast of Oakland, Pottawattomie County. Sometime between 1900 and 1905, the Converses returned to California, this time to Glendora, Los Angeles County.
In Glendora Charles worked as an attorney and practiced general law. He commissioned the two-story Converse Building (built in 1905) on Michigan Avenue (present day 159 North Glendora Avenue) in Glendora to house his law offices upstairs and with several businesses downstairs.
In 1911 when son Lawrence got involved in the Mexican Revolution and taken prisoner by the Mexican Federal forces, Charles helped represent his sons case and pulled some strings to influence President Díaz to release his son and companion.
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