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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 243-244



HON. CHARLES E. FRIEND.

	Hon. Charles E. Friend, who is representing his district in the 
state legislature of Colorado and who is actively engaged in the 
practice of law in Denver, was born in Englewood, Kansas, on the 9th of 
October, 1886, a son of David M. and Anna (Jacobs) Friend. The father 
is a native of Pennsylvania and has devoted his life to blacksmithing. 
He now makes his home in Wyoming. His wife was born in Illinois and by 
their marriage they became the parents of two sons, the brother of 
Charles E. Friend being Orville H. Friend, now a resident of New 
Mexico.

	Charles E. Friend acquired his early education in the common 
schools of Oklahoma, to which state his parents removed in his early 
boyhood. He afterward spent a few months as a pupil in the schools of 
Pueblo, Colorado, and then from the third to the eighth grade was a 
pupil in the schools of Colorado Springs. He subsequently attended high 
school there as a member of the class of 1909 and in the same year he 
entered the Colorado College. In 1911 he matriculated in the Denver Law 
School, in which he pursued a three years' course, being graduated with 
the LL. B. degree in the class of 1914. He at once entered upon the 
active practice of his profession. Along with those qualities 
indispensable to the lawyer-a keen, rapid, logical mind plus the 
business sense and a ready capacity for hard work-he brought to the 
starting point of his legal career certain rare gifts-eloquence of 
language and a strong personality. An excellent presence, an earnest, 
dignified manner, marked strength of character, a thorough grasp of the 
law and the ability to accurately apply its principles are factors in 
his effectiveness as an advocate. He has always continued in the 
general practice of law and his clientage is now large and gratifying.

	On the 1st of January, 1917, Mr. Friend was married to Miss 
Florence Bourland, of Decatur, Illinois, a daughter of Mrs. Flora 
Bourland. Mr. Friend has membership in Phi Delta Theta, a college 
fraternity, and in Phi Delta Phi, a legal fraternity. He is fond of 
athletics, in which he has been more or less active. He is also 
prominent in the work of the Methodist Episcopal church and Sunday 
school, doing everything in his power to advance the moral progress of 
the community. His political allegiance is given to the democratic 
party and he has been chosen to represent Jefferson county in the state 
legislature, of which he is now a member. He is doing important work in 
this connection, serving as chairman of the committee on revision and 
constitution and also as a member of the committees on temperance, fees 
and salaries, judiciary, roads and bridges, and state institutions. He 
is thus taking active part in much constructive legislation and is 
doing everything to uphold and further the progress and upbuilding of 
the commonwealth.