from The Republican (Danville, Indiana)--issue of Thursday, March 10, 1898--page 1, column 5:
Republican candidates for county offices:
was born in Kentucky in 1870. When he was three years of age his parents moved to Clayton. At the age of sixteen he graduated from the Clayton school. At the age of seventeen he was granted a license to teach and he began teaching in the fall of '88 at the Faught school house near New Winchester, his summers being spent in DePauw university, as was the year '90-'91. In October 1891 he became assistant principal of the Clayton school and thence he went to Coatesville where he taught one year and then he was principal of the Avon school three years, resigning to take up the study of medicine. He will complete his course two weeks from today and intends to locate at Avon to practice. His father was a Union soldier and a Republican until he espoused the Prohibition cause. Charles was raised under Prohibition influences and on account of his father's relation to the party Charles' name was place on the Prohibition ticket in 1892 before he had cast his first vote. He asked that it be taken off and early in his voting life left the party and worked and voted for Republican candidates and principles. Last fall he made several speeches for protection and sound money.