Raymond, Charles W
lawyer, jurist, orator, was born in Dubuque, Iowa.
His father, William M. Raymond, was captain of company C, fifty-second Indiana volunteer infantry, and lost his life in the battle of Nashville. Charles W. Raymond was educated at the Grand Prairie seminary of Onarga, Ill., and at the Wabash college. He attained prominence at the Illinois bar at Watseka; and was vice-president of the State Bar association when Lyman Trumbull was president. In 1895-96 he was president of the Republican league of Illinois; and was chairman of the Illinois delegation of the National Republican league convention at Cleveland in 1895. In 1894 he was elected a judge; and in 1897 was tendered the position of United States civil service commissioner. He has delivered numerous public addresses throughout the United States on current subjects.