CHARLES
McCOMBS WILKINS, a practicing attorney, residing at Warren,
Ohio, was born in that city Feb. 14, 1865, a son of Robert S.
Wilkins, who was born in Champion township, Trumbull county,
Ohio, in 1847 and is a resident of Warren. His father, John
Wilkins, was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and came to
Trumbull county in 1832, locating as a pioneer in Champion Township.
He was an ardent Republican worker but in early days as a Whig.
He was a life long Presbyterian in church faith. His father
came from Ireland to Pittsburg and then on to Ohio prior to 1800,,
and subsequently returned to Pittsburg. Margaret D. Oaks,
mother of Charles M. Wilkins, was born in Northumberland
county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Isaac Oaks. She
came to Trumbull county about 1857 and died aged sixty-three years.
In this family were born two sons and two daughters, all grown to
manhood and womanhood, and three of whom still survive: James G.,
of Warren; Gertrude, Charles M., Mabel, who died when
nineteen years.
Charles McCombs Wilkins is the second child and
son. He was reared and educated at Warren, Ohio, attending the
high school and Lehigh University. He spent a year and a half
in the middle west, being in St. Paul, Minnesota, a part of the time
connected with the St. Paul News. He also engaged in
the electrical construction business and in 1889 began the study of
law, being admitted to the bar in June, 1891, since which time he
has been practicing law at Warren. He was a city solicitor
about four years and in 1902 was elected county prosecuting
attorney, and Nov. 3, 1908, was elected on the Republican ticket
judge of Common Pleas Court, second subdivision, ninth district.
Mr. Wilkins is a Mason and advanced to the
degree of Knight Templar and Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He
also belongs to the Elks, Nov. 295, and Knights of Pythias No. 90,
at Warren. Politically he is a Republican, and during the 1900
national convention he served as a delegate when Roosevelt and
nominated for President. He has been chairman and secretary
and chairman of the county executive committee five years. He
was married June 22, 1907, to Fredena Lewis, daughter of
Thomas Lewis, of Youngstown, Ohio.
~ Page 11 - History of Trumbull Co., Ohio - 1909 |
