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Charles E. Armin

(1853- )
New York & Wisconsin


Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 184
(Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890)

Charles E. Armin was born at St. Lawrence County, New York on December 27, 1853. "Working at the drug business when a boy, Charles afterward entered the state normal school at Potsdam, N.Y. In 1878 he moved out west, and five years later commenced the practice of law . . . in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The poems of Mr. Armin have appeared from time to time in the press of his adopted state . . . ."

[Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 184 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890)][Armin served, for two years, as district attorney of Waukesha county. See, Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century 50 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898)]

See: "Charles E. Armin," in Ellis Baker Usher, Wisconsin: Its Story and Biography 1813-19131697-1699 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1914)(vol.6) [online text]