Background
Grassham, Charles C. was born on March 20, 1871 in Salem, Kentucky, United States. Son of Montgomery and Martha Elizabeth (Mahan) Grassham.
Grassham, Charles C. was born on March 20, 1871 in Salem, Kentucky, United States. Son of Montgomery and Martha Elizabeth (Mahan) Grassham.
Educated McCully and Kemp School, Madisonville, Kentucky, and National Normal U., Lebanon, O.
Teacher, public schools, 1886-1891. Admitted to Kentucky bar, 1891, later to practice in the United States district cts. of Kentucky and Indiana in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals (6th Circuit), and before Supreme Court of the United States, 1915. Began practice at Smithland, Kentucky, general counsel Ayer & Lord Tie Company, manufacturers and preservers of wood, railway ties and bridge timbers, now The Wood Preserving Corporation, and Koppors Company, since 1894, general manager, 1916-1920.
Commissioned special judge, by governor of Kentucky, and chief justice of Kentucky Court of Appeals. First appellate district judge of Special Court of Appeals of Kentucky to try judges’ pension case, 1940. Vice president and general manager Mineral Ridge Fluorspar Company, Salem, Kentucky, producer of Fluorspar.
Democratic presidential elector, 1st Kentucky District, 1904. Active in Woodrow Wilson campaign for president of the United States, 1912. Served as member Democratic Finance Committee of McCracken.
County, Kentucky; member of advisory board representing local draft board Northern 109, of McCracken County, Kentucky. Member National Reemployment Committee for McCracken County. Was aide de camp, rank of colonel, staff of Governor J. C. W. Beckham.
Delaware from Kentucky to Conservation Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota, to Rivers and Harbors Congress, Washington, District of Columbia.
Member American Bar Association, Kentucky State Bar Association (Vice-President), American Law Institute, American Judicature Society. Clubs: Paducah (Kentucky) Country.
Married Corrie Bush, August 19, 1896. Children: Roscoe Bush (deceased), Pauline Bush.