Background
Forgee, Charles Chambers Le was born on July 7, 1867 in Decatur, Illinois, United States. Son of Jesse and Julia Alizabeth (Smallwood) LeForgee.
Forgee, Charles Chambers Le was born on July 7, 1867 in Decatur, Illinois, United States. Son of Jesse and Julia Alizabeth (Smallwood) LeForgee.
Bachelor of Laws, Union College of Law (Northwestern University) Chicago, 1888.
Practiced at Decatur since 1887. Now member Le Forgee & Samuels. Chief counsel A. East. Staley Manufacturing corporation since 1910.
Chief counsel for trustees of Millikin University and for trustees of Estate of James Millikin.
Chief counsel for Len Small, governor of Illinois, in trial at Waukegan, Illinois, 1921, leading to verdict of not guilty”. Chief counsel for I.C. Railroad Company, at Saint Paul, Minnesota, in litigation involving approximately $3,000,000 in personal injury cases, out of which originated doctrine restraining citizens of one state from going into another state to prosecute suit where the local court had jurisdiction.
Member American and Illinois State Bar Associations, Phi Delta Phi. Clubs: Decatur, Country, Elks (Decatur).
Married Isabel P. Vennigerholz, November 20, 1895. Children: Charles Granville, Isabel Valette (Mistress William Barnes II).