Background
Lane, Charles Elmaar was born on August 11, 1878 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. Son of William Wallace and Ellen (Flaherty) Lane.
Lane, Charles Elmaar was born on August 11, 1878 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States. Son of William Wallace and Ellen (Flaherty) Lane.
Graduate Cheyenne High School. Bachelor of Laws, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, 1911, Master of Laws and Master of Patent Law, 1912. Special courses in international law and political economy, George Washington University and Wyoming University.
Taught country school. Circulator and reporter, Wyoming Department, Denver Rocky News, also Denver Republican. Contributor to Cheyenne newspaper.
Accountant, assistant manager, Cheyenne Light Company.
Secretary to the United States Senator Francis East. Warren of Wyoming, 1905-1912: assistant clerk, United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs, also Committee on Appropriations. Admitted to bar, District of Columbia, 1912, bar of Wyoming, 1912.
Bar of Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1928. Practiced law at Cheyenne since 1912.
Prosecuting attorney, Laramie County, Wyoming, 1918-1921.
Member Wyoming House Republican, 1927-1929. Member of its commission on property, commission on criminal law. Member Hoover committee which drafted uniform mechanic lien acting
Member Commercial Law League of America since 1925.
Member executive committee National Committee for Protection of Child, Family and Church. Chairman Wyoming Liberty bond and stamp campaign.
World War I. Member local council Boy Scouts of America, committeeman Troop 104, and chairman of Sea Scout Ship Coyote” Northern 2, Cheyenne.
National council; member Long’s Park council, 1963. Member American Bar Association (member American citizenship committee, 1929-1930.
Member general council, 1932-1936. Member of council of section on real property, probate and trust law since 1937, vice chairman and director Real Property Division, 1940, assembly delegate, 1950), American Judicature Society, Wyoming State, Laramie County bar associations, American Law Institute (life.
Mason (Knight of the Order of the Thistle), Elk.; Clubs: Cheyenne, Golf, Chamber of Commerce.
Writer on Federal Constitution.
Married Alma Margaret Brockstedt, June 20, 1917. Children: Mary Ellen, Robert B. (petty officer, United States Navy, South Pacific), William Henry (sergeant.