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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 209-210 with photo

	CHARLES FREDERICK SCHNEE is an Akron attorney specializing in corporation, 
income tax and other commercial branches of the law, eschewing altogether 
the criminal cases and jury trials of the general lawyer. His has been an 
altogether successful career in the law.
	His father and grandfather both lived in Summit County, Ohio, but Charles 
Frederick was born while his parents occupied a farm near Kalamazoo, 
Michigan, on June 18, 1887. His grandfather was a tanner in Pennsylvania, 
and, coming to Ohio in 1864, established a home at Millheim, near Akron, 
where he followed farming until his death in 1872. Charles M. Schnee was 
born in Pennsylvania, in 1856, and was about eight years old when his 
parents moved to Ohio. In 1882, however, he left a farm in Springfield 
Township of Summit county to move to Michigan. He farmed near Kalamazoo 
until 1900, since which year his home has been in Akron, where he is now 
employed in the shipping department of the Akron Banking company. He is a 
democrat, and an active member of the Trinity Lutheran Church. His wife, 
Sylvia Long, was born in 1858, and died in 1918.
	Third in a family of four children, Charles F. Schnee was about thirteen 
when his parents established their home in Akron. His early schooling was 
acquired in Michigan, and was continued in the Akron High School and in 
Buchtel College, now Akron University, where he showed skill in baseball 
and was a member of the Delta Sigma Epsilon fraternity. Illness terminated 
his college course in 1907, and his law studies were pursued in the offices 
of Grant, Seiber and Mather. He was admitted to practice in the State of 
Ohio in December, 1910, and to the United States Supreme Court in 1916. In 
1912 he became a partner of Charles R. Grant in the firm of Grant & Schnee, 
dissolved when the senior member was elected judge of the Court of Appeals 
for the Eighth District on February 9, 1913. His associate for two years 
following was Ford L. Carpenter and from 1915 to January 1, 1922, he was 
head of the firm of Schnee, Grimm and Thomas. For two years he has 
continued an individual practice. He is at this time (1924) president of 
the Akron Law Library Association.
	He has been entrusted with the legal details in the organization and 
administration of a number of corporations, including the Guaranty Mortgage 
Company, of which he is secretary and chairman of the executive committee; 
Federal Oil & Gas Company, of which he is secretary and general counsel; 
acting also in a similar capacity for the five subsidiaries of the Federal 
Oil; Long Lake Estates Improvement Company, president; Akron Equipment 
Company, secretary; Dime Savings Bank, attorney and stockholder; 
Pennsylvania Crude Oil Company of Pittsburgh, general counsel; and is 
secretary of the Pine Ridge Oil Company, producers in the Kentucky field.
	Mr. Schnee is a member of the bar organizations, and during the World war 
was Government appeal agent for Summit County and chairman of District No. 
1 of the Akron Legal Advisory Board. He is a republican, member of the City 
club, plays an enthusiastic game of golf at the Portage Country Club, and 
is also a member of Fairlawn Gun Club, being an expert with Adoniram Lodge 
No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons; Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch 
Masons; Akron Commandery No. 25, Knights Templar; Lake Erie Consistory of 
the Scottish Rite, and has held chairs in various Masonic bodies.
	Mr. Schnee married, at Akron in November, 1911, Miss Ellen Mitchell, a 
native of Cincinnati, but reared in Akron, where her father, John J. 
Mitchell, was for many years a cafe proprietor. Mrs. Schnee is active in 
all the societies of St. Vincent's Catholic Church. The four children born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Schnee were John Charles, who died at the age of six years, 
Frederick, William Joseph and Louise.

	

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