[p. 696] attorney-at-law, at New Castle, is a member of the Lawrence County Bar Association, and has the right of practice in the Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania, and the District and Circuit Courts of the United States. He was born in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, in 1870, and is a son of Homer Fenton.
Homer Fenton was born in Lawrence County, in 1846, and is a son of Abner Fenton, who came to this section probably in 1835. Homer Fenton has been identified with the lumber trade for many years.
C. W. Fenton was educated in the New Castle schools, the Slippery Rock State Normal School and Hiram College, graduating from the latter in 1892. Mr. Fenton then engaged in teaching for six years, in the meanwhile giving much time to the study of law, and in 1898 he was graduated from the law department of the Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio. About this time he enlisted for service in the Spanish-American War, entering Company E, Fifteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, of which he was corporal, and served for one year. Immediately after his return home he was admitted to the bar, and associated himself in practice with Charles H. Young, the present district attorney. Mr. Fenton has advanced rapidly in his profession, and has taken part in a large part of the important litigation which has occupied the different courts in the last decade. He has given considerable attention to politics also, and is a well rounded American citizen.
In 1900 Mr. Fenton was married to Miss Anna R. Fife, of Allegheny City, Pa. They are members of the First Christian Church, of New Castle, of which Mr. Fenton has been a trustee for some years. He belongs to the Odd Fellows and to the Temple club.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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