Charles Edward Temple, attorney at law and dealer in municipal bonds, at Grand Rapids, was born in White Pigeon, Mich., July 13, 1858, a son of Rev. Charles M. and Harriet F. (Waite) Temple. He attended school in his native town until 1869, when the family removed to Sturgis, where he further attended school until 1872, then came to Grand Rapids, and here graduated from the high schoolin 1878. He next passed two years in the classical department of the Michigan university at Ann Arbor, preparatory to his entering the law department in 1880, and from the latter he graduated in 1882, with the degree of LL. B. He then went to Toledo, Ohio, and for three years was in the employ of Lenderson & Lang, lawyers and abstract men, and director in the Dow street railroad, and was next engaged in the development of the gas and oil district of the Buckeye state until 1888, when he was admitted to the Ohio bar. In the spring of the same year he disposed of his gas and oil interests, returned to Grand Rapids, and entered the law office of Edwin F. Sweet and remained with him two years, since which time he has been in the municipal bond business and general law practice alone, making an admirable success of his undertaking.

Mr. Temple was united in marriage in Grand Rapids, June 20, 1888, with Miss Belle Scribner, a native of this city and a daughter of James and Eliza (Slocum) Scribner, old and prominent residents. This union has been blessed with a daughter and a son--Frances Scribner and William Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Temple are members of St. Mark’s Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Temple was one of the earliest communicants, and in politics Mr. Temple is a stanch republican, although he has never frittered away his time in seeking public office. He is a member of the Phi Delta Phi society, a law fraternity, and as a citizen stands high in the regard of the public, by whom he is recognized as a gentleman of advanced thought and unusual legal and business abilities.