Charles W. Dille
The part taken by Charles W. Dille in the affairs of Cleveland has been that of an able and conscientious lawyer, whose affiliations have always been straightforward and honorable and who for a large degree has represented the interests of the "common people." His practice in the handling of negligence cases is one of the largest enjoyed by any individual attorney at Cleveland.
Mr. Dille, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1869, represents one of the oldest families of this part of the state, founded the year before Ohio was admitted to the Union. His great-great-grandfather migrated from the south side of the Ohio River to Cuyahoga County in 1797, only a year or two after the first settlement had been made at Cleveland. The grandfather of Charles W. Dille was Eri M. Dille, who became noted as one of the leading stockmen of Northern Ohio. W. W. Dille, father of the Cleveland attorney, is a native of Cuyahoga County and was formerly a successful farmer, but has lived retired since 1896. He married Miss Mina T. Gilbert, who was born in New York and in both lines was a representative of New England stock.
Charles W. Dille grew up on his father's farm in the suburbs of Cleveland. After leaving the public schools he entered the railway train service and was a popular and active railroad man for a number of years. He finally determined to study law, and in the spring of 1895 entered the Ohio Northern University at Ada and afterwards the law department of the Ohio State University at Columbus. The latter part of his four years college course was taken in the University of Denver in Colorado. Mr. Dille was admitted to the bar at Columbus in the spring of 1900, and has since been in the continuous practice of law at Cleveland. Since 1905 he has given much of his time to the law of negligence and general reform legislation. His successful handling of such cases against corporations has brought him a practice all over the state of Ohio and neighboring states and he has established a large clientele even as far east as Buffalo.
Through his early experience as a railroad man Mr. Dille knows and understands the viewpoint of the laboring man, had a long affiliation with labor organizations through his membership in the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and was frequently delegated with responsibility in connection with legislation for the protection of labor. He is a member in good standing of the Ohio State Bar Association, and is a republican, though not a strong partisan. At the present time he is head of the law firm of Dille & Rosenberg, with offices in The Arcade.
In October, 1901, at Cleveland, Mr. Dille married Miss Nettie Luster. Her father, Samuel Luster, was one of the early settlers of Cuyahoga County. Mr. and Mrs. Dille have three daughters, Helen, Elizabeth, and Dorothy.
From Cleveland - Special Limited Edition, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York, 1918 v.1