Christopher Champlin Waite

Birth September 23, 1843 Maumee City, OH
Death February 21, 1896 Columbus, OH
Burial February ??, 1896 Columbus, OH

Christopher Waite married Lillie Pamelia Gutherie on October 22, 1868. She died on November 1, 1905. They had two children; Harry S. born in 1874 and Ellison G. born in 1880. His father, the Honorable Morrison R. Waite, became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1874 under the Ohio Bar.

Christopher Waite was born in Maumee, Ohio, a small town near Toledo, on Sept. 24, 1843. His father was Morison R. Waite, and attorney in Toledo at that time and afterward, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. His mother was a Melia Champlin. His early school training was at a school at Gross Isle; an island in the Detroit River, conducted by a Mr. Hunter. He graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1865? and was one of the charter members of the Theta Psi Fraternity. He was married in 1868 to Lillian Gutherie in Zanesvile, Ohio where he was then superintendent of the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad (now a part of the Pennsylvania). He lived in Zanesvile from about 1870 until 1881 where both of this sons were born, the writer and my brother, Ellison G. Waite, the writer in 1874 and Ellison in 1880.

In 1881 he moved to Cincinnati as superintendent of the Little Miami Railroad (now a part of the Pennsylvania System). We lived there about a year, when father was made Assistant to the President of the Erie Railroad with headquarters in new York City, which position he held until about 1884 when he was made Vice President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad and we moved back to Cincinnati. The C. H. and D. R. R. is now a part of the Baltimore and Ohio.

In 1889 he was made President of the Hocking Valley Railroad with headquarters in Columbus, Ohio which position he held until is death, Feb. 21, 1896. The Hocking Valley Railroad is now a part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. His wife died on November 1, 1905 and my brother on December 3, 1905.