Charles PEPPER (1860-1930)
1 Charles Melville PEPPER1,2,3 (1860-1930) [6560]. Born 11 Nov 1860, Morrow Co., OH.2,3,4 Marr Clara E. ROSE 1884.2,5 Died 4 Nov 1930, NY.3,6
From the Washington Post.
1904-09-09 - "Congressional Programme for To-Day. Evening, 8 o'clock - Lecture by Mr. Charles M. Pepper, "The Bolivian Andes."
1905-01-06 - "The promotion of Mr. Rockhill to be Minister to Peking will make a vacancy in the position of Director of the Bureau of American Republics, which pays $5,000 a year. Mr. Charles M. Pepper, the newspaper correspondent, who has been much in Cuba since the Spanish war, and who more recently has traveled extensively in South America, is mentioned for the directorship, although he is not an applicant. Senator Cullom and Speaker Cannon are understood to have spoken in his behalf. Mr. Pepper has many qualifications for the position. He speaks and writes Spanish, which is the language of nearly all the South American republics. He is also more or less familiar with South American people. Only a few months ago he returned from a long trip of observation through several of those countries, made in the interest of the proposed intercontinental railroad. He was one of the delegates from this country to the last congress of the American republics, held at the City of Mexico a couple of years ago. This afforded him additional opportunity for becoming acquainted with prominent men from the far south. Another, whose name has not been made public, has been considered for the appointment, and the outcome is not yet certain.
1905-04-30 - "From Panama to Patagonia - Mr. Charles M. Pepper, ex-commissioner of the Pan-American railroad committee, who will lecture on "The Countries of South America, from Panama to Patagonia," at Carroll Institute Hall on Wednesday evening, May 3, for the benefit of St. Catherine's Home, is well and favorably known in Washington. Added to his eminence as a writer, diplomat, and traveler, Mr. Pepper has a charm of manner, a grasp of affairs, and a consummate knowledge of the physical side of his subject that places the lecture among the notable events of the season. Mr. Pepper's travels have embraced every part of South America. He will relate his experiences on the Pacific Coast, from Panama to Patagonia, a voyage of 6,000 miles. He will describe the countries and their people and the places of historic interest. Mr. Pepper is especially familiar with the story of the Panama Canal so far as he has been one of its champions. he is able to tell about this great project, in which the people of the United States feel a keen interest."
1906-08-12 - "Ex-President Grover Cleveland is an occasional visitor to the Patuxent River fields, a few miles from Washington, where he found excellent marsh bird shooting. Young Charles Pepper, who visited the same locality, said that on one occasion when he occupied the only spare room in the house of a marsh resident, there arrived a large gentleman, fully equipped for shooting, with whom young Pepper was asked to share his accommodations. He readily assented, slept in the same room, and dined at the same table with the stranger, but he did not learn who his distinguished friend was until the second evening after his arrival. Each had returned with a good bag of birds, but the large man had far outclassed Mr. Pepper as a shot, and when seated at the evening meal the host addressed the heavy man in sportsman's attire as "Mr. President." Then it was that Mr. Pepper first realized the he had accommodations with the ex-President of the United States."
1908-01-13 - "Government Report Shows New Field for Products of United States. A report on trade conditions in Colombia by Charles M. Pepper, special agent of the Department of Commerce and Labor, has been issued by the Bureau of Manufactures. The importance of establishing intimate commercial relations with Colombia, the nearest South American neighbor of the United States, is strongly presented."
1910-03-25 - "Minister of Finance Fielding held a long conference with President Taft and Charles M. Pepper, of the bureau of trade relations, at Albany, last Sunday."
1911-10-08 - "Mr. Charles Pepper and Miss Nora Rose Pepper have returned to the city, and taken apartments at the Wyoming, where they will make their future residence."
1911-11-23 - "Mr. Fausto Davila, the new Minister from Honduras, who was presented to the President on Tuesday, was entertained at dinner last night at his apartment in the Wyoming by Mr. Charles M. Pepper, his colleague in the pan-American conference."
1912-01-01 - "Mr. Charles M. Pepper and Miss Pepper will be at home in their apartments at the Wyoming from 4 to 7 o'clock today. Miss Eunice James will assist Miss Pepper."
1912-02-22 - "The Brazilian Ambassador was entertained at dinner Tuesday night by Mr. Charles M. Pepper, at his apartment in the Wyoming."
1912-05-05 - "Representative P. M. Speer of Pennsylvania, was the principle speaker at the celebration of the Pennsylvania Society at the Phythian Hall last night. The other speaker was Charles M. Pepper, of the State Department."
1913-08-30 - "Mr. Charles M. Pepper, of Washington, is at the Wolcott, New York city, for several days."
1914-08-22 - "Mr. Charles M. Pepper is stopping at the Wolcott, New York city for several days."
1915-01-16 - "Officers will be elected today by the board of directors of the Washington Southern Bank. The following directors were elected yesterday: Robert H. Chapman, W. Gordon Crawford, H. B. Denham, Charles M. Pepper, Robert Smith, H. B. Terrett, J. Selwin Talt, A. R. Yeakle, and John Zanier."
1915-11-03 - "The Bolivian Minister, Senor Ignazio Calderon; Mr. Robert P. Skinner, American Consul general at London; Mr. Rudolph Kauffmann and Mr. Beverly Price Evans were entertained at dinner last night by Mr. Charles M. Pepper."
1915-11-14 - "Mr. Charles M. Pepper entertained at dinner Thursday night Assistant Secretary Byron R. Newton, of the Treasury Department; Mr. Thomas Sammons, American consul general at Shanghai; Mr. Wilbur J. Carr, director of the consular service, and Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Price Evans."
1922-05-19 - "Mr. Charles M. Pepper will entertain at a garden tea Friday, May 26, in honor of the Chilean delegates to the Chilean-Peruvian conference. The party will be given at the suburban home of Mr. Pepper's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Price Evans, at Edgemoor, Bethesda, Md. A map with directions to reach the home of Mr. and Mrs. Evans is inclosed with each invitation."
1922-05-27 - "Guests at Garden Tea. The delegates from Chile to the Chilean-Peruvian conference were the guests of honor at a garden tea yesterday afternoon given by Mr. Charles M. Pepper, at the suburban home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Price Evans. Mrs. Evans and Mr. Pepper were assisted in receiving by Mrs. D. C. Crissinger, Mrs. Franklin Adams and Mrs. E. L. Stock."
1924-12-21 - "Mr. Charles M. Pepper, of New York city, has arrived to pass the holidays with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Evans."
Daily Kennebec Journal, Kennebec, ME - 1907-08-23 - "There have been a number of visitors in town this week if one can judge from the register of the Lithgow library, which contains the following names: . . . Norita R. Pepper, Mrs.Charles M. Pepper, Washington, D.C."
Daily Kennebec Journal, Kennebec, ME - 1910-10-21 - "Secretary Knox, Henry M. Hoyt, counsellor of the state department, and Charles M. Pepper, special agent of the department held a conference Thursday with President Taft on Canadian reciprocity. The President is very much interested in the subject and hopes that reciprocity may be brought about at an early date."
The Constitution, Atlanta, GA - 1906-01-08 - "Pepper Pleased with Mexico. Laredo, Tex., January 7. - After an extensive trip to Mexico in which he visited nearly every state in the republic, covering all the ground from Guaymas to Vera Cruz, Charles M. Pepper, foreign trade commissioner of the United States department of commerce and labor, left today for Washington. He expressed himself as entirely satisfied with his trip."
Hawaiian Gazette, Honolulu, HA - 1897-12-14 - "Mr. Charles M. Pepper publishes in the N.Y. Sun a long and carefully written letter on the leper settlement on Molokai. It is not only graphic, but unusually fair, and free from sensational incidents. Moreover, it shows the kind, parental and firm treatment of the unfortunates by the Government. There are many reasons why it should be republished in pamphlet form, and put before those in Washington, who have the determination of the treaty matter. Few correspondents have visited these Islands, who have done their work as well and conscientiously as Mr. Pepper has done his work."
Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise City, ID1901-04-14 - "RACE PROBLEMS. Discussed by American Academy of Political and Social Science. Philadelphia, Pa., April 13. - The annual convention of the American Academy of Political and Social Science came to an end tonight. Today's sessions were devoted to the consideration of the race problems of the south and our newly acquired West Indian possessions. President George T. Winston of the North Carolina College of Agriculture, and Professor W. E. Dubois of the Atlanta university, discussed the negro question from opposite points of view at the afternoon session. Tonight Senator Platt of New York and Charles M. Pepper spoke on the Cuban and Porto Rican phase of the race questions."
Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise City, ID- 1901-05-21 - "CUBAN SENTIMENT. Charles Pepper, the widely known correspondent, sends the New York Commercial Advertiser a very interesting letter from Havana, giving his observations respecting change of sentiment there during the past year. He was in the island for a long time after the occupation and has just returned to make an investigation of present conditions. On the boat there were a number of Cubans. One was a young man whom he met on his previous trip. This man has lived much in the United States because of his connection with the revolution. A year ago he was loud in support of absolute independence and talked patronizingly of what the Americans had done for the island. Now he calls himself an American and insists that the island be annexed. Another passenger was a woman who was violently anti-American a year ago. On this trip she devoted herself to proselyting among other Cuban passengers, insisting that there was no possible salvation for the island but through some kind of union with the United States. In Havana Pepper found many such changes of opinion, and he feels that a revolution in public sentiment is in progress. This indicates that the Cubans can see a thing when it stands before their eyes long enough."
Morning Oregonian, Portland, OR - 1889-10-12 - "Mr. Charles M. Pepper represents the Chicago Tribune in Washington, doing a very large day's work on 365 days in the year, besides directing several assistants. he is a very young man who has been tried in every sort of work by the paper he faithfully serves, and never fails to do all that could be expected of him. The Tribune office is in the Corcoran building, opposite the treasury, a block away from Newspaper row."
The Weekly Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO - 1899-02-01 - "Charles M. Pepper, whose friends in Washington are urging his appointment as the librarian of congress to succeed John Russell Young, was for several years the chief correspondent at the national capitol of the Chicago Tribune. Before the outbreak of the Spanish war he went to Cuba to represent a syndicate of newspapers, and he is now at Havana in the same service. Many of his dispatches and letters have appeared in the Tribune. Mr. Pepper was an alternate delegate-at-large from Illinois to the Republican national convention of 1896."
Stevens Point Journal, Stevens Point, WI - 1898-02-26 - "IT WAS SPANISH TREACHERY - Evidence Accumulating that the Explosion Which Wrecked the Maine Came from the Outside. Washington, D.C., Feb. 24. - Dispatches received from Chas. M. Pepper, its Havana correspondent, by the Washington Evening Star, at noon to-day, says that the divers are developing important results. From an examination of the interior of the Maine they have secured evidence which proves conclusively that the explosion came from underneath the ship. Some of the smaller magazines may have exploded, but the main 10-inch magazine did not. The condition of the interior of the ship shows further evidence of the wreck being due to outside force. The Spaniards will base their theory of an accident on the claim that a fire preceded the explosion."
Trenton Evening Times, Trenton NJ - 1910-03-05- "CANADA AND U.S. TO TALK TARIFF - WASHINGTON. March 5. - The question as to whether there will be a tariff war between the united States and Canada will probably be settled next week. Professor Emery, president of the Tariff Board, and Charles M. Pepper, an expert of the Department of Commerce and Labor, have left for Ottawa. There they will be joined by Consul General Foster, stationed at that city, and the three acting together will constitute a board representing the American government in its negotiations with that of Canada. When the two commissioners left, they were quite hopeful as to the success of their mission."
Indiana Messenger, Indiana, PA - 1903-03-18 - "Secretary Hay appointed Charles M. Pepper special representative of the United States to advance the project for an intercontinental railway."
Daily Review, Decatur, IL - 1900-04-04- "PEPPER DECLINES - Position of Secretary to Philippine Commission - Washington, April 4. - Charles M. Pepper, who was recently proffered the position of secretary to the Philippine commission, has declined the place. At the time the proffer was made Pepper was absent in Porto Rico and no earlier opportunity was afforded for making known his declaration."
The Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY - 1922-05-28 - "The Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge were honor guests at the dinner the Persian minister gave Thursday. There was a ball that night, too, given for the Pro Infanta Pro Patria by the Alliance Francaise. The out-door party of Friday - there seemed to be at least one every day - was the garden fete given by Charles Pepper at the country estate of Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Price Evans in Edgemoor, Md., in compliment to the Chilean delegates to the conference. That evening the Peruvian delegates were given a dinner by the Joseph W. Folks - he was formerly governor of Missouri."
From Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, 1902.
"PEPPER, CHARLES M., journalist, author, was born Nov. 11, 1860, in Ohio. In 1901 he was a delegate to the Pa American congress, He is the author of T-morrow in Cuba."
From the October 21, 1910 Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine.
"Secretary Knox, Henry M. Hoyt, counsellor of the state department, and Charles M./ Pepper, special agent of the department, held a conference Thursday with President Taft on Canadian reciprocity. The President is very much interested in the subject and hopes that reciprocity may be brought about at an early date."
A photograph of Colonel Charles M. Pepper was printed in the Chicago Daily News, May 29, 1916 along with the following caption.
"Republican Convention delegate, Colonel Charles M. Pepper of NY, standing by the Congress Hotel. Pepper was in Chicago for the Republican Convention."
In the Iowa Recorder (Greene, Iowa) there is a mention of his death in a chronology of the 1930's as follows:
"November 4 - Charles M. Pepper, veteran journalist, in New York."
From the Wellsboro Agitator.
November 12, 1930 - "CHARLES MELVILLE PEPPER. Noted as Student of and Writer on Latin-American Affairs. Charles Melville Pepper, 70, writer and for thirteen years Director of the Chile-American Association, died Nov. 4, in New York Hospital.
A war correspondent in Cuba in 1898 and a delegate to the second Pan-American Congress at Mexico City in 1901, Mr. Pepper was a student and a writer of Latin American affairs.
In 1917 he conceived the idea of the Chile-American Association and interested a group of American business concerns with large holdings in Chile. The organization makes surveys of business conditions both in the United States for Chile and in Chile for the United States. It also establishes scholarships here for Chilean students, and does much work of an educational nature. All designed to further amicable relations between the two countries.
Mr. Pepper was born in Morrow county, Ohio. He was at one time Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and later held a similar post on the New York Herald.
Surviving are a daughter, >Mrs. A. Kenney C. Palmer, of New York, and a brother Samuel A. Pepper, of Seattle. Mrs. Pepper was a sister of the late Dr. Frank Rose, of Wellsboro."
The Library of Congress online catalog shows a total of 34 books written by Charles M. Pepper.
Sources
| 1 | "History of Tioga Co., version of 1897". |
| 2 | "1890, 1900 and 1910 Washington, D.C. census.". |
| 3 | "Obituary of Charles Melville Pepper in the Wellsboro Agitator, November 12, 1930". |
| 4 | "Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, 1902". |
| 5 | "Death announcement of Mrs. C.M. Pepper in the Washington Post, February 2, 1911.". |
| 6 | "Iowa Recorder chronology of the 1930's.". |
