HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
p. 1226.  [Franklin County]

CHARLES HUBERT VREELAND--A native son of Kentucky, Mr. Vreeland has
honored the state through his services in public offices of distinctive
trust, including that of state commissioner of agriculture, as well as
through his productive energies along normal lines of business enterprise.
He is now president and general manager of the Frankfort Printing Company
which publishes the Frankfort Daily News, in the capital city of his native
state, and is one of the well known citizens of Kentucky, where he is held
in unqualified confidence and esteem and where he has been accorded special
tributes of commendation for the excellent work which he did in connection
with the development and improvement of the agricultural resources of the
state during his incumbency of the official position previously mentioned.
Charles Hubert Vreeland was born in Washington county, Kentucky, on the
4th of September, 1873, and is a son of Charles Elmer and Ida Belle (Quint)
Vreeland, both of whom were likewise born and reared in Kentucky.  When he
was a child Mr. Vreeland's parents moved from Kentucky to Dallas, Texas,
but eight years later they returned to Kentucky and located in Glasgow,
Barren county, where they remained two years at the expiration of which
time they established their home in Louisville.  There the father was
engaged in the real estate business for a number of years.  He was a
valiant soldier of the Confederacy in the war between the states, in which
he served under the command of General John Morgan.  He passed the closing
years of his life in Louisville and his wife is now living at Frankfort.
     To the public schools of Texas and Kentucky Charles Hubert Vreeland is
indebted for his early education discipline, the greater portion of which
was received in the city of Louisville.  As a youth he identified himself
with the newspaper business, in connection with which he familiarized
himself with the intricacies of the "art preservative of all arts" and
finally he became editor of the Russellville Ledger, at Russellville, Logan
county.  A short time afterward, however, he assumed a position on the
reportorial staff of the celebrated Louisville Courier Journal, with which
well known paper he continued to be thus identified for a period of four
years.  He was then appointed to the position of assistant commissioner of
agriculture of the state, under Ion B. Nall, and during the four years of
his incumbency of this position he was also secretary of the State Board
of Election Commissioners.  In 1903 he was elected state commissioner
of agriculture and he retained the office for one term of four years,
having assumed his executive duties in January, 1904.  He mad a most
admirable record in his administration of this important office as he
as he effected splendid improvements in his department.  He organized
county farmers' institutes and also organized the State Farmers' Institute,
which was afterward made an adjunct to the department by legislative
enactment.  He did much other work that tended greatly to forward
agricultural interests in the state.  As an appreciation of his effective
services in this office the Kentucky State Farmers' Institute presented
him, in 1907, with a fine gold watch.  Through his influence while
commissioner of agricultural many important changes were made in the
management of the state fair, bringing its annual exhibitions up to a high
standard and thus insuring their cumulative popularity.  Mr. Vreeland
served as president of the State Fair Association during the time he was
commissioner of agriculture.  Upon his retirement from this office in 1907,
there came distinctive marks of popular appreciation and confidence in that
he was made, without opposition, the Democratic nominee for the office of
secretary of state, but owing to normal political exigencies, which
compassed the defeat of the party ticket in the state that year, he was not
elected.  In January, 1908, Mr. Vreeland purchased the business and plant
of George A. Lewis Publishing Company, of Frankfort, and reorganized the
business under the title Frankfort Printing Company, which is duly
incorporated under the laws of the state and of which he is president and
manager.  The company does a general printing and publishing business,
being one of the state printers.  The company also publishes the Frankfort
Daily News, which is an afternoon issue and which is one of the leading
exponents of the Democratic party in the state, as well as a valiant
promoter of local interests.  Mr. Vreeland has ever given an unqualified
alliegance [sic] to the Democratic party and he is identified with various
social and fraternal organizations of a representative character.  He was a
member of the Kentucky Committee at the Jamestown Exposition.
     In the year 1900 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Vreeland to Miss
Hallie Elise Rodman, of Frankfort, and they have four children, namely:
Charles Elmer, Elizabeth Hunt, Virginia Russell and Russell Rodman Vreeland.

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