- CHARLES S. VINAL, city engineer of Appleton, Wisconsin, who has been engaged in civil engineering since his fourteenth year, was born in Iowa, September 10, 1858, a son of Henry L. and Maria W. (Reed) Vinal, natives of Massachusetts, who went to Iowa at an early date and later returned to Massachusetts, removing in 1900 to Virginia, where Mr. Vinal died in 1907. Mrs. Vinal, who is still living there, has been the mother of three daughters and two sons, all of whom are still living. The Vinal family is one of the old New England ones, tracing its ancestry back to 1635, when Ann Vinal and her sons, Charles and Stephen, came to the American Colonies. Charles H. Vinal received his early education in Massachusetts, and was given the advantages of attendance at high school and Bryant & Stratton's Business College, at which latter place he studied civil engineering, his maternal grandfather having followed that profession. He came to Wisconsin in 1879, and for eleven years was locating engineer with the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad. In 1885 he settled in Appleton, and during 1890 was elected city engineer of that city, a position he has held for eleven years since that time, the intervening years being spent in a successful contracting business. He is now serving as city engineer. In 1882 Mr. Vinal was united in marriage with Ida M. Fernald, of Massachusetts, daughter of B. N. and Henrietta (Simpson) Fernald, a New England family, and to this union there has been born one daughter, Velma H., a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and a successful teacher. Mr. Vinal is a member of the Wisconsin Engineering Society, Odd Fellows and Encampment, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks, in all of which he is extremely popular.
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- CHARLES H. VINAL, John Goodland received a telegram Sunday morning announcing the death from apoplexy of Charles H. Vinal, formerly city engineer of Appleton, which occurred unexpectedly at his home at West Allis Saturday afternoon. The funeral will be held at West Allis at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Prior to his removal to West Allis eight years ago, the decedent had been a resident of Appleton for many He was born in Virginia 62 years ago and did much of the surveying for the old Lake Shore road at the time the line was extended from Manitowoc to New London. After the road was purchased by the Northwestern Railway Company, he located in Appleton and served several terms as city engineer. Besides his widow Mr. Vinal is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Maechtle, wife of Dr. E. W. Maechtle of West Allis. He was the only survivor of the city officials who were in office in 1893.
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