Charles Warren Magee is one of the best known figures in the printing trade of the Middle West, and as head of the big Magee Printing Company, at Piqua, directs the operations of one of the largest and best-equipped establishments of its kind in the country. He was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, September 19, 1872, a son of Albert and Melvina (Harte) Magee, the former of whom has been identified, for many years, with the Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company. Charles Warren Magee was educated in the public schools and was still a youth when he entered the printing establishment of Jerome Smiley, at Piqua. There he served his apprenticeship and applied himself resolutely and sedulously to becoming a thorough and practical printer, a trade at which he worked at the case and otherwise until 1895. At that time, with his brother Edwin, he founded the printing establishment of Magee Brothers Company, at first a modest establishment which later grew steadily and rapidly under good management and honorable fulfillment of contracts. At the time of the death of Edwin Magee, Charles W. Magee assumed entire control of the enterprise. the subsequent success of which is due to his progressive ideas and a thorough knowledge of the printing art. This is now one of the most efficient printing plants in the Middle West excelling in high art printing and difficult color work and making a specialty of catalog printing for many of the large business concerns throughout the country. During the war period Mr. Magee was a constructive force in aiding the various movements promulgated by the administration at Washington. He is a popular member of the Elks and Eagles, and belongs to the T. M. A., the Piqua Club, the Rotary Club and the Cosmopolitan Club. With his family, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Magee was married in 1902 to Edith, daughter of George Simon of Piqua, and to this union there was born one son, Charles Edward, who is a student at Todd University, Woodstock, Ill. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Magee married Miss Leota Merriam, of Dayton.