Charles Dudley Pieper was born on 3 October 1870 at his parents' home in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. He was the son of Joseph Manley Pieper, 1841-1918, a son of German immigrants, and his wife, Catharine R. Finnegan, 1842–1914, a native of Ulster, Northern Ireland, who had immigrated to the United States as a child in 1847. Charles was the 5th of their 9 children. He studied medicine and became a Dentist in Boston in the 1890s.
Charley, as he was known to friends, wanted more from life than the bourgeois comforts provided by a successful Boston dental practice. As early as 1912 he basically retired and obtained a US Passport, leaving Boston by trans-Atlantic steamer on a trip across Europe. Later, possibly during WW I, he and a close friend, Boston playright Robert K. Snow, left Boston together, moving to southern California, where they settled in Santa Barbara. In September 1922 the two men, both with independent means, left the USA for an extended 19-month "grand tour" of Europe and North Africa, not returnig until 1924.
They spent the rest of their lives together in and around Santa Barbara, California, where Charley passed away on 1 Feb. 1935. His friend and partner, Robert Keith Snow, rejoined him on 12 July 1936. They share a common grave plot and bronze identification marker at the Santa Barbara Cemetery.
Contributor: A Southern Snow
Charley, as he was known to friends, wanted more from life than the bourgeois comforts provided by a successful Boston dental practice. As early as 1912 he basically retired and obtained a US Passport, leaving Boston by trans-Atlantic steamer on a trip across Europe. Later, possibly during WW I, he and a close friend, Boston playright Robert K. Snow, left Boston together, moving to southern California, where they settled in Santa Barbara. In September 1922 the two men, both with independent means, left the USA for an extended 19-month "grand tour" of Europe and North Africa, not returnig until 1924.
They spent the rest of their lives together in and around Santa Barbara, California, where Charley passed away on 1 Feb. 1935. His friend and partner, Robert Keith Snow, rejoined him on 12 July 1936. They share a common grave plot and bronze identification marker at the Santa Barbara Cemetery.
Contributor: A Southern Snow
Charles Dudley Pieper was born on 3 October 1870 at his parents' home in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. He was the son of Joseph Manley Pieper, 1841-1918, a son of German immigrants, and his wife, Catharine R. Finnegan, 1842–1914, a native of Ulster, Northern Ireland, who had immigrated to the United States as a child in 1847. Charles was the 5th of their 9 children. He studied medicine and became a Dentist in Boston in the 1890s.
Charley, as he was known to friends, wanted more from life than the bourgeois comforts provided by a successful Boston dental practice. As early as 1912 he basically retired and obtained a US Passport, leaving Boston by trans-Atlantic steamer on a trip across Europe. Later, possibly during WW I, he and a close friend, Boston playright Robert K. Snow, left Boston together, moving to southern California, where they settled in Santa Barbara. In September 1922 the two men, both with independent means, left the USA for an extended 19-month "grand tour" of Europe and North Africa, not returnig until 1924.
They spent the rest of their lives together in and around Santa Barbara, California, where Charley passed away on 1 Feb. 1935. His friend and partner, Robert Keith Snow, rejoined him on 12 July 1936. They share a common grave plot and bronze identification marker at the Santa Barbara Cemetery.
Contributor: A Southern Snow
Charley, as he was known to friends, wanted more from life than the bourgeois comforts provided by a successful Boston dental practice. As early as 1912 he basically retired and obtained a US Passport, leaving Boston by trans-Atlantic steamer on a trip across Europe. Later, possibly during WW I, he and a close friend, Boston playright Robert K. Snow, left Boston together, moving to southern California, where they settled in Santa Barbara. In September 1922 the two men, both with independent means, left the USA for an extended 19-month "grand tour" of Europe and North Africa, not returnig until 1924.
They spent the rest of their lives together in and around Santa Barbara, California, where Charley passed away on 1 Feb. 1935. His friend and partner, Robert Keith Snow, rejoined him on 12 July 1936. They share a common grave plot and bronze identification marker at the Santa Barbara Cemetery.
Contributor: A Southern Snow
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