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have come and gone in that interval, this is the second occasion when by unanimous and spontaneous consent a testimonial of this character has been paid to a retiring judge. Certainly the highest encomium of a judge's success in the administration of his exalted and powerful office is not the plaudits of the multitude but the respect and standing accorded him by the lawyers. Men at times who are elevated from the ranks to a position of power and influence degenerate into tyrants, but in Judge Bronaugh's case no man living and having experience with him would think of such an aspersion to his judicial career. He not only loved a square deal but was himself a square dealer." On resuming the private practice of law Judge Bronaugh con- centrated his efforts and attention upon the law of real property and his opinions are accepted as authority upon questions of this character throughout Portland. He has himself become well known by reason of his operations in real estate and is now the vice president and general counsel of the Title & Trust Company of Portland. He has served for many years as local counsel for the states of Oregon and Washington for the Alliance Trust Company, Limited, of Dundee, Scotland, also for the Investors Mortgage & Security Company, Limited, and for the Western & Hawaiian Investment Company, both of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was likewise at one time a director of the Portland Trust Company of Oregon but resigned that position when he took his place upon the bench.
On the 14th of June, 1888, in San Jose, California, Mr. Bronaugh wedded Miss Grace L. Huggins, a daughter of Asa G. Huggins and a former classmate of her husband in their college days. They have become the parents of four children: Elizabeth L., the eldest, is the wife of Joseph E. Hall of Klamath county, Oregon, and they have three children: Gordon B., Earl Hall and Dorothy; Lewis J., the second of the family, born in 1891, married Frances Bragg; Earl C., born in 1894, is a graduate of the University of Oregon of the class of 1917; Polly Grace is the wife of Orin Cheney. Mr. and Mrs. Bronaugh are members of the Fourth Presbyterian church of Portland and he has been an active representative of the Young Men's Christian Association, serving as one of its board of directors. He was for many years superintendent of the Fourth Presbyterian Sunday school, has been a member of the church board of trustees and in various ways has taken most active and helpful part in the church work. That he is interested in Portland's development and progress is seen in his association with the Commercial Club. He belongs also to the Arlington Club and is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi and the Phi Delta Phi, becoming, while a university student, one of the organizers of Chase Chapter of the latter fraternity. Along strictly profes- sional lines he is connected with the Multnomah County Bar Association and the State Bar Association. His political endorsement is given to the republican party. He served as a member of the city council from the seventh ward in 1900 and was made chairman of the committee on streets, health and police and a member of the judiciary committee. In 1901 he received legislative appointment as a member of the charter board and was chairman of the committee on the executive department and a member of the committee on the legislative department and was again appointed on the charter commission in 1912. Fraternally he is a Mason of high rank and in 1919 was elected grand master for the state of Oregon. He bas taken the degrees of both the York and Scottish Rites and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. The honors that have come to him have not been sought but have been bestowed as a recognition of his capability, his efficiency and his high character. Life is to him purposeful and he has been a forceful and resourceful factor in accomplising projects which have looked to the betterment of the individual, the uplift of the community and the advancement of the common wealth.
WILLIAM R. TAYLOR.
William R. Taylor, a prominent and successful citizen of Athena, Umatilla county, was appointed acting sheriff upon the death of his brother, Sheriff Tillman Taylor, and at the following election was a nominee of the democratic party to continue in the office, but was not elected.
William R. Taylor is a native of Umatilla county, his birth having occurred two miles south of Athena. He is a son of David and Sarah Ann (Gerking) Taylor. He received his preliminary education in the schools of that vicinity and later took a busi- ness course at the Portland Business College. After putting his textbooks aside he con-
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tinued to farm the original home place, to which he has added from time to time, now being in possession of a large amount of land, all of which he has brought to a high state of cultivation. He is now residing in Athena, where he has purchased a fine home and he takes an active interest in all movements pertaining to the welfare of the town and county.
On the 3d of December, 1890, occurred the marriage of Mr. Taylor and Miss Nellie Leeper, a daughter of Gilbert and Mary (Daft) Leeper, and a native of Iowa. To this union two children were born: Edna, now Mrs. D. A. Clore, and Lucylle, who is at home.
Mr. Taylor has always been a stanch supporter of the democratic party, in the interests of which he has taken an active part. Fraternally he is identified with the Elks and the Woodmen of the World. Along agricultural lines Mr. Taylor has en- joyed a substantial amount of success and he has a host of friends in the community where he has lived his entire life, who appreciate his true personal worth and many sterling traits of character.
ALLEN CARL TUCKER, D. D. S.
Dr. Allen Carl Tucker, one of the prominent residents and successful practicing dentists of St. Helens, is of the ninth generation from James Skiff, an Englishman who sought religious freedom in America in 1665. The line of descent is traced through Nathan Skiff (second generation); Benjamin (third generation); Benjamin (fourth generation) ; Mary (fifth generation), who married Samuel Skiff, a distant cousin; their son Gibbs (sixth generation), whose daughter Marilla (seventh generation) married Norman Tucker; and their son, George F. Tucker (eighth generation), who married Alice E. Sperry, and they were the father and mother of Allen C. Tucker. On the Tucker side the first American record dates from 1638, but the various genera- tions have not been followed up so closely by the younger members of the family. The grandfather of Allen C. Tucker was born in Cherryville, New York, and was one of the pioneers of Michigan, where he is recorded as a school teacher in 1844. His son, Dr. George F. Tucker, was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1854, came to Oregon in 1874 and entered the dental office of his uncle in Salem.
Allen Carl . Tucker was born in McMinnville, Oregon, in December, 1880. He pursued his preliminary education in the grade schools of Yamhill county, later attending the State Normal School at Monmouth, the Portland University and the Northwestern University at Chicago, Illinois, where he was graduated in 1902 with the degree of D. D. S. For twelve years he was associated with his father in the prac- tice of dentistry in Portland, remaining there until 1914, when he established himself in St. Helens, where he has continuously followed his profession.
Dr. Tucker was married in 1902 to Miss Barbara M. Raab, a native of Portland, and they are the parents of four children: Carl J., Mildred Alice, Richard Allen and Robert Willis. Fraternally Dr. Tucker is an Elk and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is a man much devoted to his profession and to his family and stands high professionally and socially in St. Helens.
CHARLES LINCOLN CONYERS.
Charles Lincoln Conyers, owner of a musical merchandise store in Clatskanie, was born in this city in 1864, the son of Enoch and Hannah (Bryant) Conyers. Enoch Conyers was a native of Kentucky, a state of which his father was a pioneer. He crossed the plains in 1852, and drifting along the coast settled at Clatskanie. Whether it was because he found the country to his liking, or that some of its inhabitants held him there is not known, but he married Hannah Bryant and is still living there at the age of ninety-two years. Enoch Conyers was a sturdy man and did much for his country, having established the first post office in the town and, though a farmer, opened the first store. He held all the minor offices and in 1860 represented Columbia county in the state legislature. Having sold his first store he went into the merchandise business again in 1889 in association with his son, who had grown to manhood.
Charles Lincoln Conyers was educated in the grade schools of his home town
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and in 1889 went into the mercantile business with his father, in which enterprise he remained until 1894. He then took up a ranch, which he operated until 1899 and then sold the ranch property and established a hardware business, which he conducted until 1911, when he sold out and leased his building for a time. In 1913 he established his present musical merchandise store, which he still conducts. Mr. Conyers built a moving picture theater on the lots adjoining his music store and operated it until 1919, when he leased the property and confined his activities to the music store. He handles high grade pianos and other instruments, and a full line of musical merchan- dise, being agent for the Edison phonograph and all accessories, records, etc.
Mr. Conyers has served in every office in the gift of his people, from mayor to, but not including, constable. He is a good roads enthusiast and has done more to further the building of the lower Columbia River Highway than any other man in the community.
On May 21, 1893, Mr. Conyers was married to Miss Lizzie P. Miller, a daughter of W. S. Miller, a well known farmer of Columbia county. Mrs. Conyers has been of great assistance to her husband in all of his undertakings. They have no children. Mrs. Conyers is a member of the Rebekahs and is prominent in social activities in Clatskanie, while Mr. Conyers belongs to the Maccabees and is an Odd Fellow, having held all the offices in the latter organization. During the World war he was exceed- ingly active in every measure that would promote the good of his country and com- munity, and beside his time and money, gave his theater freely for all war meet- ings. Mr. Conyers has five sisters and one brother, they are: Mrs. W. K. Tichenor, Misses Millicent, Hannah, Azalea and Lillian Conyers, and William E. Conyers, all of Clatskanie.
As a large holder of town property, as a business man and a citizen, Mr. Conyers is widely known and held in high regard in Clatskanie and Columbia county.
LENTHAL A. BOLLMAN, M. D.
Dr. Lenthal A. Bollman, a successful physician and surgeon who since 1906 has practiced his profession at Dallas, was born in Postville, Iowa, January 26, 1873, a son of John W. and Martha E. (Mitchell) Bollman, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Michigan. When ten years of age the father accompanied his parents on their removal westward to Iowa, the family settling in Winneshiek county. There the grandfather took up land, which he cleared and developed, continuing active in its cultivation and improvement throughout the remainder of his life. His son, John W. Bollman, also took up the occupation of farming and in 1875 he went to Minnesota, filing on a homestead in Rock county, which he brought to a high state of development, and was active in its cultivation for nine years, or until 1884. In that year he came to Oregon, settling in Lane county, where he purchased land in the vicinity of Elmira, and this he improved and operated for about ten years, when he took up his abode in Elmira, where for about a decade he engaged in gen- eral merchandising. He then sold his store and went to Washington, locating in Seattle, where he continued for six years, after which he purchased a farm near the city, which he engaged in cultivating until the fall of 1920, when he removed to Tacoma and there lives retired in the enjoyment of a well earned rest. The mother also survives and they are highly respected residents of their community.
The son, Lenthal A. Bollman, pursued his education in the district schools of Lane county and in the public and high schools of Eugene, from which he was gradu- ated in 1893. He then engaged in teaching in Lane, Douglas, Crook and Harney coun- ties for six years, on the expiration of which period he entered the State Univer- sity at Eugene, where he pursued a four years' course. Deciding upon a professional career, he entered the medical department of the Willamette University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1906, and he then opened an office in Dallas, where he has since continued in practice. He does everything to perfect himself in his chosen vocation and in 1910 and 1913 he took postgraduate work in New York city, thus adding to his efficiency and skill. He carefully diagnoses his cases, and as he thoroughly understands the scientific as well as the practical phases of the profes- sion, he has been most successful in checking the ravages of disease and is now accorded a large practice. He also has farming interests in Polk county and is the owner of a thirty-five acre prune orchard, which he is cultivating with good success.
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In March, 1907, Dr. Bollman was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Jester and they have become the parents of two children: J. Paul, who was born May 16, 1911; and Lenthal A., born in March, 1915. In his political views the Doctor is a republican, and his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias lodge at Dallas and also is a Mason, holding membership in Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Portland. His professional connections are with the Medical Societies of Polk, Marion and Yamhill counties, the Oregon State Medical Soclety and the American Medical Association and he is serving as examiner for disabled soldiers in connection with the United States public health service. Upon the organization of the state militia in 1908 Dr. Bollman became first lieutenant and in 1909 he was promoted to the rank of captain of Company H. He is a loyal and patriotic citizen and during the war with Germany was active in the promotion of the various local drives. He utilizes every possible opportunity to promote his knowledge and increase his efficiency, and his colleagues and contemporaries speak of him in terms of high regard, recognizing in him an able physician and surgeon.
HARRY PRICE PALMER.
Harry Price Palmer, who passed away in 1919 in Portland, was prominently con- nected with the development of the Irvington district and for a number of years was successfully engaged in the real estate and promotion business in this city. He was a native of the golden west, his birth having occurred in Salinas, California, in 1877, his parents being Willis W. and Nettie L. (Price) Palmer, who were natives of Maine and on removing to the Pacific coast settled in California. They came to Oregon in 1878 and the father accepted a position in the office of the Oregonian at Portland.
Harry Price Palmer acquired his education in the schools of Portland and Spokane, for he was only a year old when brought by his parents to the Rose city. He became president of the Stock Exchange of Spokane and there resided for about fourteen years. His steady progress led to the attainment of success as the years passed, his powers steadily developing and making him a forceful factor in the upbuilding of the com- munity in which he lived. He possessed splendid powers of organization, combined with thoroughness and efficiency, and whatever he undertook he carried forward to successful completion. He returned to Portland in 1903 and here engaged in the real estate business and in the promotion of business projects. He was foremost in the upbuilding of the Irvington district, building many of the better homes in that section. In 1916 Mr. Palmer went east to Detroit, where he promoted the consolidation of the Kruger stores and many other stores. In 1919 he returned to Portland on a pleasure trip and while in the city passed away.
In 1905 Mr. Palmer was married to Miss Grace Parelius, a daughter of Martin W. and Jennie (Hjorth) Parelius, who were natives of Norway and came to America with their respective parents, Mr. Palmer arriving in Oregon in 1877. To Mr. and Mrs. Palmer were born three children: Geraldine, Harry Price and Kingdon Parelius.
In his political views Mr. Palmer was an earnest republican as a result of his close study of the vital questions and issues of the day, but while he believed firmly in the principles of the party he never had time nor inclination to seek public office. In Masonry he attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and was also a member of the Mystic Shrine. His religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church. His friends found him a most congenial person and he was never seen to better advantage than in his own home and at his own fireside.
THADDEUS WHITE MILES.
Thaddeus White Miles, member of the Jackson county bar, practicing at Med- ford, was born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1874, a son of John Webster and Ruth (White) Miles. His father belonged to one of the pioneer families of Ohio and after living for a time in Missourl removed to Kansas in early manhood. There he prospered in business and won a reputation as a citizen of sterling worth. He took up his abode in the Sunflower state at an early period in its development and served as the first
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sheriff of Stafford county, Kansas. Later he became connected with the First National Bank of St. John, Kansas, and devoted a number of years to the banking business, contributing much to the substantial growth of the community in which he lived.
Thaddeus W. Miles was educated in the graded and high schools of St. John, Kansas, and in early manhood took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for about a year, but in 1892 decided to remove to the Pacific coast and here became an orchardist. After pursuing a commercial course in the Salem Business College at Salem, Oregon, he entered the law department of the University of Oregon and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1900. Through the succeeding five years he engaged in teaching school, but regarded this merely as an initial step to other pro- fessional activity, it being his ambition eventually to concentrate his efforts upon law practice.
In 1905 Mr. Miles opened a law office in Medford and about the same time organ- ized the Jackson County Abstract Company, of which he was president for a period, but the growth of his law practice forced him to give more and more of his time to his professional duties and to relinquish active work in other connections, although he remains the vice president of the Abstract Company. He has always prepared his cases with great thoroughness and care and has presented his cause in a forceful, logical and conclusive manner. His assertions are seldom, if ever, seriously ques- tioned in court and he has won many notable verdicts, favorable to the interests of his clients.
Mr. Miles married Miss Jessie M. Wagner, a daughter of Jacob Wagner, one of the earliest of the pioneers of the Rogue River valley. Her father established the first flour mill in the valley and was among the most progressive of its early settlers. Mount Wagner, the famous snowclad peak that overlooks the valley, was named in his honor.
In public interest Mr. Miles has manifested deep concern and has given his hearty cooperation to many well devised plans for the public good. He is a member of the Medford city council and also chairman of the public library board. His wife takes an active interest in social affairs and in the club work of the city and both Mr. and Mrs. Miles occupy an enviable position in the regard of their fellow townsmen. He is an Elk and is chairman of its board of trustees. All other interests in his life, however, are made subservient to his duties and obligations as a representative of the bar and he is now a member of the Southern Oregon Bar Association, which he is serving as secretary.
JOHN MOCK.
When John Mock passed away on the 8th of August, 1918, history chronicled the death of one who had for many years been a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present. Moreover, he had made valuable contributions to the work of general development and improvement as the years had gone by, not only through the successful conduct of his business affairs but also through his specific acts along the line of general improvement. He was largely instrumental in bringing the street railway system to the peninsula, he made liberal grants of land for boule- vard purposes and he also donated the land for the site of Columbia University. These were but a few instances of his public spirit and his devotion to all that made for progress and improvement, so that the name of John Mock has long been an honored one among those who know aught of Portland's history.
Mr. Mock was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1838, his parents being Henry and Elizabeth Mock, who were natives of Germany but in early life came to the new world and for some years were residents of Mechanicsburg. In 1844 the family removed to Platte county, Missouri, and there the father purchased a forty-acre tract of land upon which he resided until 1852, when he again started westward with his family. John Mock at that time was a youth of thirteen years and drove a four-yoke team of oxen to the wagon and occasionally the two cows were hitched in with the wagon. The boy handled this outfit with such skill that the trip was completed without the loss of a single ox or cow, a feat rarely accomplised by older men. John Mock also took his place with the men on the night watch, for there was constant danger of the loss of cattle through Indian theft. On one occasion when the party were fording the Platte river in Nebraska, he had a narrow escape from
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drowning, but he had already learned to swim-contrary to his father's wishes and unknown to his parents-and through this knowledge he was able to make his escape from the water. As they journeyed westward it was found necessary to sacrifice a part of their load in order to relieve the travel-worn oxen. The father was unwilling to throw anything away, so John and his mother decided to part with a large basket of their finest china and in the night threw it into the lake. When the family reached The Dalles the father sold two yoke of oxen and loaded the wagon upon a scow, on which he and his wife made their way down the Columbia to the Upper Cascades, while John drove the other oxen over the trail, joining his parents at the Cascades. The wagon was then put together again and they thus traveled to the Lower Cascades, where the household goods were once more loaded on a boat, while John Mock drove the oxen to the Sandy and there met his parents. From that point they proceeded by wagon toward Portland, where they arrived in October, 1852. For three weeks the family camped at Sullivan's gulch, turning their cattle loose to let them graze, but the animals strolled off and it was while in search of them that the family came to the present site of St. Johns, where they met Dr. Caples, who induced them to spend the winter with him. Dr. Caples was the first practicing physician of Port- land and the Mock family occupied one of his places until the spring, when the father took up a donation claim of three hundred and seventeen acres in the district now known as University Park. Neighbors assisted them in building their first log cabin, which continued to be the family home until 1874. Their experiences were those of the pioneer who faces hardships and privations in making a start, but finds that nature is gracious to those who wisely employ their time and utilize their oppor- tunities. In the first year they cleared a small tract of land which they planted with seeds which the mother had brought from the east. The vegetables which they thus raised largely constituted their diet, together with the ducks and geese which they shot on the bottom land. In the second year the father purchased a hog, which he fattened on wild potatoes known as wapatoos that grew in the vicinity and John Mock was often heard to say that when the animal was slaughtered it was the finest meat he had ever tasted. The cost of living was then as now very high, flour of an inferior quality selling for from ten to twelve dollars per sack. The unsettled condi- tion of the district in which the family lived is indicated by the fact that wild animals of various kinds were shot and killed. On one occasion when John Mock had been spending the evening at the home of a neighbor he started home after ten o'clock and was making his way along a dense grove when he heard a noise in the bushes and the next instant felt against him the cold nose of some animal, but could see nothing of the beast save the eyes shining like two balls of fire. Having no weapon he took out his pocket-knife, all the while fixing his gaze upon those fiery eyes and expecting to be attacked at any moment, but the animal slunk back into the bushes. The next day he learned that it was a panther which had been trailed by the neighbors' dogs and shot and which measured nine feet from its nose to the tip of its tail. As the years passed Mr. Mock bore his part in the task of clearing, developing and improving his farm, on which he remained until he reached the age of eighteen years and then started out independently, devoting the succeeding six years to mining and the opera- tion of a pack train.
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