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Dr. Linklater was a Mason of the thirty-second degree, a Shriner and a Knight of Pythias, and was the regimental surgeon of the latter organization. He was an honored member of the Oregon Medical Society and of the American Medical Associa- tion. Professionally and as a man, Dr. Linklater had no superior and the Linklater name will be recorded on the pages of Oregon's history for many generations.
EDWARD THOMAS TAGGART.
The life record of Edward Thomas Taggart, an able representative of the Port- land bar, indicates what can be accomplished through indefatigable effort and deter- mined purpose, when guided by intelligence, sound judgment and laudable ambition. He is a man of determined purpose, carrying forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes, for he possesses the resolute spirit which enables him to overcome all obstacles and difficulties in his path.
Mr. Taggart is numbered among the citizens that the Emerald isle has furnished to Oregon. His birth occurred in County Antrim on the 26th of August, 1868, and his parents were John and Elizabeth (Higginson) Taggart, the former of Scotch descent and the latter of English lineage. Reared on a farm in his native land the
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son there attended the national schools and with no special training for a particular line of business was obliged to accept any position open to a person without special qualifications, during the early period of his manhood. Thinking to find better oppor- tunities for advancement in the new world he emigrated to the United States by way of Canada, making his way to San Francisco, California. Leaving the Golden state he came to Oregon on the 25th of July, 1890, and since September of that year has been a resident of Portland. During the early period of his connection with this city he was employed hy the Portland Cable Railroad Company for about two years and then resigned to accept a position with the dry goods firm of Lipman & Wolfe, with whom he remained for ahout four years, devoting his leisure hours to the study of law. In September, 1896, he resigned in order that he might devote his entire attention to his chosen profession and became a student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he pursued special studies in English in addition to the regular law course. He was graduated therefrom in June, 1898, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and returning to Portland at once entered upon active practice. The zeal with which he has devoted his energies to his profession, the careful regard evinced for the interests of his clients and his assiduous and unrelaxing attention to all the details of his cases, have brought him a large husiness and made him very successful in its conduct. His arguments have elicited warm commendation not only from his asso- ciates at the bar but also from the bench. His presentation of a case indicates wide research, careful thought and the hest and strongest reasons that can he urged for his contention, presented in a cogent and logical form and illustrated hy a style unusually lucid and clear.
On the 28th of August, 1899, in Tacoma, Washington, Mr. Taggart was united in marriage to Miss Eugenia Hobbs, a daughter of an old New York family and a graduate of the University of Michigan. In his political views Mr. Taggart is an earnest republi- can and since 1887 has been an exemplary member of the Masonic fraternity. He entered into affiliation with Occidental Lodge, No. 22, A. F. & A. M., of San Francisco. about 1889, and later became a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 12, A. F. & A. M., of Portland. Since 1892 he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has held all the offices in the subordinate lodge, and he is also identified with the Irvington Club. Having been horn and reared in the Presbyterian faith his views naturally followed the teachings of that church, of which he has long been a useful member. His life has ever been guided by high and honorable principles and his acts are prompted by worthy motives. His fellow townsmen attest his sterling quali- ties and personal worth as well as his professional ability and he has gained a wide circle of friends during the period of his residence in the northwest.
WILLIAM ARTHUR ROBBINS.
.William Arthur Robbins, a distinguished member of the Oregon har practicing at Portland, has closely applied himself to the mastery of legal principles and his high professional standing is indicated in the fact that he is retained as attorney by the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company. A native of this state, Mr. Robbins was horn on a farm in Polk county, July 27, 1873. His father, John H. Rob- bins, was born in Decatur county, Indiana, September 2, 1832, and in 1862, when thirty years of age, crossed the plains to Oregon, first locating at Dallas and subsequently removing to Polk county, where he followed farming. In 1877 he came to Portland. where he entered business circles as proprietor of a music store which he conducted for several years, continuing a resident of this city until 1888. He then became inter- ested in mining and from 1888 until 1895 successfully operated the Robbins-Elkhorn gold mines. He was also the possessor of notable creative ability and became the inventor of the combined harvester, which is now extensively used throughout the northwest. He was twice married, his first wife being Hester Minnock, whom he wedded in Iowa on the 12th of January, 1855, and who accompanied her husband on his removal to Oregon. Their family numbered three children: Benjamin F., whose demise occurred in the Fox valley of Oregon on the 12th of October, 1894; Emma Alice, the widow of Isaac C. Reese, whose death occurred in Portland; and Sarah Jane, the widow of George Phillips, who passed away in Zena, Oregon. The death of the wife and mother occurred at Baker, Oregon, soon after the arrival of the family in that city in 1862 and on the 17th of January, 1864, Mr. Robbins married Margaret
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Harvey, the ceremony taking place at Bethel, Oregon. She is a native of this state and is now residing in Portland, but Mr. Robbins has passed away, his death occurring near Amity, Oregon, on the 25th of September, 1912.
In the schools of Portland William A. Robbins acquired his early education and subsequently entered the law school of Willamette University at Salem, from which he was graduated in 1898 with the LL. B. degree, being admitted to the bar the same year. Being desirous of still further perfecting his professional knowledge he pursued a postgraduate course in law at Leland Stanford University of California, and establishing an office in Portland he has since made steady advancement as he has proven his ability to cope with intricate problems of the law. In 1904 he became attorney for the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company and during the period of the World war was made general attorney for the United States Railroad Administration-a tribute to his high professional standing. Following his release from government service he resumed his professional connections with the Oregon- Washington Railroad & Navigation Company and is most capably safeguarding the legal interests of that corporation. His mind is analytical and logical in its trend and in his presentation of a case he is always fortified by a comprehensive under- standing of the legal principles applicable thereto.
On the 6th of March, 1901, in Salem, Oregon, Mr. Robbins was united in mar- riage to Miss Edyth Grace Savage, a daughter of the late Lyman A. Savage, an early settler of Marion county, Oregon, where for many years he successfully followed farming, there passing away on the 11th of February, 1898.
In his political views Mr. Robbins is a republican and his fellow townsmen, recog- nizing his worth and ability, have called him to public office. From 1899 until 1902 he was chief clerk of the Oregon legislature and he has also served as deputy district attorney for the seventh judicial district of Oregon. He affiliates with the Chris- tian church and fraternally is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is also a Master Mason and in social circles of his community is well known as a member of the University Club. He is likewise identified with the Progressive Business Men's Club and the Transportation Club and is an earnest and active mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce, giving his hearty support to all plans and projects that have as their object the advancement of his city and the extension of its trade relations. With a nature that cannot be content with mediocrity, he has bent every energy to the mastery of his profession and his high intellectual attainments have placed him with the foremost attorneys of the state. His course has been character- ized by integrity and honor in every relation and commands for him the respect and esteem of all with whom he has been associated.
JOHN FRANCIS DALY.
As president of the Hibernia Commercial & Savings Bank of Portland John Francis Daly occupies a foremost position in financial circles of the city, and actuated by a spirit of unfaltering enterprise and determination he has contributed in large measure to the successful management of the undertaking, which is one of the large financial enterprises of this section of the state. He has won success through honesty, integrity and strict application to business and his activities have ever been of a constructive nature, contributing to public progress and prosperity as well as to in- dividual aggrandizement.
Mr. Daly is a native of Iowa. He was born in Cresco, November 7, 1879, a son of Mathew W. Daly and a grandson of Maurice Daly, who was a native of Ireland and in the '30s emigrated to the United States. The father was born on a farm in New York state in 1850 and in Decorah, Iowa, he married Mary Frances Fitzgerald, a native of Howard county, that state. In 1880 they removed to Madison, South Dakota, and there the demise of Mathew W. Daly occurred on the 18th of January, 1898.
In the schools of Madison, South Dakota, John F. Daly pursued his early educa- tion, after which he attended the State Normal School. He next became a student in Notre Dame University, but after reaching his sophomore year he was called home by the death of his father. Being the eldest son he assumed charge of his father's interests, entering the bank of Daly & Mackay at Madison, South Dakota, of which Mathew W. Daly was the president, and thus acquiring his initial experience in the field of banking. There he received thorough instruction in matters of finance, retain-
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ing his connection with the bank for several years. In September, 1904, he arrived in Portland and for seven months was identified with the Portland Trust Company as manager of the real estate and investment department. In 1905 he purchased the business of the Security Abstract & Trust Company, of which he became president, so continuing until 1908, in which year he organized the Title & Trust Company, which absorbed the business of the Security Abstract & Trust Company, increasing its capital from fifty thousand to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He was active in the management of this large enterprise until 1919, when he was elected to his present office as president of the Hibernia Commercial & Savings Bank of Portland, which is regarded as one of the substantial moneyed institutions of the city. Broad experience has given him comprehensive knowledge of the banking business in prin- ciple and detail and he is able to speak with authority upon many questions relative to financial interests. In the control of the affairs of the bank he displays marked ability and energy, regarding no detail as too unimportant to receive his attention and at the same time controlling the larger factors in his interests with notable assur- ance and power. He is actuated at all times by a spirit of firm determination that enables him to overcome all difficulties and obstacles in his path and under his able direction the business of the bank has shown a steady increase. He retains his inter- est in the Title & Trust Company, of which he is a director, and he is also on the directorate of the Mortgage Guarantee Company, the Bankers Discount Corporation and the Western Wool Warehouse Company.
On the 2d of June, 1909, in Portland, Mr. Daly was united in marriage to Miss Marguerite Wiley, a daughter of the late Joseph R. and Margaret Wiley. The four children of this marriage are: John Daly, Jr., Mary Margaret, James Wiley and Cath- erine Clarissa.
In his political views Mr. Daly is a republican and his religious faith is indicated by his identification with the Knights of Columbus, which draws its members from those of the Catholic faith. He possesses a delightful personality, which has won for him many friends, and he is a popular member of the Arlington and Multnomah Amateur Athletic Clubs. He is an earnest member of the Chamber of Commerce and is active in civic matters, supporting all plans and projects which have for their object the welfare and advancement of his city. During the period of the World war he aided in promoting all of the Liberty loan, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus drives, serving as chairman of the latter campaign in Portland. He finds diversion in golf and is fond of good literature, devoting much study to economic subjects, and in all matters of public moment he is deeply and helpfully interested. His connection with any undertaking insures a prosperous outcome of the same, for it is his nature to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. He has never sacrificed high standards to commercialism and his record is proof of the fact that success and an honored name may be won simultaneously.
BENNETT BROTHERS.
The firm of Bennett Brothers, consisting of Ralph B. and Leigh S. Bennett, con- ducts a garage and automobile agency on the Columbia River highway in the city of Hood River and is among the leaders of that industry in the Hood River valley. Their parents were Daniel S. and Sarah ( Blackhurst) Bennett, at one time residents of Oneida county, New York, where the two sons were born. Ralph Blackhurst was born in 1883, while the birth of Leigh Smith Bennett occurred in 1885. The family was an old one in the state of New York and came of the same ancestral stock as Commodore Perry. The representatives of the family had been farmers in the Empire state for many generations. The Blackhurst family was also an old one in America, being descended from James Blackhurst, a native of England, who came to the new world about the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Ralph Blackhurst Bennett was educated in the graded and high schools of Water- ville, New York, and in Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1906 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He spent the year following his graduation in tutoring and then took up newspaper work as a profession, accepting a position on the Utica Daily Press. He remained with that paper for two years and then accepted an offer as editor of the Connecticut Western News, with which he was thus associated for a year. Attracted by the opportunities of the new and growing west he left New
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England and made his way to Oregon, where he become a reporter and later a tele- graph editor with the Portland Telegram. After two years' connection with that paper he and his brother Leigh purchased the Ashland Tidings which they published for a year. At length they sold the Tidings and removed to Hood River, becoming owners of the Hood River News, conducting it for eight years. The participation of America in the World war brought about the sale of the News and Ralph B. Bennett tendered his services to his country and entered the officers' training camp at Eugene, Oregon. He was ordered from there to Camp McArthur in Texas and was still in training when the armistice was signed. Returning to Hood River, in association with his brother he established the Bennett Brothers Garage and they have since conducted a gratifying and growing business.
Ralph B. Bennett was married in 1919 to Miss Anne Helen Johnson of Seattle, Washington, and they are widely and favorably known at Hood River. Mr. Bennett is a member of the Oregon Editorial Association, also of the Hood River Commercial Club. He is a Mason and also a Knight of Pythias and his religious faith is indicated in the fact that he is now serving as vestryman of St. Mark's Episcopal church.
Leigh Smith Bennett was educated in the graded and high schools of Waterville and in the Eastman Business College of New York. Through the succeeding six years following his graduation he was employed as an accountant in New York and then removed to Portland, Oregon, where he engaged in the printing business. On selling his print shop he became associated with his brother Ralph in the purchase of the Ashland Tidings and was business manager of that publication and of the Hood River News. After the close of the World war he and his brother established the garage which they still own and which is accorded a liberal patronage. Theirs is one of the largest and best equipped garages on the Columbia River highway. It is a concrete structure with a floor space of thirty thousand square feet, divided into office, salesroom, accessory department, storage and repair shop. The firm acts as agent for the Dodge Brothers and Chandler cars and the garage is a Dodge Brothers service station. The firm is also agent for the John Deere farm implements and carries a full line of orchard supplies, including the Hardie sprayer.
In 1919 Leigh S. Bennett was married to Miss Sadie Noyes of Portland, a descend- ant of one of the pioneer families of Oregon, her father having been for many years captain of river boats and widely known as a highly respected citizen of this part of the state. No young men in the Hood River valley are more highly respected in busi- ness and social circles than Ralph B. and Leigh Smith Bennett.
FREDERICK W. LEADBETTER.
Frederick W. Leadbetter, a man of the keenest business judgment, has been eminently successful in his undertakings and his important and extensive business interests rank him with the leading capitalists of the state. A native of Iowa, Mr. Leadbetter was born in Clinton in 1870 and is a son of Charles H. Leadbetter, whose birth occurred in Northmead, Maine, in 1840. The father was married in Brooklyn, New York, to Ann Matilda Cummings and his demise occurred in 1905. The mother survives and is residing in Santa Barbara, California.
In the schools of Maine, New York and California Frederick W. Leadbetter pursued his education, becoming a student in the State Normal School at San Jose, California. When twenty-one years of age he laid aside his textbooks to enter the business world in connection with irrigation interests in Yakima, Washington, with which he was identified for two years. He then came to Portland and in 1894 became connected with the advertising department of The Oregonian, so continuing for two years. He then began the manufacture of paper at Camas, Washington, establishing an enter- prise that has since developed to mammoth proportions, being now a part of the Crown-Willamette Paper Company, having the largest factories of any similar enter- prise in the world, the daily capacity being seven hundred and fifty tons. The California-Oregon Paper Mills, of which Mr. Leadbetter is president, maintain mills at Los Angeles, California, and at Vancouver, Washington, in addition to the Camas plant, and he is likewise vice president and half owner of the Spalding Logging Company, with mills at Salem, McMinnville and Newberg, Oregon. His notable busi- ness acumen, keen sagacity and powers of organization have been manifested along many lines of endeavor and he is now serving as president of the Pittock & Leadbetter
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Lumber Company the Industrial Land Company, the Camas Water Company, the Camas Booming Company, the Camas Sheep & Cattle Company, the Oregon Pulp & Paper Company, the Pittock & Leadbetter Company and La Camas Mill & Flume Company. A man of clear vision and a keen observer, he has always borne an unas- sailable reputation for integrity and reliability in all business matters and his activi- ties have ever been of a constructive nature, contributing to public progress and prosperity as well as to individual aggrandizement.
On the 27th of September, 1894, Mr. Leadbetter was united in marriage to Miss Caroline P. Pittock, a daughter of the late Henry L. Pittock, who was widely known in journalistic circles of the northwest as managing owner and publisher of The Oregonian and whose career was inseparably linked with that of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Leadbetter have become the parents of four children: Georgiana, the wife of Major Frank B. Andreae; Pittock; Dorothy Rose; and Elizabeth.
In his political views Mr. Leadbetter is a republican and in religious faith he is an Episcopalian. His social nature finds expression in his membership in the Arlington, Waverly, Multnomah, Press, Ad, Portland Rowing and Commercial Clubs, all of Port- land, and of the last named organization he at one time served as president. He is also identified with the Pacific Union, San Francisco and Santa Barbara Clubs, the Racket & Tennis Club of New York, and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C. He is active in local charitable organizations and is an enthusiastic sportsman, ex- celling at polo. He plays a good game of tennis and golf and also enjoys hunting and fishing. He is likewise fond of good literature and possesses an unusual knowledge of history for a man of such varied and extensive business interests. Soon after the declaration of war with Germany he enlisted in the Oregon National Guard and was elected captain of Troop C. He was later transferred to Washington, D. C., where he remained until the fall of 1918, when he was sent to France on a special mission and so served until after the signing of the armistice, being discharged in December, 1918, as major in the regular army, following which he returned to Portland to take charge of his extensive business interests. Much of his life has been passed in posi- tions of executive control, in which his energies have been largely concentrated upon organization, constructive effort and administrative direction. His initiative spirit and notable ability have carried him into important relations and the breadth and scope of his activities entitle him to classification with the builders of the great northwest. He stands for all that is truly American in citizenship, upholding the interests of com- munity and country at all times, and his cooperation can ever be counted upon to further any movement for the public good. His has been a life of intense and well directed activity and the worth of his work is widely acknowledged.
REV. HANS HANSEN.
Rev. Hans Hansen, who devoted his active life to the work of the ministry and left the impress of his individuality and ability upon the moral progress of every community with which he was connected, spent his last days in Portland. He was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, August 22, 1836, a son of John Henry and Anna (Knutte) Hansen. The mother passed away when her son was but five years of age. He spent the period of his boyhood and youth in his native country and in 1856 set sail for America, going first to Minnesota. He was there located at the time the Civil war broke out and he enlisted as a member of Company H, Seventh Regiment of Minnesota Volunteers, in 1862. Thus joining the "boys in blue," he served for three years and participated in several of the hotly contested engagements which figure most prominently in the history of that struggle. He was mustered out as a sergeant at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, August 16, 1865.
Returning to his home in that state Mr. Hansen took up a course of study in preparation for the ministry and in 1866 accepted a call to the church at Henderson, Minnesota, and for several years was engaged in circuit work. With his removal to the northwest he settled first in Tacoma, Washington, where he engaged in preaching for two years and then came to Portland, after which he filled a pastorate at Mil- waukie, Oregon, for one year. On the expiration of that period he went to Whatcom, now Bellingham, Washington, to open up a new field for church work and there continued for three years. Later he returned to Tacoma, spending some time there and subsequently again became a resident of Portland, where he remained until his
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death. During the many years which he devoted to the ministry he occupied various pastorates and contributed in large measure to the upbuilding of the churches in the different sections in which he labored. In 1902 he retired from the active work of the ministry and spent his remaining days in the enjoyment of well earned rest. He passed away at his home May 19, 1920.
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