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The year 1890 witnessed the arrival of Judge Cleland in Portland. Here he began the practice of law in association with his brother, William A. Cleland, under the firm style of Cleland & Cleland, and was thus engaged until January, 1898, when he was called to the bench by appointment of Governor Lord, who made him judge of the fourth judicial district of Oregon. He continued in the office for thirteen years, having been elected for a full term in the fall of 1898 and afterward reelected. His course upon the bench was in harmony with his record as a man and citizen, being characterized by marked fidelity to duty and by a masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution. His decisions were strictly fair and impartial and his record was one which reflected credit and honor upon the judicial history of the state. In January, 1911, he resumed the private practice of law in partnership with his brother under the firm name of John B. and W. A. Cleland, the firm maintaining an existence until dissolved by the death of W. A. Cleland in February, 1913. Judge Cleland has since practiced alone and is justly accounted one of the eminent members of the Portland bar. In 1906 he became a lecturer in the law department of the University of Oregon and so continued until the department was transferred from Portland to Eugene. He then became a lecturer in the Northwestern College of Law.
On the 23d of February, 1874, in Janesville, Wisconsin, Judge Cleland was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Josephine Corey and to them have been born four children: Laura J .; Bessie Isabella, who is the wife of John C. Baird of Portland; Earl J .; and Mattie Ellen. All are now residents of this city.
Judge Cleland's military experience is confined to service as adjutant of the Sixth Regiment of the lowa National Guard during his young manhood. He is a prominent Mason, having been made a member of the order in Osage Lodge, No. 102, A. F. & A. M., in 1872, while from 1874 until 1876 he served as its worshipful master. He was likewise connected with the Royal Arch chapter at Osage and was high priest of that body in 1875-6. He became a member of Coeur De Leon Commandery, No. 19, K. T., at Osage, and filled the position of eminent commander for six years and was also senior grand warden of the grand commandery of the state of Iowa. In 1898 he served as grand master of Masons of Oregon and for twenty years has been a mem-
ber of the jurisprudence committee of the grand lodge of this state. He was also eminent commander of Oregon Commandery No. 1, K. T., for two years and in 1899 was grand commander of the grand commandery of Oregon. In the Scottish Rite he has received the honorary thirty-third degree. He became a member of El Zagel Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Fargo, North Dakota, and now belongs to Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Portland. While at Osage, Iowa, he likewise served as worthy patron of the Eastern Star and thus his Masonic activities have been of an extensive and varied character.
While a student in the law department of the University of Michigan, Judge Cle- land became one of the founders of the Phi Delta Phi fraternity, the membership being at first confined to law students in attendance at the university. The order, how- ever, has since been extended to many of the law schools of the United States and Canada and has now a very large enrollment. Judge Cleland is a life member of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club and his interest in public affairs is shown in his connection with the Portland Chamber of Commerce. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has exerted considerable' influence in party affairs, and such is the recognized soundness of his political opinions that his position is one of leadership.
WILLIAM H. MASTERS.
William H. Masters, who in 1910 was admitted to the Oregon bar and to practice before the state supreme court, has followed his profession in Portland since 1911. He was born in this city May 22, 1887, and is a son of William York Masters, whose birth occurred in Portland, April 1, 1862. His father was William Masters, Sr., who was born in Pennsylvania May 17, 1819, and who was a son of Christopher Masters, whose birth occurred when his parents were crossing the ocean. His father was Melchoir
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Masters, and the latter was a son of Gregorius Masters, who was the emigrant ancestor coming from Switzerland in 1734.
William York Masters attended the public schools of Portland and was graduated from the Oregon State Agricultural College in 1881 with the A. M. degree. He then read law and was admitted to the bar in 1884 and to the United States supreme court, March 4, 1890, since which time he has practiced before that tribunal. For twenty- seven years, from 1889 to 1916, he was attorney for the Pacific Title & Trust Company. In the World war he served on the legal advisory board and acted as a captain in connection with all bond drives. For two terms he filled the office of member of the Portland City council and at all times has given his political allegiance to the repub- lican party. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine. His religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. On the 31st of March, 1886, in Corvallis, Oregon, he married Elizabeth Margaret Belle, a daughter of the late Henry M. Belle, who was an Oregon pioneer of 1852. That was the same year in which William Masters, grandfather of William H. Masters, came to Portland and later he saw service in the Indian wars in the same decade. His wife also crossed the plains with her parents in 1852. She was born in Greene county, Illinois, a daughter of the Rev. John W. York, and died in 1907.
William H. Masters was the eldest of a family of five children, the others being Bertha Bell, Edward Wilbur, Alfred R. and Margaret Elizabeth. William H. Masters attended the Portland schools until graduated from the high school and then entered the Stanford University of California, in which he completed his course in 1909 with the Bachelor of Arts degree, while in 1911 he won the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. In 1910 he was admitted to the Oregon bar and also to practice before the supreme court of the state and in the following year, on the completion of his course in the Stanford University, he opened a law office in Portland, where he has since followed his profession. In a calling where advancement depends entirely upon individual merit and ability he has steadily worked his way upward and his clientele is now large and gratifying, connecting him with much important litigation heard in the courts of Oregon. He is also a director and the attorney for the Pacific Title & Trust Company and a director of the Manley Automobile Company.
On the 19th of January, 1918, Mr. Masters enlisted for service in the World war and entered a non-commissioned officers' training school at Benicia Arsenal, California, while later he was sent to Camp Hancock, Georgia, and on the 20th of May, 1918, was assigned to the Three Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment of Cavalry in the National army. He was then sent to Fort D. A. Russell in Wyoming and in August, 1918, the Three Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment was converted into two regiments of light field artillery, numbers Seventy-one and Seventy-two. Mr. Masters was assigned to Seventy- two as ordnance sergeant, to which rank he had been appointed June 20, 1918, while at Fort D. A. Russell. On the 5th of September, 1918, Field Artillery No. Seventy-two was ordered to West Point, Kentucky, and there remained until December 24, 1918, when the command was transferred to Camp Knox, Kentucky, aud on the 7th of Feb- ruary, 1919, was honorably discharged.
On the 28th of October, 1918, in Louisville, Kentucky, Mr. Masters was married to Mary A. Shattuck, a daughter of the late John Shattuck, who was a Confederate veteran of the Civil war. They have become parents of a son, William John, born September 2, 1919. Politically Mr. Masters is a stalwart republican, having supported the party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to the Woodmen of the World and to the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, and the nature of his interests is further indicated in the fact that he has membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.
THOMAS H. TONGUE, JR.
A native son of Oregon is Thomas H. Tongue, Jr., who is one of the prominent lawyers of Washington county and is also chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. He was born in Hillsboro, July 21, 1879, a son of Thomas H. and Emily (Eagleton) Tongue. His father, the Hon. Thomas H. Tongue, was one of the most distinguished members of the Oregon bar. He was elected senator for the state and after a season of eminent service he was elected to congress in 1896. In this public
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work he attained a great degree of popularity with the result that he was reelected to this office in 1898, 1900 and 1902. His death occurred in January, 1903, just before entering his fourth term. His death was deeply regretted by the people of Oregon of all classes and political affiliations, for they knew him to be a capable and honest man. He had settled in Oregon in 1859 and had devoted his time and talents to the state of which he was proud of being a pioneer and which he had so materially assisted in building up. The Eagletons were pioneers of 1862, coming to this country from Indiana where they had resided for generations.
T. H. Tongue, Jr., the subject of this review, was educated in the primary and high schools of Hillsboro and later attended the Tualatin Academy. Completing his elementary education he attended the Pacific University, graduating in 1900, and later entered the law department of the George Washington University at Washington, D. C., from which he was graduated in 1903. On the 1st of October of the same year he was admitted to the bar and since that date has practiced his profession in his home city, Hillsboro. As a lawyer Mr. Tongue occupies a high place at the Oregon bar and he is fluent as an orator and is an astute counselor. Outside of his profession Mr. Tongue takes a great pleasure in his two farms, one consisting of two hundred and seventy-two acres located two and one-half miles south of Hillsboro and the other consisting of one hun- dred and sixty acres and located nine miles north of the city. On one farm he raises a general crop and the other one he devotes to stock raising and dairying. There he spends his vacations, away from the grind of his law practice and his political activities.
In 1907 Mr. Tongue was united in marriage to Miss Irene Cadwell, a daughter of E. P. Cadwell, a retired capitalist. Mrs. Tongue is recognized throughout her com- munity as a prominent woman, a devoted mother and a charming hostess. Three chil- dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Tongue, namely, Margaret Emily, Dorothy Grace, and Thomas H., III.
Since age conferred upon Mr. Tongue the right of franchise he has been a stanch supporter of the republican party and while taking an active interest in politics he has never sought political office, being content to give his time and talents to the up- holding of his party. He has long been a member of the Republican State Central Committee and in 1916 he was made its chairman by a unanimous vote. In 1920 he was again unanimously elected to the chairmanship. His business interests have not let him forget the social amenities of life and to that end he is an active member of the University, Multnomah and Portland Hunt Clubs and he is fraternally affiliated with the Masons, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree and is a Shriner, and Knight of Pythias. He is also a member of the Phi Delta Pi college fraternity.
Mr. Tongue is one of the really valuable men of his county, earnest, enterprising, and progressive, such a man as any community is fortunate in possessing. As a lawyer he is one of the best and his unselfish services to his party have won for him the admiration and esteem of all members of his party throughout every section of the state.
CHARLES ALFRED EDWARDS.
A dynamic force in the business circles of Portland is Charles Alfred Edwards, who, by reason of what he has done in the development of the coast import and export trade has contributed in large measure to the progress, not only of Portland but of other sections of the Pacific coast country as well. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, July 18, 1870, and is a son of William H. and Helen C. (Ernenputch) Edwards. The father was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1828, while the mother was a native of Atlanta, Georgia. They were married in Augusta, Georgia, and the father passed away in Brooklyn, New York, April 26, 1882.
Charles A. Edwards was reared in his native city, acquiring his primary education in the public schools and in the evening high school. He completed his public school course at the age of thirteen and continued his high school studles until he reached the age of sixteen, but when a lad of fourteen he entered the employ of Edward Perry & Company, charterers and operators of steamships at No. 69 Wall street, New York. He started as office boy and remained in that line of business for eleven years on Wall street, becoming a member of the Maritime and Produce Exchanges, with which he was connected until April, 1896. He then joined the American Trading Company of New York, and this corporation soon sent him to Shanghai, China, and five years later to
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Yokohama. A year was there passed and he then went to London. He acted, in all these places, as manager of the American Trading Company of New York. In 1907, however, he resigned his position and accepted the post of first manager of the Anglo South American Bank in New York city, continuing in that connection until 1908, resigning after serving for twenty months. In January, 1910, he came to Portland and took an interest in a cereal mill, which was destroyed by fire in October of the same year. In the spring of 1911 he was sent to the Orient by the Portland Flouring Mills Company and subsequent to his return eight months later he established the United States Commerce Company, of which he became the president. Soon after the in- auguration of the World war in 1915 the United States Commerce Company was absorbed by A. O. Andersen & Company of Portland, vessel owners and merchants, and Mr. Edwards was made manager of the merchandising end of the business and so continued until June, 1917, when he became vice president and general manager of the corpora- tion, which has branches in Seattle and Shanghai with affiliated organizations under the same name in San Francisco, New York, Copenhagen, Christiania, Stockholm and Santo Domingo. The firm is engaged in the upbuilding of import and export trade in all kinds of products and conducts also an extensive business in domestic lumber. Of Mr. Edwards it has been said, "He is a big man in a big business, and a power of great importance on the Pacific coast. He has had broad and remarkable experience along the line in which he is now directing his energies, for he is a director of the Albina Engine & Machine Works, Inc., of the Pybus Bay Fish & Packing Company, and of various ship-owning companies identified with A. O. Andersen & Company. He is also a director and the treasurer of the Portland Vegetable Oil Mills Company, and displays sound judgment in the management of his various extensive and important interests." On January 1, 1921, Mr. Edwards resigned from the Andersen interests and now devotes his time and attention to the Portland Vegetable Oil Mills Company.
On the 29th of April, 1897, in Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Edwards was married to Miss Jane Coles Morrison, and their children are: Charles Norman, born in Shanghai, China, January 21, 1900; Alan Morrison, born in London, England, June 27, 1905; and Janet Elizabeth, born in Brooklyn, New York, February 10, 1908. Mr. Edwards gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church. His social nature has found expression in his connection with a number of the leading clubs, not only of Portland but other cities in which he has resided. He belongs to the Arlington Club, to the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, the Portland Golf Club, and is also identified with the Chamber of Commerce. He is likewise a member of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, and a life member of the Shanghai Club of Shanghai, China. He has been successful in business, owing to careful attention, good judgment, hard work and wide vision. Through prac- tically his entire life he has been identified with shipping interests and export and import trade and recognizing the opportunities of the west and the chance for develop- ment and trade with the Orient, he wisely chose Portland as a scene of labor and is today one of the most prominent business men of the Pacific northwest.
CLIFFORD ECCLES WALKER, M. D.
Dr. Clifford Eccles Walker has won for himself a place of prominence in Forest Grove and the surrounding country, both professionally as a Doctor of Osteopathy and as a man active in club and social life. Dr. Walker may well be proud of his illustrious ancestors. In 1634 the first recorded member of that branch of the Walker family to which Dr. Walker belongs was set down as Widow Walker, a member of the old Ply- mouth colony and one of the first proprietors of the town of Rehoboth, or Seekonk, whereon is now located the city of Providence, Rhode Island. No record has been traced as to her name, other than Widow Walker, nor of her husband having accompanied her to America. She had three children, one of whom was Philip Walker, a man of prominence evidently, for the records show that he was a member of the grand jury in May, 1655, propounded for freedom in the same year and took the "Oath of Fidelity" in 1658. The third generation is represented by his son, Samuel, who was born in 1655 and served under Major Bradford in King Philip's war. He is recorded as cornet, lieutenant, captain and gent, which evidently is meant to show his rise in the service and his title. After the close of the war he became a farmer and the owner of some seven hundred acres of land. He was then representative to the general court. His son
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Peter (fourth generation), was horn in 1689, and his son, Aaron (fifth generation), was born in 1728 and served in Captain Bliss' company of minute men and later as a lieutenant under Colonel Timothy Walker, evidently a relative. The sixth generation in the direct line is represented by Walter, the son of Aaron, born in 1766. He moved to Charleston, New Hampshire, and like his forebears was a farmer. To him was born a son, John Curtis Walker, in 1806 (seventh generation), who located at Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1858. His son, Charles A. Walker (eighth generation), was born in 1854 and married Miss Rena C. Carter, and to them was born Clifford E. Walker (ninth generation), at Northport, Wisconsin, January 14, 1882. Charles A. Walker migrated to Oregon in 1896, and died in this state in 1908. On his mother's side Dr. Walker's grandfather, Myron C. Carter, served in Grant's army during the Civil war as a colonel in the engineers and among Dr. Walker's most treasured possessions is a piece of cloth and a sprig of immortelles from the coffin of that distinguished soldier.
Dr. Walker was educated in the grades at Chicago, Illinois, and attended high school at Portland, Oregon. He received his medical training at the Still College of Osteopathy in Des Moines, Iowa, from which institution he was graduated in 1904. He began his practice in Portland, Oregon, and remained in that city until 1909, when he located at Forest Grove, where he has built up a large practice. Dr. Walker ranks as one of the leading osteopaths in the state and one of the most popular physicians of any school in Oregon.
In 1907 he married Miss Mary E. Ladd, daughter of E. J. Ladd of Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Walker is a member of the Woman's Club and is prominent in club and social life of the state. She is also a prominent member of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Oregon.
Dr. Walker is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. Professionally he is a member of the Oregon Osteopathic Society, the Western Osteopathic Association and the American Osteopathic Association. Both Dr. and Mrs. Walker are influential and valued residents of Forest Grove and their position in the state is established.
HARRISON A. WHITNEY.
Harrison A. Whitney, junior member of the firm of Sutton & Whitney, leading architects of the northwest, maintaining offices in Portland and Tacoma, has been a resident of the Rose City since 1904 and through his professional activities has made substantial contribution to the improvement and upbuilding of this section of the country. He has never been content with the second best but is constantly striving to perfect his skill and ability in his chosen life work through study and observation.
Mr. Whitney comes of honorable and distinguished ancestry. Representatives of the family fought to preserve American interests in the Revolutionary war and his paternal grandmother belonged to that branch of the Taylor family which included President Zachary Taylor, known as "Old Hickory," among its members. His great- uncle, William H. Allen, LL. D., was the first president of Girard College of Philadel- phia and served in that capacity for thirty years, while his maternal uncle, Charles T. Goodell, Ph. D., is president of Franklin College of Indiana. His father, Rev. Wilson Whitney, is a native of Maine and a minister of the Baptist church, having filled pulpits in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and while residing in Minnesota was state superintendent of missions. He married Mary A. Goodell and is now living retired, his labors in former years having been productive of much good in the localities where he resided.
It was while the family were residing in Iowa that the son, Harrison A. Whit- ney, was born and he pursued his education in the public and high schools of Adrian, Michigan, after which he was for a year a student at Armour Institute of Chicago, while later he pursued a three years' course in architecture at the Boston School of Technology, graduating in 1904. Becoming a resident of Portland in that year, he took charge of the drafting work in the office of Lewis & Whidden, prominent archi- tects of this city, and during the Lewis and Clark Exposition was superintendent of construction on many of the buildings, among which may be mentioned the Oregon Forestry building, the largest log house ever constructed. In 1912 he became a partner of Albert Sutton under the firm style of Sutton & Whitney, a relationship that is still maintained. They are regarded as experts in their line of work and their superior skill and ability have drawn to them a large patronage. They maintain a branch
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office in Tacoma, Washington, of which Mr. Sutton has charge, there spending the greater part of his time, and many of the city's most substantial and beautiful banks and office buildings stand as monuments to their superior workmanship and ability. They are now engaged on the construction of the Multnomah County Infirmary, a mil- lion dollar contract, and were the architects for the Hood River Library, regarded as one of the best arranged small libraries in the United States. They also recently won in a regularly conducted competition the new million-dollar Scottish Rite Cathe- dral, which will be erected in Portland in 1922.
In 1905 Mr. Whitney was united in marriage to Miss Hazel M. Paulus, of Portland, and they have become the parents of two daughters, Jeannette and Ruth. Mr. Whitney is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and an earnest supporter of its plans and projects for the development and upbuilding of the city. He is a Mason of high rank, having attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite Consistory, a member of the City Club and a director in several business corporations. He is con- stantly striving to increase his professional knowledge and ability and in 1919 devoted several months to travel throughout the United States, visiting a number of the larger cities in the east for the purpose of studying hospital construction. He is energetic, straightforward and honorably ambitious and measures up to the highest standards of personal honor and present day business ethics. He has attained high rank in his profession and Portland regards him as a valuable asset to her citizenship.
MAJOR WILLIAM JANE.
Within a very brief period after his arrival in Portland, where his family now reside, Major William Jane returned to England to enter the British army, for he was still a citizen of Great Britain, and his loyalty and patriotic devotion to his country led to an immediate desire to rejoin the military forces when it was seen that England must bear her part in suppressing the autocracy of Germany. Major Jane was born in Wrexham, Wales, December 14, 1865, his parents being William and Annie (Cope) Jane. The father came of a wealthy family, belonging to the gentleman class of Eng- land, his holdings being sufficient to obviate the necessity of employment. His wife was a representative of a noted family of manufacturers there.
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