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 given individual consideration. The listing is chronological for the selections rather than for them, with the idea of having these quoted passages from their works form, as neatly as possible, a short episodic history of Oregon.

For half a century, with comprehensiveness and accuracy, Judge Charles H. Carey has been writing Oregon history. Many workers appalled at the wasted effort of having to cover every point from original sources in order to be safe, as if there could be no cooperative headway in such fatiguing business as writing history, have found a glad surcease of much woe and a diminution of much labor in the richness and reliability of his books.

He was born in Cincinnati on October 27, 1857. He was graduated from Denison University in 1881 and received a law degree from Cincinnati College in 1883. That year he married Mary N. Bidwell and began the practice of law in Portland, becoming Oregon counsel for various railways, public service corporations and industrial and commercial companies. He was municipal judge of Portland from 1892 to 1895. His civic activities have been numerous, wide in range and prominent. In this respect — in his capacity and willingness to give —he is a modern prototype of Judge Matthew P. Deady. He has served as vice-president of the American Bar Association and as president of the Oregon Bar Association; as president of the Multnomah Law Library; as vice-president of the Arts and Crafts Society; as president of the Lang Syne Society; as a prominent member of Republican clubs, conferences, committees and conventions; and as a representative in several national and international organizations and societies. He is now president of the Portland Art Association and of the Oregon Historical Association, and is honorary president of the Oregon Writers' League. In 1927 the University of Oregon conferred upon him the degree of master of arts in public service. For a few years he has been corporation commissioner of Oregon.

He was a contributor to Elwood Evans' History of the Pacific Northwest, 1889, and to Harvey W. Scott's History of Portland, 1890. He is author of Index-Digest of the Oregon and Washington Reports, 1888; History of Oregon, 1922; The Oregon Constitution, 1926. Some Early Maps and Myths, 1929; The Journals of Theodore Talbot, 1931 ; and A General History of Oregon, 1935. He