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with quick perceptive faculties, always faultlessly dressed, and every iu^b a gentleman. He is a keen business man and s^firds with zealous care the interests of those he represents. His j,'enial disposition makes him friends everywhere, and it is a safe prediction when we say that he has just caught a glimpse of what Dame Fortune has in store for him wiifui in due time she deals out her favors.

HON JAMES C. FULLERTON,

One of the representative men of Southern Oregon, was boru iu Btitler county, Ohio, December 16, 1848, coming to Oregon with his parents in 1853 and locating on a farm in the Umpqua valley. He was favored only with a common school education. He read law and was admitted to the bar iu 1881. In 1873 he was appointed Receiver of Public Moneys at Rose- burg, the duties of which office he has discharged with such unswerving in- tegrity that he has had no difficulty iu retaining his position up to the pres- ent time. x\s a public officer he has proved court^eous and accommodating, and has made friends with the patrons of the place. He was married in 1874 to Miss Clara Bunnell of Roseburg, their family consisting of one child. He is a prominent member of the A. F. and A. M., Odd Fellown and Work- men. In the former fraternity he holds the position of G. J. W. of the R. W. G. Li. He is tall and slim and quite good-looking, light brown hair, straight and pliable, with a light blonde mustache. His personal appear- ance is on the whole quite prepossessing.

HON. JAMES K. KELLY. The subject of this sketch has held most of the places of honor smd trust at the disposal of the people of this State, and now that old age is oeepiug on it is befitting that he be reHeved of the irksome duties of public life and devote his entire attention to the practice of the high and and honorable profession in which he occupies so prominent a position. He was born in Center county, Penn., in 1819, and until he attained the age of sixteen years his life was spent upon a farm. He entered Princeton College, New Jersey, iu 1837, and graduated in 1839, soon afterwards commenciug the study of law at Carlisle Law School in Pennsylvania under Judge Reed, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He opened an office iu Lewiston, Penn., where he remained until 1849, when he started for Cahfornia via Mexico. He remained in the mines for a short time and came to (Jregou in 1851 and settled at Oregon City. He was appointed one of the Code Commissioners in 1853, and in the same year was elected a member of the Territorial Coimcil, of which he was a member for four years, during which time he was President of the Council two sessions. Hj» was ap- pointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Volunteer Infantry in the Yakima In- dian War of 1855-6. In 1857 he was elected member of the State Con- stitutional Convention from Clackamas county, and in 18(X) was a member of the State Senate. In 1864 he was the Democratic candidate for Con- gress, but was defeated by Hon. J. H. D. Henderson. He was also can-