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mitted to practice in the Supreme Court in O.-toher, isns. After IiIh nd- mission he practiced law in Dallas, and in the same year was married to Miss Electa C. Sullivan, eldest daughter of the gentlemaji with whom he studied law, and he has now three children. June, 1S71, lie rem.jved to Lafayette, Yamhill county, where he has since resided. In politic* he is a Republican.

W. W. GIBBS.

This gentleman is a son of ex-Governor Gibbs, and was assistant clerk of the Senate. He is a genial, whole-souled fellow, tall, stout and extremely good-looking, fond of a joke, but never carrying it too far. In his youth he received the benefits of a good education, ha\nng graduated from the Portland Academy, and his teachers have said that his progress in that in- stitution was not because of close application to his books, but rather to his natural ability. After completing his education Will lived the life of the Jolly farmer boy for about five years, and then was called to Portland to accept a position in the county clerk's office, where he remained two years. During all this time he had studied law oflf and on, and waH finally admitted to practice in the Supreme Court October, 1882. Mr. Gibbs, al- though unmarried, is not averse to the ringing of the marriage liell, and we advise him to have a care when leap year dotli come round, for he may im- suspectingly be entrapped by some fair young lady.

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HON. W. S. NEWBURY A member of the legal profession and a citizen of Portland who stands high among his fellow men, was born in Ripley, New York, September- 1!>, ls;54. He received the benefit of a common school education only, l)ut made the most of that. In 1850 he went to Chicago, where he engaged in the occupation of salesman. He returned home in 1853, and in the fall of 1854 he went to Fox Lake, Wisconsin, where he commenced the study of law. In 1856 and 1857, at Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, took a regular course of study in book-keeping, penmanship and commercial law, and af- terwards held several important positions as principal book-keeper ;ind ac- countant. In the fall of 1857 he took a trip for his health, vi.siting St. Louis, New Orleans, Havana and Cuba and New York City, and returned west via Chicago and Madison to St. Paul, Minn., in February, IK.'X, and in the fall or winter of 1858 took entire charge at Sioux City, Iowa, of the business of the Little American Fur Company, of St. Louis, then having trading posts along the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers and their trilm- taries for a distance of 3,000 miles. He remained with this company about a year, and after \dsiting St. Louis, he went to lola, Kansas, in IKCu, and was elected Mayor of that city in 1870. Having meanwhile studieil law, he was admitted to the bar m 1865, and at once commenced the practice of his profession. He served as an officer in the United States Volunteers nearly three years, about one year of which time he was stationed at Fort Ijcaven- worth and about fifteen months he served with the Army of the (Jnraber- land, in both the Twentieth and afterwards the Fourth army corps. He