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REPEESENTATIVE MEN OF OREGON.

Judge of the First Judicial District in place of Hon. P. P. Prim, who was appointed Supreme Judge. In 1880 he was nomiuateil and elected as his own successor, and he still occupies the same high anil honorable position. Judge Hanna is a man of rare worth and intelligence. He is remarkably clear-headed and grasps with readiness any knotty problem of law. and is quick in forming an opinion and rendering a decision. None are more in- dependent than himself, and neither fear nor favor control his acts in either public or private life. He believes in calling things by their right names and has the reputation of fearlessness in all he does and says. Socially speaking he is one of the pleasantest men on the bench and has a host of friends. He is full of enterprise, and although nearly tU'ty years of age, has the vim and energy of a man in the very prime of life. He is the per- sonification of integrity and as a jurist is honored and respected. He is married and has three children, one of which is adopted. Judge Hanna is a Past Master Workman of the A. O. U. W. and Past Sachem in the I. O. R. M. He has won a warm corner in the hearts of the people of Southern Oregon, and we bespeak for him many years of usefulness.

HON. O. B. MOORES.

Some men attain the goal of personal or political prominence by reason of their wealth, some because of their knowledge of and recourse to polit- ical trickery, others because of their happy, genial disposition, social qual- ities and facility for making friends, while some, and they are few indeed, are honored with distinction through merit alone. The subject of this sketch has succeeded thus far in life simply because he merited success and at the same time is possessed of those qualifications which tend to make a man popular with the public, viz: industry, energy, ambition and aff"ability, and no young man has brighter prospects for the future or gives better promise of fulfilling the expectations of sincere well-wishers and devoted friends thjjn does Charles B. Moores, the private secretary of His Excel- lency Governor Moody. He is well qualified to discharge the duties and responsibilities of that office by virtue of his long residence in and extensive knowledge of this our commonwealth and his versatility as a correspondent. He is a plain, good-natured, pleasant yoiing gentleman, with whom no cer- emony — like his popular chief— is necessary beyond the common courtesy one gentleman owes to another, and he has already made a host of friends with those who for the first time, perhaps, have had any dealings with him. Mr. Jloores was born in Benton, Missouri, August 6, 1849, and with his parents removed to Danville, Illinois, in 1851. In the spring of 1852 the family removed to Oregon, arriving in Salem in March, 1853. where he has since resided almost contmuously. He was educated at the Willamette University and graduated in the class of 1870. The following week he ac- cepted a situation in the land department of the Oiegou and California Railroad Company at Portland as draughtsman, Avhere he remained four years. He went East in 1874 and attended one course at H. C. Spencer's Business College, in Washington, D. C. He then went to Philadelphia, where he remained one year in attendance at the law department of the