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 been a director of the Multnomah Law Library and through much of this period has served as its president. Deeply interested in the cause of education, he has labored earnestly to promote the interests of his alma mater and to this end accepted the position of secretary of its finance committee and also became a director of the university. He was at one time president of his alumni association, and he has been vice president of the Portland free kindergarten. His labors have been most effective as a champion of education and he has done much to secure the adoption of high ideals in that field. Aside from his efforts for educational progress and his activity in the field of law practice, he has served as a director of the Columbia & Northwestern Railway extending between the town of Lyle and Klickitat in the state of Washington.

Mr. Smith was married in Washington county, Oregon, in 1881, to Miss Alice Sweek, a native of that county antl a daughter of John and Maria Sweek, who in 1852 came from Missouri to Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are parents of three children, Ruth, Josephine and Marion. Theirs is a hospitable home and the center of a cultured society circle.

Mr. Smith belongs to the Arlington and the University Clubs and also holds membership with the State Bar Association. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and, while he has never been a politician in the sense of office-seeking, he keeps in touch with the issues of the day and is abreast with the best thinking men of the age on sociological and economic ques- tions. His opinions are never hastily formed but are rather the conclusion of deep consideration and earnest thought so that in matters of public concern as well as in the law he is able to give wise and valuable counsel. He is a man of earnest purpose, inflexible in his adherence to what he believes to be right and yet he accords to others the same privilege of honest opinion.

Edward Arthur Baldwin, a Yale and Columbia man, utilizing his powers in the successful conduct of real-estate interests, which have proven of general as well as individual profit, was born in Princeton, Illinois, June 27, 1868, his parents being Charles and Louisa (McArdle) Baldwin. His father, who for many years was a prominent practicing attorney of Princeton, for some time served as a member of the house of representatives in the Illinois legislature. He died in 1881 and was for five years survived by his wife, who passed away in 1886.

After attending the public schools until he had completed the work of the high school, E. A. Baldwin pursued his studies in Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He took a classical course in Yale University and then entered the Columbia University Law School of New York city, graduating with the class of 1889. For five years thereafter he engaged in the practice of law in the eastern metropolis, but, believing that the opportunities of the west were greater for a young man who must establish his place in business, he traveled to the coast country, spending some time in Montana and British Columbia, after which he came to Portland in 1900. Here as an operator in real estate he has remained in business continuously since, and his careful investments, his active promotion of building and real-estate projects have brought him a meas- ure of success that enables him now to live practically retired, giving his at- tention largely to the control of his own properties. He erected the Medical building at the corner of Park and Alder streets in connection with F. O. Down- ing and is also the owner of the Sargent Hotel on the east side.

On the 15th of June, 1900, Mr. Baldwin was married to Miss Grace Booth, of New Haven, Connecticut, a daughter of Theodore and Ellen (Anderson) Booth, the former a wholesale lumber dealer. Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin are mem-