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218 served to prove his ability as a lawyer and he was accorded an extensive clientage. It was found that he was able to cross swords in forensic combat with the ablest lawyers of the northwest, that his preparation of cases was thorough and his presentation sound and logical. Again he was called to the bench when, in 1862, he was elected judge 01 Multnomah county and his services received endorsement the following spring in his reelection.

After retiring from office Judge Marquam refused to take an active interest in politics, concentrating his energies upon his real-estate investments and the management of his property interests. With remarkable prescience he foresaw the growth of Portland, realizing that eventually a large city would spring up here because of the natural advantages caused by its waterways and the fact that it lay in a most rich and productive section of the state. Feeling sure that its commercial and industrial prominence would in time make it a city of metropolitan proportions, and that the property would in consequence continuously increase in value, he purchased real-estate from time to time in Portland and its suburbs and still owns much valuable property here. At one time he became the owner of two hundred and ninety-eight acres known as jMarquam's Hill, constituting one of the most beautiful districts and attractive building sites in the city of Portland. He has since disposed of much of this large tract and his own home still stands upon a portion of it, surrounded by a beautiful lawn. The sale of his property lias brought to him a substantial and gratifying financial return. On the 8th of May, 1853, Mr. Marquam was married to Miss Emma Kern, and unto them were born eleven children, four sons and seven daughters. Mr. Marquam's delight in his success has largely come from the fact that it has enabled him to provide liberally for his family. His political allegiance has ever been given to the republican party and its principles have found in him a stalwart advocate. He has ever been loyal to its interests but has never sacrificed the public weal to partisanship nor the interests of his constituents to self aggrandizement. He has now passed the eighty-eighth milestone on life's journey and his are "the blessed accompaniments of age—honor, riches, troops of friends."

 Clinton Kelly was born in the wilds of Kentucky and grew up as rugged as his native mountains. Reared amid hardships, his labor-scarred hand grasped tha hand of the humblest toiler and caled him brother. He wore the garb of the lowly and his feet trod the byways of the poor; but his was a great soul that held daily converse with his God. If the tide of world-fret ever reached him it left him unrufiBed, for he had a great peace—the peace of God. It would be unseemly to offer him praise; he dwelt in an atmosphere above it. His biography is written in communities where he lived—upon the hearts of the people for whom he labored, but his interest in humanity was not confined to these; it extended to the outermost ledge of this old world of ours, wherever a human soul might be found. His heart was big enough to take in all.

Mr. Kelly was born on Clifty creek, Pulaski county, Kentucky, June 15, 1808. His father, Samuel Kelly, was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, February 7, 1776, and was the third son of Thomas Kelly, whose birth occurred near Philadelphia about 1750. The ancestral home was Castle Kelly, Ballinasloe, County Roscommon. Ireland. When a young man Thomas Kelly ran away from home to avoid being pressed into the English army. He settled in Virginia and about 1800, with his wife, Peggy (Biles) Kelly, and their family, emigrated to Kentucky, settling in Pulaski county, where he died a few years later at the home of his son Samuel on Clifty creek. His wife passed away in 1814.

Samuel Kelly, having arrived at years of maturity, was married September 3, 1807, to Nancy Canada, a neice of General Canada, and they began their domestic