Oregon Republican League "Bridging the Generations Project 400": ORL Wilson Hume Famil

Oregon Republican League "Bridging the Generations Project 400": ORL Wilson Hume Family

Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 226.

HUME, HON. WILSON T., District Attorney and a leading lawyer of Portland, was born at Placerville, California, October 21, 1859. In his youth, his father being dead, he lived with relatives at New Haven, Connecticut, Lima, Indiana, and Placerville, attending the Placerville Academy and the Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He began life as a stenographer, and as such entered the office of Hon. J. N. Dolph, at Portland, in 1884, and then Dolph & Simon’s office. He was admitted to the bar in 1884, and in 1885 entered the firm of Watson, Hume & Watson. In 1889 he was elected to the legislature, and in 1890 was appointed Assistant District Attorney. In 1892 he was nominated and elected District Attorney, and was re-elected in 1894. He in an able and forceful speaker, both in court and on the platform.

Wilson's parents were John Hume and Martha Tackaberry.

Descendants of John Hume

1 John Hume b: 01 Mar 1825 in Stamford Township, Delaware County, New York d: 13 Aug 1866 in LaGrange County, IN
.. +Martha Tackaberry b: 1839 in Missouri m: 06 Sep 1855 in Placerville, El Dorado County, CA
........ 2 Edward Hume b: 21 Jun 1857 in Placerville, El Dorado Co., CA d: 22 Jun 1858 in Placerville, El Dorado County, CA
........ 2 Wilson Theodore Hume b: 21 Oct 1859 in Placerville, El Dorado County, CA d: 08 Oct 1921 in Portland, OR
............ +Stella ?
........ *2nd Wife of Wilson Theodore Hume:
............ +Emily Oslin Hamilton b: 25 Jan 1863 in Portland, OR m: 24 Dec 1882 in Portland, OR
................... 3 Marguerite Hume b: 31 Oct 1886 in Portland, OR d: 11 Sep 1977 in Atlanta, GA
....................... +Robert Wilson Sears m: 27 Sep 1911 in Portland, OR
............................. 4 Roderick Hamilton Sears b: 29 Oct 1912 in Monterey, CA
................................. +Barbara Tufts Barnes m: 21 May 1938
........................................ 5 Living Sears
............................. 4 David Hume Sears b: 09 Oct 1914 in Honolulu, Hawaii
................................. +Jane Elizabeth Tuttles m: 01 Jan 1941
........................................ 5 Living Sears
........................................ 5 Living Sears
........................................ 5 Living Sears
........................................ 5 Living Sears
........................................ 5 Living Sears
............................. 4 Robert Carver Sears b: 23 Jan 1916 in Honolulu, Hawaii
................................. +Emma Mary Hoch m: 14 Dec 1941 in Atlanta, GA
........................................ 5 Living Sears
............................................ +Living McRae
........................................ 5 Living Sears
........................................ 5 Living Sears
............................................ +Living Tanguy
........................................ 5 Living Sears
................... 3 Katherine Hume b: 04 Jan 1894 in Portland, OR d: 05 Jan 1894 in Los Angeles, CA
........ 2 Robert Alexander Hume b: 16 Sep 1862 in Placerville, CA