Friday, December 29, 2006

Oregon Republican League: Elder Photos



Oregon Republican League:Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 184.

BOOTHE, J. F. [Editor inserted: J. Franklin Boothe], an attorney of Portland, is a son of A. H. Boothe, a pioneer of 1852, and was born near Salem, May 6, 1857. He graduated from Whitman Seminary in 1876, and then studied law at Walla Walla, being admitted to the bar Washington Territory. He then came to Portland, and in 1888 graduated from the law department of the University of Oregon. He commenced practice in Portland, being three years associated with the late Gilbert J. McGinn. In 1895 he formed a partnership with Wallis Nash. He is an earnest Republican and an active and influential party worker, and was at the last club election unanimously chosen first vice-president of the Sixth Ward Club.

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