Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service
Jump to Forum
Home: Surnames: Eakin Family Genealogy Forum

Post FollowupReturn to Message ListingsPrint Message

Robert Eakin, b. 1848 Illinois to Oregon
Posted by: Tony Larson (ID *****4612) Date: April 01, 2006 at 07:47:41
  of 768

Oregon Republican League:

Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 204.

EAKIN, ROBERT, of Union, was born in Elgin, Illinois, March 15, 1848, and came to Oregon in 1866, locating in Eugene. He attended the Willamette University, graduating in 1874, and the next year was admitted to the bar. The same year he settled in Union County in the practice of his profession. He has been an earnest and influential Republican, and has taken an active part in managing party affairs. He was a delegate to the county convention of 1876, and nearly every subsequent one. He was chairman of the county central committee six years, and a delegate to the state convention in 1884, 1888 and 1892. In 1880 he was nominated for County Judge and in 1882 for District Attorney, and in 1892 for District Judge of the Sixth District. In February, 1895 he was appointed Judge of the Eighth District by Governor Lord. Judge Eakin is a member of the Republican Club at Union.

-Tony Larson


Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:
No followups yet

Post FollowupReturn to Message ListingsPrint Message

http://genforum.genealogy.com/eakin/messages/717.html
Search this forum:

Search all of GenForum:

Proximity matching
Add this forum to My GenForum Link to GenForum
Add Forum
Home |  Help |  About Us |  Site Index |  Jobs |  PRIVACY |  Affiliate
© 2007 The Generations Network