Here is the Biography of Paul Cortland King from Vol. III of the History of Oregon. 1922 Paul Cortland King, attorney at law at Bend, Oregon, was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, in 1875. His ancestors on both sides had lived in that vicinity since 1638, in which year Thomas King and Richard Clarke came to this country. Mr. King is of the ninth generation from Thomas King and of the tenth generation from Richard Clark. Upon arriving in America, Thomas King located in Sudbury Province, Massachusetts, and was soon a prominent and distinguished man of the community. He was a delegate to the general court and upon the outbreak of the Revolution fought gallantly in defense of his adopted country. In all of the wars in which this republic has engaged some of the King family have actively participated. For a short period members of the King family moved to that section of New England which is now New Hampshire, but they soon returned to Massachusetts. William King, the grandfather of Paul Cortland King, made his home in Pennsylvania, but his son, Horace Brigham King, moved back to Massachusetts, so that except for brief periods the King family have lived in the Bay state for nearly three hundred years. The parents of Paul Cortland King were Horace Brigham and Adelaide (Maxson) King and the Maxson family were likewise honorable and distinguished New Englanders, having made their home in Newport, Rhode Island. In the acquirement of an education Paul Cortland King attended the public schools of North Adams, Massachusetts, the high school at Champlain, New York, and later entered New York University. He had decided to engage in the practice of law and with this end in view he enrolled in the law department of the Michigan University, and graduated from that institution with the LL.B. degree in 1899. From 1899 until 1903 he practiced at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and then returning east, engaged in newspaper work, largely to avoid the close confinement of the law office. He again took up the practice of his profession, however, establishing offices in Boston, and in 1919 he located in Bend, Oregon, after traveling by easy stages across the continent in search of an equable climate. I'll finish this in another e-mail so it doesn't get too long. judy