Son of John Hailey & Louisa Griffin, married Maud Beach. Occupation Attorney at Law & Judge, cause of death Sarcoma of the Lymphatic Glands.
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Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. 1893. p. 279.
THOMAS G. HAILEY
The subject of this sketch, was born in La Grande, Union county, Oregon, July 13, 1865, and is the fourth child in a family of six children of the Hon. John Hailey and Louisa M. Hailey, nee Griffin. He comes of the pioneer stock of the State, his father having crossed the plains in 1852, and his mother in company with her father and family, having come to the State in 1848 after a perilous journey across the plains, and settled in southern Oregon. During his infancy Mr. Hailey's parents removed to Boise City, Idaho, where he grew to manhood, and where his father was engaged in staging, stock-raising and divers other pursuits for several years, and was also a member of the Territorial Legislature and twice a delegate to Congress as a Democrat from the Territory of Idaho.
After attending the public schools of his adopted town he decided upon the law as a profession in his early manhood, and entered the law office of Cox & Minor, in Pendleton, Oregon, where he remained for a time, and then entered Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, where he spent two years in the literary department and two years in the law school, from which latter he graduated in 1889, and at once returned to his native State and began the practice of his profession in Pendleton, Oregon, where he now resides and is a member of the law firm of Hailey & Lowell, enterprising and energetic young lawyers, whose business is constantly increasing. Shortly after his return to Pendleton he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State for the Eastern District holding terms at Pendleton, which position he still holds and has filled with satisfaction to the bar and public.
In July, 1892, he was married to Miss Maud L. Beach, of Ackley, Iowa. He is thoroughly identified with the social, business and all other interests of his town, and zealous in the promotion of its prosperity. Devoted to his profession and impressed with its dignity and importance he studiously pursues his way, and with his strong personality and mental energy cannot fail to impress himself forcibly upon his generation.
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An illustrated history of Umatilla County, Spokane, Wash.: W.H. Lever, 1902, 650 pages, pp. 356-357
THOMAS G. HAILEY
Thomas G. Hailey, the present district attorney of the sixth judicial district of the state of Oregon, is a native of eastern Oregon, having been born at Lagrande, Union county, Oregon, July 13, 1865, of pioneer parents. His father, Hon. John Hailey, of Idaho, a native of Tennessee, crossed the plains to Oregon City in 1853, and later settled in southern Oregon, where he met and married Louisa M. Griffin, a native of Kentucky, who had come to Oregon in 1848 with her father, Capt. Burrel B. Griffin, a great lover of fine stock and who brought with him his thoroughbred horses, on one of which his daughter Louisa had ridden the long trip across the plains and deserts to their new western home near Jacksonville, in southern Oregon.
The subject of this sketch is the third son of his parents, and when he was about six months old they removed to Idaho temporarily, but returned to Oregon and lived for some time at The Dalles while his father was operating stage lines from Oregon into Idaho. Later large business interests caused a removal to Idaho, where the family home was established at Boise City, in the private and public schools of which city their son received his early education and preparation for college. His vacations were spent on the farms and ranches of his father and on the ranges where his father had large herds of horses and sheep. In the fall of 1884 he entered the law office of Cox & Minor, of Pendleton, Oregon, as a law student and clerk, where he remained about one year and then went east with his father, then serving his second term in congress as a delegate from the territory of Idaho, and entered Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, where he spent four years in the collegiate and law departments, graduating from the latter in June, 1889, with the degree of Doctor of Laws. During his college career he was prominent in all literary and social life of the institution and occupied many positions of honor and trust and won important college honors.
After graduation he returned to his home in Idaho, but was soon requested by his former tutors, Cox & Minor, of Pendleton, Oregon, to again enter their office, and did so on July 13, 1889, and remained with them until their removal to Portland on January 1, 1890. While with this firm of excellent lawyers and most estimable gentlemen he acquired considerable experience from their large practice and laid the foundations for the splendid practice he now enjoys. In the fall of 1889 he was appointed by Chief Justice Thayer clerk of the supreme court of the state for the Eastern District, holding terms at Pendleton, and held the position for over three years. His practice continued to grow, and on July 13, 1892, he married Miss Maud L. Beach, of Iowa, and they now have two bright little daughters, Genevieve and Elizabeth, to grace their pleasant home overlooking the city of Pendleton on the north bank of the Umatilla river.
In August, 1892, he was appointed deputy district attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in Umatilla county, and about the same time formed a law partnership with Stephen A. Lowell, under the firm name of Hailey & Lowell, which continued until October, 1895, when Mr. Lowell was appointed circuit judge of the Sixth Judicial District upon the resignation of Judge James A. Fee. He then formed a partnership with Judge Fee, Charles H. Carter and John L. Austin, with offices in Pendleton and also in Union, Union county, Oregon. Since the dissolution of this firm he has practiced alone with the exception of a short time when he was associated with ex-Judge John J. Balleray, and has always had an extensive practice.
In the spring of 1896 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for the office of circuit judge, but was defeated by his former law partner, Judge Lowell, then holding the office, in a three-cornered contest. In the spring of 1900 he was again nominated by his party, but this time for the office of district attorney of the Sixth Judicial District, and was elected over his former law partner, ex-Judge James A. Fee, the Republican nominee, carrying both counties of the district. Mr. Hailey's practice has been large and varied and he has been signally successful in his profession, to which he is most ardently devoted, being at all times a lawyer and a student who takes a pride and delight in his professional work. With all his cares and duties as a lawyer he still takes time to interest himself and others in the welfare of his community and in the general progress of the state, and served four years acceptably as one of the directors of the Pendleton public school, and at the urgent requests of his friends he became the unopposed candidate for mayor of Pendleton, and on December 2, 1901, he was unanimously elected to a two-years term, thus insuring excellent execution in the government of the city. --------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Trails, Vol 7, No. 3, Spring 1983, Umatilla County Historical Society, Pendleton
(This is apparently from a list of street names in Pendleton)
"HAILEY -- This street was once called Tustin. Thomas G. Hailey was a lawyer, mayor and son of the early-day stage line owner. In 1905 he was appointed to the State Supreme Court by Governor Chamberlain. Serving as district attorney in 1902, he received the small salary of $250 per month. Earlier in 1902 he had been elected as reform mayor in an effort to curb the taking of protection money from gamblers and prostitutes. During the Willow Creek flood in Heppner he was said to have gone there with $1570 of his own money for the aid of the flood-stricken residents."
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The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, March 16, 1908
"JUDGE HAILEY DEAD
Former Justice of State Supreme Court Passes Away.
WAS NATIVE OF OREGON
Widely-Known Lawyer and Democratic Leader Fails to Rally From the Shock of Recent Surgical Operation
Judge Thomas G. Hailey, former Justice of the State Supreme Court, and one of the leading Democratic lawyers of the state, died shortly before 12 o'clock last night at his home, 835 Marshall street, at the age of 43 years, having failed to rally from the shock of a surgical operation performed at a local hospital recently. Judge Hailey was a native of Oregon and was widely known in both this state and in Idaho, where he spent his boyhood.
Thomas Griffin Hailey, was the son of John Hailey, who was formerly delegate in Congress from Idaho, and Lucinda (sic) Griffin Hailey, and was born at La Grande, Or., July 13, 1865. His parents removed to Idaho during his early childhood and he was reared and educated at Boise. He received his legal training in the office of Cox & Minor at Pendleton, Or., and in the Law Department of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. In 1889 he opened an office for himself in Pendleton and continued in the practice of his profession in that city until the Winter of 1905, when he removed to Salem to fill by gubernatorial appointment the place on the Supreme bench of the state, made vacant by the transfer of Judge Wolverton to the Federal Court.
He was for a year a member of the law firm of Fee, Carter, Hailey & Austin, with offices at Pendleton and Union, Or., and later became a partner of the late John J. Balleray, of Pendleton. From 1892 and until 1895, and again from 1902 until he left Pendleton, he was a partner of Stephen A. Lowell. By all the men thus associated with him he was regarded as a lawyer of marked ability, both as an adviser and advocate, and his work as member of the Supreme Court during the year that he was a member of it indicated that he was a jurist of high character.
In politics Judge Hailey was a Democrat, and as such was District Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District from 1900 to 1904, and during a part of that time was Mayor of the city of Pendleton, declining re-election to both offices. In both these positions he was an official who recognized the binding force of his oath of office and he administered all laws full and impartially.
His term as supreme judge expired early in 1907 and he ran for election on the Democratic ticket but was defeated. He then became a member of the firm of Chamberlain, Thomas & Hailey, and located in Portland, where he was rapidly making friends and building up a large practice when his health failed.
He was a man of broad vision and public spirit, always interested in the development of the state, and his influence was invariably thrown on the side of poitical decency and civic righteousness. He was a life-long communicant of the Episcopal Church and a valued member of its councils.
Judge Hailey was married in 1892 to Maud L. Beach, of Ackley, Iowa, who, with their two children, Geneveive (sic) and Elizabeth, survive him. His domestic life was most happy. With a gifted and devoted wife and two young daughters his home was ideal in its charm.
Judge Hailey's father, John Hailey, Jr., a brother, both of Boise, Idaho, were at Judge Hailey's bedside with Mrs. Hailey when death came. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made."
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The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, April 5, 1908
"TRIBUTE TO JUDGE HAILEY
Oregon Bar Adopts Resolutions of Respect.
Friends Eulogize Deceased Jurist as a Citizen, Lawyer, Judge, Husband and Father.
Scores of lawyers and friends of the late Judge Thomas G. Hailey attended a special meeting of the State Bar Association held at the Courthouse yesterday forenoon for the purpose of adopting a suitable memorial of the distinguished Oregon jurist. The committee lately appointed to draft a memorial was ready with that document and it was adopted without change after being read by Governor Chamberlain, chairman of the committee.
Eulogies of Judge Hailey were presented by W. D. Fenton, Judge E. C. Bronaugh and Judge Thomas O'Day, following the reading of the memorial. That document, after recording a brief history of Judge Hailey's life, took up his career as a public servant and summarizd his many good qualities as a man and as a jurist. The memorial concludes as follows:
He came from sturdy pioneer parents, his father, Hon. John Hailey, having operated one of the earliest stage lines in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah, and later having served as an honored member of Congress from Idaho. Both parents survive him, loved and honored by all who know them. From them the subject of this memorial inherited a strong mind, a splendid character, and an integrity of purpose which won him success in whatever he undertook to do.
As a student, he was loved by teacher and pupil alike, and his college life soon won a first place for his diligence and his conscientious work. As a lawyer, he was studious and ambitious to occupy an exalted position in the profession, and by a strict observance of its ethics, won the respect of the bench and bar. As a judge he was disposed at all times to brush aside technicalities and to reach a conclusion which the law and the facts fully justified and warranted. As a public official, in whatever capacity he served the people, he was upright, fearless and honest. In his domestic life he was a model husband and father, and as a friend, faithful in all things and willing to sacrifice his own interests to promote the welfair of those whom he loved. In his death the state has lost a splendid citizen, the bench and bar one of its brightest ornaments, his family an indulgent husband and father, and his friends a loyal and lovable companion.
Your committee therefore beg leave to suggest that the foregoing memorial be spread upon the records of this court in token of the appreciation of the bench and bar of the services of Thomas Griffin Hailey to his state, and that a copy thereof, under the seal of the court, be forwarded to his family.
The committee was made up of Governor Chamberlain, Judge R. S. Bean, Judge S. A. Lowell, Judge Will R. King, and Wirt Minor."
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Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. 1893. p. 279.
THOMAS G. HAILEY
The subject of this sketch, was born in La Grande, Union county, Oregon, July 13, 1865, and is the fourth child in a family of six children of the Hon. John Hailey and Louisa M. Hailey, nee Griffin. He comes of the pioneer stock of the State, his father having crossed the plains in 1852, and his mother in company with her father and family, having come to the State in 1848 after a perilous journey across the plains, and settled in southern Oregon. During his infancy Mr. Hailey's parents removed to Boise City, Idaho, where he grew to manhood, and where his father was engaged in staging, stock-raising and divers other pursuits for several years, and was also a member of the Territorial Legislature and twice a delegate to Congress as a Democrat from the Territory of Idaho.
After attending the public schools of his adopted town he decided upon the law as a profession in his early manhood, and entered the law office of Cox & Minor, in Pendleton, Oregon, where he remained for a time, and then entered Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, where he spent two years in the literary department and two years in the law school, from which latter he graduated in 1889, and at once returned to his native State and began the practice of his profession in Pendleton, Oregon, where he now resides and is a member of the law firm of Hailey & Lowell, enterprising and energetic young lawyers, whose business is constantly increasing. Shortly after his return to Pendleton he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State for the Eastern District holding terms at Pendleton, which position he still holds and has filled with satisfaction to the bar and public.
In July, 1892, he was married to Miss Maud L. Beach, of Ackley, Iowa. He is thoroughly identified with the social, business and all other interests of his town, and zealous in the promotion of its prosperity. Devoted to his profession and impressed with its dignity and importance he studiously pursues his way, and with his strong personality and mental energy cannot fail to impress himself forcibly upon his generation.
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An illustrated history of Umatilla County, Spokane, Wash.: W.H. Lever, 1902, 650 pages, pp. 356-357
THOMAS G. HAILEY
Thomas G. Hailey, the present district attorney of the sixth judicial district of the state of Oregon, is a native of eastern Oregon, having been born at Lagrande, Union county, Oregon, July 13, 1865, of pioneer parents. His father, Hon. John Hailey, of Idaho, a native of Tennessee, crossed the plains to Oregon City in 1853, and later settled in southern Oregon, where he met and married Louisa M. Griffin, a native of Kentucky, who had come to Oregon in 1848 with her father, Capt. Burrel B. Griffin, a great lover of fine stock and who brought with him his thoroughbred horses, on one of which his daughter Louisa had ridden the long trip across the plains and deserts to their new western home near Jacksonville, in southern Oregon.
The subject of this sketch is the third son of his parents, and when he was about six months old they removed to Idaho temporarily, but returned to Oregon and lived for some time at The Dalles while his father was operating stage lines from Oregon into Idaho. Later large business interests caused a removal to Idaho, where the family home was established at Boise City, in the private and public schools of which city their son received his early education and preparation for college. His vacations were spent on the farms and ranches of his father and on the ranges where his father had large herds of horses and sheep. In the fall of 1884 he entered the law office of Cox & Minor, of Pendleton, Oregon, as a law student and clerk, where he remained about one year and then went east with his father, then serving his second term in congress as a delegate from the territory of Idaho, and entered Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, where he spent four years in the collegiate and law departments, graduating from the latter in June, 1889, with the degree of Doctor of Laws. During his college career he was prominent in all literary and social life of the institution and occupied many positions of honor and trust and won important college honors.
After graduation he returned to his home in Idaho, but was soon requested by his former tutors, Cox & Minor, of Pendleton, Oregon, to again enter their office, and did so on July 13, 1889, and remained with them until their removal to Portland on January 1, 1890. While with this firm of excellent lawyers and most estimable gentlemen he acquired considerable experience from their large practice and laid the foundations for the splendid practice he now enjoys. In the fall of 1889 he was appointed by Chief Justice Thayer clerk of the supreme court of the state for the Eastern District, holding terms at Pendleton, and held the position for over three years. His practice continued to grow, and on July 13, 1892, he married Miss Maud L. Beach, of Iowa, and they now have two bright little daughters, Genevieve and Elizabeth, to grace their pleasant home overlooking the city of Pendleton on the north bank of the Umatilla river.
In August, 1892, he was appointed deputy district attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in Umatilla county, and about the same time formed a law partnership with Stephen A. Lowell, under the firm name of Hailey & Lowell, which continued until October, 1895, when Mr. Lowell was appointed circuit judge of the Sixth Judicial District upon the resignation of Judge James A. Fee. He then formed a partnership with Judge Fee, Charles H. Carter and John L. Austin, with offices in Pendleton and also in Union, Union county, Oregon. Since the dissolution of this firm he has practiced alone with the exception of a short time when he was associated with ex-Judge John J. Balleray, and has always had an extensive practice.
In the spring of 1896 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for the office of circuit judge, but was defeated by his former law partner, Judge Lowell, then holding the office, in a three-cornered contest. In the spring of 1900 he was again nominated by his party, but this time for the office of district attorney of the Sixth Judicial District, and was elected over his former law partner, ex-Judge James A. Fee, the Republican nominee, carrying both counties of the district. Mr. Hailey's practice has been large and varied and he has been signally successful in his profession, to which he is most ardently devoted, being at all times a lawyer and a student who takes a pride and delight in his professional work. With all his cares and duties as a lawyer he still takes time to interest himself and others in the welfare of his community and in the general progress of the state, and served four years acceptably as one of the directors of the Pendleton public school, and at the urgent requests of his friends he became the unopposed candidate for mayor of Pendleton, and on December 2, 1901, he was unanimously elected to a two-years term, thus insuring excellent execution in the government of the city. --------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Trails, Vol 7, No. 3, Spring 1983, Umatilla County Historical Society, Pendleton
(This is apparently from a list of street names in Pendleton)
"HAILEY -- This street was once called Tustin. Thomas G. Hailey was a lawyer, mayor and son of the early-day stage line owner. In 1905 he was appointed to the State Supreme Court by Governor Chamberlain. Serving as district attorney in 1902, he received the small salary of $250 per month. Earlier in 1902 he had been elected as reform mayor in an effort to curb the taking of protection money from gamblers and prostitutes. During the Willow Creek flood in Heppner he was said to have gone there with $1570 of his own money for the aid of the flood-stricken residents."
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The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, March 16, 1908
"JUDGE HAILEY DEAD
Former Justice of State Supreme Court Passes Away.
WAS NATIVE OF OREGON
Widely-Known Lawyer and Democratic Leader Fails to Rally From the Shock of Recent Surgical Operation
Judge Thomas G. Hailey, former Justice of the State Supreme Court, and one of the leading Democratic lawyers of the state, died shortly before 12 o'clock last night at his home, 835 Marshall street, at the age of 43 years, having failed to rally from the shock of a surgical operation performed at a local hospital recently. Judge Hailey was a native of Oregon and was widely known in both this state and in Idaho, where he spent his boyhood.
Thomas Griffin Hailey, was the son of John Hailey, who was formerly delegate in Congress from Idaho, and Lucinda (sic) Griffin Hailey, and was born at La Grande, Or., July 13, 1865. His parents removed to Idaho during his early childhood and he was reared and educated at Boise. He received his legal training in the office of Cox & Minor at Pendleton, Or., and in the Law Department of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. In 1889 he opened an office for himself in Pendleton and continued in the practice of his profession in that city until the Winter of 1905, when he removed to Salem to fill by gubernatorial appointment the place on the Supreme bench of the state, made vacant by the transfer of Judge Wolverton to the Federal Court.
He was for a year a member of the law firm of Fee, Carter, Hailey & Austin, with offices at Pendleton and Union, Or., and later became a partner of the late John J. Balleray, of Pendleton. From 1892 and until 1895, and again from 1902 until he left Pendleton, he was a partner of Stephen A. Lowell. By all the men thus associated with him he was regarded as a lawyer of marked ability, both as an adviser and advocate, and his work as member of the Supreme Court during the year that he was a member of it indicated that he was a jurist of high character.
In politics Judge Hailey was a Democrat, and as such was District Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District from 1900 to 1904, and during a part of that time was Mayor of the city of Pendleton, declining re-election to both offices. In both these positions he was an official who recognized the binding force of his oath of office and he administered all laws full and impartially.
His term as supreme judge expired early in 1907 and he ran for election on the Democratic ticket but was defeated. He then became a member of the firm of Chamberlain, Thomas & Hailey, and located in Portland, where he was rapidly making friends and building up a large practice when his health failed.
He was a man of broad vision and public spirit, always interested in the development of the state, and his influence was invariably thrown on the side of poitical decency and civic righteousness. He was a life-long communicant of the Episcopal Church and a valued member of its councils.
Judge Hailey was married in 1892 to Maud L. Beach, of Ackley, Iowa, who, with their two children, Geneveive (sic) and Elizabeth, survive him. His domestic life was most happy. With a gifted and devoted wife and two young daughters his home was ideal in its charm.
Judge Hailey's father, John Hailey, Jr., a brother, both of Boise, Idaho, were at Judge Hailey's bedside with Mrs. Hailey when death came. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made."
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The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, April 5, 1908
"TRIBUTE TO JUDGE HAILEY
Oregon Bar Adopts Resolutions of Respect.
Friends Eulogize Deceased Jurist as a Citizen, Lawyer, Judge, Husband and Father.
Scores of lawyers and friends of the late Judge Thomas G. Hailey attended a special meeting of the State Bar Association held at the Courthouse yesterday forenoon for the purpose of adopting a suitable memorial of the distinguished Oregon jurist. The committee lately appointed to draft a memorial was ready with that document and it was adopted without change after being read by Governor Chamberlain, chairman of the committee.
Eulogies of Judge Hailey were presented by W. D. Fenton, Judge E. C. Bronaugh and Judge Thomas O'Day, following the reading of the memorial. That document, after recording a brief history of Judge Hailey's life, took up his career as a public servant and summarizd his many good qualities as a man and as a jurist. The memorial concludes as follows:
He came from sturdy pioneer parents, his father, Hon. John Hailey, having operated one of the earliest stage lines in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah, and later having served as an honored member of Congress from Idaho. Both parents survive him, loved and honored by all who know them. From them the subject of this memorial inherited a strong mind, a splendid character, and an integrity of purpose which won him success in whatever he undertook to do.
As a student, he was loved by teacher and pupil alike, and his college life soon won a first place for his diligence and his conscientious work. As a lawyer, he was studious and ambitious to occupy an exalted position in the profession, and by a strict observance of its ethics, won the respect of the bench and bar. As a judge he was disposed at all times to brush aside technicalities and to reach a conclusion which the law and the facts fully justified and warranted. As a public official, in whatever capacity he served the people, he was upright, fearless and honest. In his domestic life he was a model husband and father, and as a friend, faithful in all things and willing to sacrifice his own interests to promote the welfair of those whom he loved. In his death the state has lost a splendid citizen, the bench and bar one of its brightest ornaments, his family an indulgent husband and father, and his friends a loyal and lovable companion.
Your committee therefore beg leave to suggest that the foregoing memorial be spread upon the records of this court in token of the appreciation of the bench and bar of the services of Thomas Griffin Hailey to his state, and that a copy thereof, under the seal of the court, be forwarded to his family.
The committee was made up of Governor Chamberlain, Judge R. S. Bean, Judge S. A. Lowell, Judge Will R. King, and Wirt Minor."
Son of John Hailey & Louisa Griffin, married Maud Beach. Occupation Attorney at Law & Judge, cause of death Sarcoma of the Lymphatic Glands.
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Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. 1893. p. 279.
THOMAS G. HAILEY
The subject of this sketch, was born in La Grande, Union county, Oregon, July 13, 1865, and is the fourth child in a family of six children of the Hon. John Hailey and Louisa M. Hailey, nee Griffin. He comes of the pioneer stock of the State, his father having crossed the plains in 1852, and his mother in company with her father and family, having come to the State in 1848 after a perilous journey across the plains, and settled in southern Oregon. During his infancy Mr. Hailey's parents removed to Boise City, Idaho, where he grew to manhood, and where his father was engaged in staging, stock-raising and divers other pursuits for several years, and was also a member of the Territorial Legislature and twice a delegate to Congress as a Democrat from the Territory of Idaho.
After attending the public schools of his adopted town he decided upon the law as a profession in his early manhood, and entered the law office of Cox & Minor, in Pendleton, Oregon, where he remained for a time, and then entered Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, where he spent two years in the literary department and two years in the law school, from which latter he graduated in 1889, and at once returned to his native State and began the practice of his profession in Pendleton, Oregon, where he now resides and is a member of the law firm of Hailey & Lowell, enterprising and energetic young lawyers, whose business is constantly increasing. Shortly after his return to Pendleton he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State for the Eastern District holding terms at Pendleton, which position he still holds and has filled with satisfaction to the bar and public.
In July, 1892, he was married to Miss Maud L. Beach, of Ackley, Iowa. He is thoroughly identified with the social, business and all other interests of his town, and zealous in the promotion of its prosperity. Devoted to his profession and impressed with its dignity and importance he studiously pursues his way, and with his strong personality and mental energy cannot fail to impress himself forcibly upon his generation.
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An illustrated history of Umatilla County, Spokane, Wash.: W.H. Lever, 1902, 650 pages, pp. 356-357
THOMAS G. HAILEY
Thomas G. Hailey, the present district attorney of the sixth judicial district of the state of Oregon, is a native of eastern Oregon, having been born at Lagrande, Union county, Oregon, July 13, 1865, of pioneer parents. His father, Hon. John Hailey, of Idaho, a native of Tennessee, crossed the plains to Oregon City in 1853, and later settled in southern Oregon, where he met and married Louisa M. Griffin, a native of Kentucky, who had come to Oregon in 1848 with her father, Capt. Burrel B. Griffin, a great lover of fine stock and who brought with him his thoroughbred horses, on one of which his daughter Louisa had ridden the long trip across the plains and deserts to their new western home near Jacksonville, in southern Oregon.
The subject of this sketch is the third son of his parents, and when he was about six months old they removed to Idaho temporarily, but returned to Oregon and lived for some time at The Dalles while his father was operating stage lines from Oregon into Idaho. Later large business interests caused a removal to Idaho, where the family home was established at Boise City, in the private and public schools of which city their son received his early education and preparation for college. His vacations were spent on the farms and ranches of his father and on the ranges where his father had large herds of horses and sheep. In the fall of 1884 he entered the law office of Cox & Minor, of Pendleton, Oregon, as a law student and clerk, where he remained about one year and then went east with his father, then serving his second term in congress as a delegate from the territory of Idaho, and entered Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, where he spent four years in the collegiate and law departments, graduating from the latter in June, 1889, with the degree of Doctor of Laws. During his college career he was prominent in all literary and social life of the institution and occupied many positions of honor and trust and won important college honors.
After graduation he returned to his home in Idaho, but was soon requested by his former tutors, Cox & Minor, of Pendleton, Oregon, to again enter their office, and did so on July 13, 1889, and remained with them until their removal to Portland on January 1, 1890. While with this firm of excellent lawyers and most estimable gentlemen he acquired considerable experience from their large practice and laid the foundations for the splendid practice he now enjoys. In the fall of 1889 he was appointed by Chief Justice Thayer clerk of the supreme court of the state for the Eastern District, holding terms at Pendleton, and held the position for over three years. His practice continued to grow, and on July 13, 1892, he married Miss Maud L. Beach, of Iowa, and they now have two bright little daughters, Genevieve and Elizabeth, to grace their pleasant home overlooking the city of Pendleton on the north bank of the Umatilla river.
In August, 1892, he was appointed deputy district attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in Umatilla county, and about the same time formed a law partnership with Stephen A. Lowell, under the firm name of Hailey & Lowell, which continued until October, 1895, when Mr. Lowell was appointed circuit judge of the Sixth Judicial District upon the resignation of Judge James A. Fee. He then formed a partnership with Judge Fee, Charles H. Carter and John L. Austin, with offices in Pendleton and also in Union, Union county, Oregon. Since the dissolution of this firm he has practiced alone with the exception of a short time when he was associated with ex-Judge John J. Balleray, and has always had an extensive practice.
In the spring of 1896 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for the office of circuit judge, but was defeated by his former law partner, Judge Lowell, then holding the office, in a three-cornered contest. In the spring of 1900 he was again nominated by his party, but this time for the office of district attorney of the Sixth Judicial District, and was elected over his former law partner, ex-Judge James A. Fee, the Republican nominee, carrying both counties of the district. Mr. Hailey's practice has been large and varied and he has been signally successful in his profession, to which he is most ardently devoted, being at all times a lawyer and a student who takes a pride and delight in his professional work. With all his cares and duties as a lawyer he still takes time to interest himself and others in the welfare of his community and in the general progress of the state, and served four years acceptably as one of the directors of the Pendleton public school, and at the urgent requests of his friends he became the unopposed candidate for mayor of Pendleton, and on December 2, 1901, he was unanimously elected to a two-years term, thus insuring excellent execution in the government of the city. --------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Trails, Vol 7, No. 3, Spring 1983, Umatilla County Historical Society, Pendleton
(This is apparently from a list of street names in Pendleton)
"HAILEY -- This street was once called Tustin. Thomas G. Hailey was a lawyer, mayor and son of the early-day stage line owner. In 1905 he was appointed to the State Supreme Court by Governor Chamberlain. Serving as district attorney in 1902, he received the small salary of $250 per month. Earlier in 1902 he had been elected as reform mayor in an effort to curb the taking of protection money from gamblers and prostitutes. During the Willow Creek flood in Heppner he was said to have gone there with $1570 of his own money for the aid of the flood-stricken residents."
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The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, March 16, 1908
"JUDGE HAILEY DEAD
Former Justice of State Supreme Court Passes Away.
WAS NATIVE OF OREGON
Widely-Known Lawyer and Democratic Leader Fails to Rally From the Shock of Recent Surgical Operation
Judge Thomas G. Hailey, former Justice of the State Supreme Court, and one of the leading Democratic lawyers of the state, died shortly before 12 o'clock last night at his home, 835 Marshall street, at the age of 43 years, having failed to rally from the shock of a surgical operation performed at a local hospital recently. Judge Hailey was a native of Oregon and was widely known in both this state and in Idaho, where he spent his boyhood.
Thomas Griffin Hailey, was the son of John Hailey, who was formerly delegate in Congress from Idaho, and Lucinda (sic) Griffin Hailey, and was born at La Grande, Or., July 13, 1865. His parents removed to Idaho during his early childhood and he was reared and educated at Boise. He received his legal training in the office of Cox & Minor at Pendleton, Or., and in the Law Department of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. In 1889 he opened an office for himself in Pendleton and continued in the practice of his profession in that city until the Winter of 1905, when he removed to Salem to fill by gubernatorial appointment the place on the Supreme bench of the state, made vacant by the transfer of Judge Wolverton to the Federal Court.
He was for a year a member of the law firm of Fee, Carter, Hailey & Austin, with offices at Pendleton and Union, Or., and later became a partner of the late John J. Balleray, of Pendleton. From 1892 and until 1895, and again from 1902 until he left Pendleton, he was a partner of Stephen A. Lowell. By all the men thus associated with him he was regarded as a lawyer of marked ability, both as an adviser and advocate, and his work as member of the Supreme Court during the year that he was a member of it indicated that he was a jurist of high character.
In politics Judge Hailey was a Democrat, and as such was District Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District from 1900 to 1904, and during a part of that time was Mayor of the city of Pendleton, declining re-election to both offices. In both these positions he was an official who recognized the binding force of his oath of office and he administered all laws full and impartially.
His term as supreme judge expired early in 1907 and he ran for election on the Democratic ticket but was defeated. He then became a member of the firm of Chamberlain, Thomas & Hailey, and located in Portland, where he was rapidly making friends and building up a large practice when his health failed.
He was a man of broad vision and public spirit, always interested in the development of the state, and his influence was invariably thrown on the side of poitical decency and civic righteousness. He was a life-long communicant of the Episcopal Church and a valued member of its councils.
Judge Hailey was married in 1892 to Maud L. Beach, of Ackley, Iowa, who, with their two children, Geneveive (sic) and Elizabeth, survive him. His domestic life was most happy. With a gifted and devoted wife and two young daughters his home was ideal in its charm.
Judge Hailey's father, John Hailey, Jr., a brother, both of Boise, Idaho, were at Judge Hailey's bedside with Mrs. Hailey when death came. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made."
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The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, April 5, 1908
"TRIBUTE TO JUDGE HAILEY
Oregon Bar Adopts Resolutions of Respect.
Friends Eulogize Deceased Jurist as a Citizen, Lawyer, Judge, Husband and Father.
Scores of lawyers and friends of the late Judge Thomas G. Hailey attended a special meeting of the State Bar Association held at the Courthouse yesterday forenoon for the purpose of adopting a suitable memorial of the distinguished Oregon jurist. The committee lately appointed to draft a memorial was ready with that document and it was adopted without change after being read by Governor Chamberlain, chairman of the committee.
Eulogies of Judge Hailey were presented by W. D. Fenton, Judge E. C. Bronaugh and Judge Thomas O'Day, following the reading of the memorial. That document, after recording a brief history of Judge Hailey's life, took up his career as a public servant and summarizd his many good qualities as a man and as a jurist. The memorial concludes as follows:
He came from sturdy pioneer parents, his father, Hon. John Hailey, having operated one of the earliest stage lines in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah, and later having served as an honored member of Congress from Idaho. Both parents survive him, loved and honored by all who know them. From them the subject of this memorial inherited a strong mind, a splendid character, and an integrity of purpose which won him success in whatever he undertook to do.
As a student, he was loved by teacher and pupil alike, and his college life soon won a first place for his diligence and his conscientious work. As a lawyer, he was studious and ambitious to occupy an exalted position in the profession, and by a strict observance of its ethics, won the respect of the bench and bar. As a judge he was disposed at all times to brush aside technicalities and to reach a conclusion which the law and the facts fully justified and warranted. As a public official, in whatever capacity he served the people, he was upright, fearless and honest. In his domestic life he was a model husband and father, and as a friend, faithful in all things and willing to sacrifice his own interests to promote the welfair of those whom he loved. In his death the state has lost a splendid citizen, the bench and bar one of its brightest ornaments, his family an indulgent husband and father, and his friends a loyal and lovable companion.
Your committee therefore beg leave to suggest that the foregoing memorial be spread upon the records of this court in token of the appreciation of the bench and bar of the services of Thomas Griffin Hailey to his state, and that a copy thereof, under the seal of the court, be forwarded to his family.
The committee was made up of Governor Chamberlain, Judge R. S. Bean, Judge S. A. Lowell, Judge Will R. King, and Wirt Minor."
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Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. 1893. p. 279.
THOMAS G. HAILEY
The subject of this sketch, was born in La Grande, Union county, Oregon, July 13, 1865, and is the fourth child in a family of six children of the Hon. John Hailey and Louisa M. Hailey, nee Griffin. He comes of the pioneer stock of the State, his father having crossed the plains in 1852, and his mother in company with her father and family, having come to the State in 1848 after a perilous journey across the plains, and settled in southern Oregon. During his infancy Mr. Hailey's parents removed to Boise City, Idaho, where he grew to manhood, and where his father was engaged in staging, stock-raising and divers other pursuits for several years, and was also a member of the Territorial Legislature and twice a delegate to Congress as a Democrat from the Territory of Idaho.
After attending the public schools of his adopted town he decided upon the law as a profession in his early manhood, and entered the law office of Cox & Minor, in Pendleton, Oregon, where he remained for a time, and then entered Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, where he spent two years in the literary department and two years in the law school, from which latter he graduated in 1889, and at once returned to his native State and began the practice of his profession in Pendleton, Oregon, where he now resides and is a member of the law firm of Hailey & Lowell, enterprising and energetic young lawyers, whose business is constantly increasing. Shortly after his return to Pendleton he was appointed Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State for the Eastern District holding terms at Pendleton, which position he still holds and has filled with satisfaction to the bar and public.
In July, 1892, he was married to Miss Maud L. Beach, of Ackley, Iowa. He is thoroughly identified with the social, business and all other interests of his town, and zealous in the promotion of its prosperity. Devoted to his profession and impressed with its dignity and importance he studiously pursues his way, and with his strong personality and mental energy cannot fail to impress himself forcibly upon his generation.
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An illustrated history of Umatilla County, Spokane, Wash.: W.H. Lever, 1902, 650 pages, pp. 356-357
THOMAS G. HAILEY
Thomas G. Hailey, the present district attorney of the sixth judicial district of the state of Oregon, is a native of eastern Oregon, having been born at Lagrande, Union county, Oregon, July 13, 1865, of pioneer parents. His father, Hon. John Hailey, of Idaho, a native of Tennessee, crossed the plains to Oregon City in 1853, and later settled in southern Oregon, where he met and married Louisa M. Griffin, a native of Kentucky, who had come to Oregon in 1848 with her father, Capt. Burrel B. Griffin, a great lover of fine stock and who brought with him his thoroughbred horses, on one of which his daughter Louisa had ridden the long trip across the plains and deserts to their new western home near Jacksonville, in southern Oregon.
The subject of this sketch is the third son of his parents, and when he was about six months old they removed to Idaho temporarily, but returned to Oregon and lived for some time at The Dalles while his father was operating stage lines from Oregon into Idaho. Later large business interests caused a removal to Idaho, where the family home was established at Boise City, in the private and public schools of which city their son received his early education and preparation for college. His vacations were spent on the farms and ranches of his father and on the ranges where his father had large herds of horses and sheep. In the fall of 1884 he entered the law office of Cox & Minor, of Pendleton, Oregon, as a law student and clerk, where he remained about one year and then went east with his father, then serving his second term in congress as a delegate from the territory of Idaho, and entered Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Virginia, where he spent four years in the collegiate and law departments, graduating from the latter in June, 1889, with the degree of Doctor of Laws. During his college career he was prominent in all literary and social life of the institution and occupied many positions of honor and trust and won important college honors.
After graduation he returned to his home in Idaho, but was soon requested by his former tutors, Cox & Minor, of Pendleton, Oregon, to again enter their office, and did so on July 13, 1889, and remained with them until their removal to Portland on January 1, 1890. While with this firm of excellent lawyers and most estimable gentlemen he acquired considerable experience from their large practice and laid the foundations for the splendid practice he now enjoys. In the fall of 1889 he was appointed by Chief Justice Thayer clerk of the supreme court of the state for the Eastern District, holding terms at Pendleton, and held the position for over three years. His practice continued to grow, and on July 13, 1892, he married Miss Maud L. Beach, of Iowa, and they now have two bright little daughters, Genevieve and Elizabeth, to grace their pleasant home overlooking the city of Pendleton on the north bank of the Umatilla river.
In August, 1892, he was appointed deputy district attorney for the Sixth Judicial District in Umatilla county, and about the same time formed a law partnership with Stephen A. Lowell, under the firm name of Hailey & Lowell, which continued until October, 1895, when Mr. Lowell was appointed circuit judge of the Sixth Judicial District upon the resignation of Judge James A. Fee. He then formed a partnership with Judge Fee, Charles H. Carter and John L. Austin, with offices in Pendleton and also in Union, Union county, Oregon. Since the dissolution of this firm he has practiced alone with the exception of a short time when he was associated with ex-Judge John J. Balleray, and has always had an extensive practice.
In the spring of 1896 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket for the office of circuit judge, but was defeated by his former law partner, Judge Lowell, then holding the office, in a three-cornered contest. In the spring of 1900 he was again nominated by his party, but this time for the office of district attorney of the Sixth Judicial District, and was elected over his former law partner, ex-Judge James A. Fee, the Republican nominee, carrying both counties of the district. Mr. Hailey's practice has been large and varied and he has been signally successful in his profession, to which he is most ardently devoted, being at all times a lawyer and a student who takes a pride and delight in his professional work. With all his cares and duties as a lawyer he still takes time to interest himself and others in the welfare of his community and in the general progress of the state, and served four years acceptably as one of the directors of the Pendleton public school, and at the urgent requests of his friends he became the unopposed candidate for mayor of Pendleton, and on December 2, 1901, he was unanimously elected to a two-years term, thus insuring excellent execution in the government of the city. --------------------------------------------------
Pioneer Trails, Vol 7, No. 3, Spring 1983, Umatilla County Historical Society, Pendleton
(This is apparently from a list of street names in Pendleton)
"HAILEY -- This street was once called Tustin. Thomas G. Hailey was a lawyer, mayor and son of the early-day stage line owner. In 1905 he was appointed to the State Supreme Court by Governor Chamberlain. Serving as district attorney in 1902, he received the small salary of $250 per month. Earlier in 1902 he had been elected as reform mayor in an effort to curb the taking of protection money from gamblers and prostitutes. During the Willow Creek flood in Heppner he was said to have gone there with $1570 of his own money for the aid of the flood-stricken residents."
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The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, March 16, 1908
"JUDGE HAILEY DEAD
Former Justice of State Supreme Court Passes Away.
WAS NATIVE OF OREGON
Widely-Known Lawyer and Democratic Leader Fails to Rally From the Shock of Recent Surgical Operation
Judge Thomas G. Hailey, former Justice of the State Supreme Court, and one of the leading Democratic lawyers of the state, died shortly before 12 o'clock last night at his home, 835 Marshall street, at the age of 43 years, having failed to rally from the shock of a surgical operation performed at a local hospital recently. Judge Hailey was a native of Oregon and was widely known in both this state and in Idaho, where he spent his boyhood.
Thomas Griffin Hailey, was the son of John Hailey, who was formerly delegate in Congress from Idaho, and Lucinda (sic) Griffin Hailey, and was born at La Grande, Or., July 13, 1865. His parents removed to Idaho during his early childhood and he was reared and educated at Boise. He received his legal training in the office of Cox & Minor at Pendleton, Or., and in the Law Department of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. In 1889 he opened an office for himself in Pendleton and continued in the practice of his profession in that city until the Winter of 1905, when he removed to Salem to fill by gubernatorial appointment the place on the Supreme bench of the state, made vacant by the transfer of Judge Wolverton to the Federal Court.
He was for a year a member of the law firm of Fee, Carter, Hailey & Austin, with offices at Pendleton and Union, Or., and later became a partner of the late John J. Balleray, of Pendleton. From 1892 and until 1895, and again from 1902 until he left Pendleton, he was a partner of Stephen A. Lowell. By all the men thus associated with him he was regarded as a lawyer of marked ability, both as an adviser and advocate, and his work as member of the Supreme Court during the year that he was a member of it indicated that he was a jurist of high character.
In politics Judge Hailey was a Democrat, and as such was District Attorney for the Sixth Judicial District from 1900 to 1904, and during a part of that time was Mayor of the city of Pendleton, declining re-election to both offices. In both these positions he was an official who recognized the binding force of his oath of office and he administered all laws full and impartially.
His term as supreme judge expired early in 1907 and he ran for election on the Democratic ticket but was defeated. He then became a member of the firm of Chamberlain, Thomas & Hailey, and located in Portland, where he was rapidly making friends and building up a large practice when his health failed.
He was a man of broad vision and public spirit, always interested in the development of the state, and his influence was invariably thrown on the side of poitical decency and civic righteousness. He was a life-long communicant of the Episcopal Church and a valued member of its councils.
Judge Hailey was married in 1892 to Maud L. Beach, of Ackley, Iowa, who, with their two children, Geneveive (sic) and Elizabeth, survive him. His domestic life was most happy. With a gifted and devoted wife and two young daughters his home was ideal in its charm.
Judge Hailey's father, John Hailey, Jr., a brother, both of Boise, Idaho, were at Judge Hailey's bedside with Mrs. Hailey when death came. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made."
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The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, April 5, 1908
"TRIBUTE TO JUDGE HAILEY
Oregon Bar Adopts Resolutions of Respect.
Friends Eulogize Deceased Jurist as a Citizen, Lawyer, Judge, Husband and Father.
Scores of lawyers and friends of the late Judge Thomas G. Hailey attended a special meeting of the State Bar Association held at the Courthouse yesterday forenoon for the purpose of adopting a suitable memorial of the distinguished Oregon jurist. The committee lately appointed to draft a memorial was ready with that document and it was adopted without change after being read by Governor Chamberlain, chairman of the committee.
Eulogies of Judge Hailey were presented by W. D. Fenton, Judge E. C. Bronaugh and Judge Thomas O'Day, following the reading of the memorial. That document, after recording a brief history of Judge Hailey's life, took up his career as a public servant and summarizd his many good qualities as a man and as a jurist. The memorial concludes as follows:
He came from sturdy pioneer parents, his father, Hon. John Hailey, having operated one of the earliest stage lines in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah, and later having served as an honored member of Congress from Idaho. Both parents survive him, loved and honored by all who know them. From them the subject of this memorial inherited a strong mind, a splendid character, and an integrity of purpose which won him success in whatever he undertook to do.
As a student, he was loved by teacher and pupil alike, and his college life soon won a first place for his diligence and his conscientious work. As a lawyer, he was studious and ambitious to occupy an exalted position in the profession, and by a strict observance of its ethics, won the respect of the bench and bar. As a judge he was disposed at all times to brush aside technicalities and to reach a conclusion which the law and the facts fully justified and warranted. As a public official, in whatever capacity he served the people, he was upright, fearless and honest. In his domestic life he was a model husband and father, and as a friend, faithful in all things and willing to sacrifice his own interests to promote the welfair of those whom he loved. In his death the state has lost a splendid citizen, the bench and bar one of its brightest ornaments, his family an indulgent husband and father, and his friends a loyal and lovable companion.
Your committee therefore beg leave to suggest that the foregoing memorial be spread upon the records of this court in token of the appreciation of the bench and bar of the services of Thomas Griffin Hailey to his state, and that a copy thereof, under the seal of the court, be forwarded to his family.
The committee was made up of Governor Chamberlain, Judge R. S. Bean, Judge S. A. Lowell, Judge Will R. King, and Wirt Minor."
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