OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER.
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water works for 15 years and overseen the
installation of the present pumping plant and
the new filter just put in by the city. Mr.
Howell made his start by buying 12 lots in
MAYOR GRANT B. DIMICK.
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He was born on the A. R. Dimick donation
land claim, 16 miles south of Oregon City,
March 4th, 1869. After receiving his educa
tion at the State Normal at Monmouth, Or
egon, he read law and was admitted to the
bar by the Supreme Court of Oregon, June
1, 1895, and immediately began the practice
of his profession at Oregon City. In 1898 he
formed a partnership with Mr. O. W. East
ham, under the firm name of Dimick & East-
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ham, and they are now considered one of the
substantial law firms in the county. Mr.
Dimick is a republican in politics and has
canvassed the county in three campaigns, and
is now the secretary of the Republican Coun
ty Central Committee. He was elected
mayor of Oregon City on December 3, 1900,
by a majority of m votes, and was re-elected
by a majority of 205 votes on December 2,
1901.
COL. ROBERT A. MILLER.
Mr. Miller comes from one of the well
known pioneer and political families of Ore
gon, his people coming to this state in 1845
and first settling in Multnomah and Clacka
mas counties. He was born in Lane county.
Oregon,' in 1854. His parents moved to
Jacksonville, Oregon, when he was six weeks
old and his early life was spent on his fath
er's donation land claim adjoining that then
famous mining town. He learned the bridle
paths of Jackson and Klamath counties while
assisting in his father's stock interests. He
graduated at the Willamette University in
1878 and supplemented this with a Chautau
qua diploma in 1900. He was admitted to the
bar in 1887 and was admitted to practice be
fore the Supreme Court of the United States
in 1893, and was admitted to practice before
the Land Department at Washington, in
1897. Mr. Miller was elected to the legisla
ture from Jackson county in 1886 and was re
elected in 1888. His course in the legislature
gave him the democratic nomination for
Congress in 1890 by acclimation. He was
one of the nominees of his party for presi
dential elector in 1892, and was appointed
Register of the Oregon City Land Office in
1893 and served four years. Col. Miller gets
his military title from having served for six
years as aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov
ernor Pennoyer. He has been for the past
two years chairman of the Democratic Coun
ty Central Committee of Clackamas county
and at the last convention received the unani
mous endorsement of the convention lor
Congress. He was nominated in the state
convention of 1900 for Congress but declined
and placed in nomination Hon. Bernard
Daly, of Lake county, who received the nom
ination. Col. Miller has a state reputation
and stands well in the counsels of his party.
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Aside from Mr. Miller's political work he
spent some years in the newspaper field of
Oregon, being engaged as a writer or re
porter for the Salem Mercury, The Daily
Standard, The Oregonian. The News, and
The Polaris, and during the year 1803-4 he
was editor and proprietor of The Hesperian,
published at Portland, Oregon, He left the
newspaper work for more congenial pursuits.
Mr. Miller, after four years' residence in
Portland. Oregon, returned to Southern Ore
gon in 1884 and took charge of his father's
fruit and farming interests and demonstrated
that both could be made to pay. He helped to
build up the Southern Oregon State Board of
Agriculture and was secretarj for two years
during its most prosperous period. He was
president of the Southern Oregon Fruit
Growers' Association and gave much atten
tion to the material development of that por
tion of the state.
Col. Miller, since coining to Clackamas
county, was president of the Willamette Val
ley Chautauqua Association for four years
and took an active interest in upbuilding that
institution. He is now president of the Men's
Club of the First Congregational Church, of
Oregon City.
Col. Miller, since retiring as register of the
Oregon City Land Office, in 1897, has devot
ed his time to building up a law practice
which now extends over two states. He is
winning both fame and fortune in his chosen
profession. $
W. H. HOWELL.
Superintendent of the Oregon City Water
Works, is a native of Clackamas county, hav
ing been born in Canemah in 1861. Except
an absence of five or six years in The Dalles
and a year with Frank Campbell in Eastern
Oregon, on a surveying trip, he has always
lived in Oregon City. Mr. Howell has been
with the firm of Pope & Co. for 20 years and
has had charge of the plumbing, steam-fitting
and tinning part of the business. He has
been engineer and superintendent of the
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Oregon City which he afterwards sold dur
ing the boom some years ago. He is halt
owner of the elegant new Stevens-Howell
building, which has the finest hall in the city
above and the best and most showy store
rooms on the. ground floor. The hall is oc
cupied by the Woodmen of the World and
the double store by Adams Bro.'s Golden
Rule Bazaar. He is a substantial citizen of
Oregon City and is respected by all.
GEORGE LAZELLE.
Is a native of Michigan, but was raised in
Iowa. He came to Oregon 28 years ago and
two years later married Mary, the daughter
of J. K. Bingman, the pioneer, of Canemah.
Mr. Lazelle is a prominent breeder of Red
Polled cattle and is the proprietor of a fine
herd of this celebrated breed. In another
column will be found a picture of some of his
fine stock. Mr. Lazelle has been president
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of the State Spiritual Association, which
holds annual camp meetings on its grounds
at New Era. and takes a prominent interest
in such matters. He owns a fine farm be
tween N-w Era and Oregon City and is an
honorable and agreeable gentleman, and is
always to be found on the right side in busi
ness transactions and looks to the better
ment of his fellow-citizens in political matters
and is respected by all.