Children:
Edna Axtell b. 1879 Nebraska
Estella Axtell b. 1881 Nebraska
Louie Axtell b. Oct 1883 Nebraska
Abe Axtell b. Aug 1887 Nebraska
Robert M Axtell b. Sept 1894 Oregon
born to Moses and Huldrell (Green) Axtell
Judge Abram Axtell, a prominent representative of the legal profession at Vancouver, was born at Barbourville, Delaware county, New York, June 26, 1845, and is descended from an old New England family founded in America in early colonial days. Indeed the ancestral line runs back to the early settlement of Massachusetts. His great-grandfather, Moses Axtell, lived in the Bay state at the time of the war for independence, in which his acts glorified the Axtell name. He was a member of the famous Boston tea party and as a minute-man became a soldier of the American army, participating in the battles of Concord and Lexington, and was also with Generals Warren and Gill at Bunker Hill. He likewise participated in the engagement at Monmouth Swamp and Camden's Dell. He was a personal friend of Generals Greene and Henryson and was an ardent admirer of and dearly loved General Washington, with whom he was at Valley Forge and also at the capture of the two thousand Hessians at Trenton after crossing the Delaware. Tradition has it that he assisted in removing the remains of General Warren from the battleground of Bunker Hill back to Boston, where the honors of a Masonic burial were accorded him. Moses Axtell lived for many years to enjoy the liberty for which he fought and died at his home at Barbourville, New York, where his grave, properly marked, may still be seen. It was in the same neighborhood that Moses Axtell, Jr., the grandfather of Judge Axtell, was born, lived and died. The Judge's father, also named Moses, was born in Barbourville, New York, but spent his last days in Waushara county, Wisconsin. He married Huldah Greene, whose father, Robert Greene, served as a musician in the United States army in the war of 1812.
The subject of this review, who by his family and immediate friends in his youth was called Abe, a name that has clung to him since that day, was educated in the common schools of Barbourville, New York, and in a select high school in the village of Laurens, Otsego county, New York. His attention was then given to farming until 1861, when he entered upon those events which constitute the military chapter in his life history. He joined the Home Guards that spring under command of Captain Olins at West Oneonta, Otsego county, New York, and in October, 1861, joined the famous One Hundred and First Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry, with which he served as a musician until June 4, 1862, when on account of disabilities contracted in line of duty he was honor ably discharged. He afterward became nurse and musician, serving most of the time as chief musician, at Chestnut Hill in the United States general hospital at Philadelphia, remaining there from November, 1863, until February 21, 1865, when he was again honorably discharged but on the same day reenlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry, which was then located behind the breastworks in front of Petersburg, Virginia. He served with that regiment as chief musician until the close of the war and was in all the battles in which the command took part, including the siege of Petersburg and the encounters with the enemy from that time until General Lee surrendered to General Grant. With his regiment he was discharged at Alexandria, Virginia, June 8, 1865, but was not mustered out until the command reached the home of its colonel, William Gregg, at Elmira, New York. Years later Judge Axtell became connected with the military forces of Oregon and was duly commissioned and assigned to duty on May 6, 1899, as captain of Company H, Third Regiment of the Oregon National Guard, but resigned on the 31st of October following.
After the Civil war Mr. Axtell began studying law and was admitted to practice upon examination in open court before Judge Tiffaney of the ninth judicial district of Nebraska at Scotia, Greeley county, that state. On the 5th of February, 1888, he was admitted to practice as an attorney before the United States interior department and all the bureaus thereof. In the winter following he came to Oregon, settling at Grants Pass, Josephine county. In addition to the private practice of law there he served from 1890 until 1894 inclusive as city attorney and during that time revised, compiled and put in book form in the order and method of a code all the city ordinances then existing. He was mayor of Grants Pass from May, 1896, until May, 1897, during which time he succeeded in considerably reducing the city debt, notwithstanding the fact that more than a usual amount of improvements was made. Previous to his election to the mayoralty he served as deputy district attorney in Josephine county, Oregon, and in 1898 was elected county judge, serving upon the bench for four years. His record as a judge was in harmony with his record as a man and lawyer, being characterized by high personal worth and by ready and unbiased solution of all the difficult legal problems that came before him.
Throughout the period of his residence in the northwest he has enjoyed a reputation as an able advocate and safe counselor and it is well known that his devotion to his clients' interests is unfaltering, yet he never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law.
Aside from the public offices mentioned above, he served as justice of the peace at Scotia, Nebraska, for both the city of Scotia and for Greeley county in pioneer days from 1878 until 1887 inclusive, and in the justice court had the initial experience which well qualified him to render the more difficult decisions in the county courts.
On the 28th of May, 1877, at Austin, Minnesota, Mr. Axtell was married to Phebe Magary, who was born and reared in Fillmore county, Minnesota, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Magary. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Axtell have been born four children: Mrs. Estella McPhadden, Louie, Abe and Moses.
Mr. Axtell has long been active in the Masonic fraternity. He became a Mason at North Loup, Nebraska, took the Royal Arch degrees at St. Paul, Nebraska, and was created a Knight Templar in Mount Lebanon Commandery, No. 6, at Grand Island, Nebraska. Following his removal to the northwest he became a member of Grants Pass Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M., and a charter member of Reams Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M., at Grants Pass, in which he filled all the principal offices including that of high priest; and on the 11th of June, 1900, he was regularly annointed and consecrated and became a member of the Council of High Priests, duly initiated at Portland, Oregon. Since his removal to Vancouver he has become a member of Mount Hood Lodge, No. 32, F. & A. M., of which he is now treasurer; Vancouver Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M.; Vancouver Commandery, No. 10, K. T., He joined General Ransome Post, No. 36, G. A. R., at Scotia, Nebraska, as a charter member and served as its commander. Later he belonged to General Logan Post, No. 39, at Grants Pass, Oregon, and filled its principal offices, including that of commander. As a department officer he was judge advocate and General Sherman was department commander, and he has served the department as chief musician of its drum corps, filling this office at the present time. His local membership is now with Ellsworth Post, No. 2, G. A. R., in which he has served as quartermaster and was judge advocate on the staff of Department Commander J. T. Goss from June 22, 1905, to June 22, 1906. The spirit of patriotism and the basic principles of Masonry have long been actuating" forces in his life. Born on the Atlantic coast, he has moved westward step by step until reaching the Pacific coast country and while witnessing and taking part in the upbuilding and the advancement of prosperity in this section he has become convinced that the city of Portland, Oregon, and of Vancouver, Washington, is and will be to the Pacific coast country what New York city and its New Jersey suburbs are to the Atlantic coast country.
(Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders, 1911)
pages 588-592
(thanks to Lori #48002299, for you addition to this memorial)
Edna Axtell b. 1879 Nebraska
Estella Axtell b. 1881 Nebraska
Louie Axtell b. Oct 1883 Nebraska
Abe Axtell b. Aug 1887 Nebraska
Robert M Axtell b. Sept 1894 Oregon
born to Moses and Huldrell (Green) Axtell
Judge Abram Axtell, a prominent representative of the legal profession at Vancouver, was born at Barbourville, Delaware county, New York, June 26, 1845, and is descended from an old New England family founded in America in early colonial days. Indeed the ancestral line runs back to the early settlement of Massachusetts. His great-grandfather, Moses Axtell, lived in the Bay state at the time of the war for independence, in which his acts glorified the Axtell name. He was a member of the famous Boston tea party and as a minute-man became a soldier of the American army, participating in the battles of Concord and Lexington, and was also with Generals Warren and Gill at Bunker Hill. He likewise participated in the engagement at Monmouth Swamp and Camden's Dell. He was a personal friend of Generals Greene and Henryson and was an ardent admirer of and dearly loved General Washington, with whom he was at Valley Forge and also at the capture of the two thousand Hessians at Trenton after crossing the Delaware. Tradition has it that he assisted in removing the remains of General Warren from the battleground of Bunker Hill back to Boston, where the honors of a Masonic burial were accorded him. Moses Axtell lived for many years to enjoy the liberty for which he fought and died at his home at Barbourville, New York, where his grave, properly marked, may still be seen. It was in the same neighborhood that Moses Axtell, Jr., the grandfather of Judge Axtell, was born, lived and died. The Judge's father, also named Moses, was born in Barbourville, New York, but spent his last days in Waushara county, Wisconsin. He married Huldah Greene, whose father, Robert Greene, served as a musician in the United States army in the war of 1812.
The subject of this review, who by his family and immediate friends in his youth was called Abe, a name that has clung to him since that day, was educated in the common schools of Barbourville, New York, and in a select high school in the village of Laurens, Otsego county, New York. His attention was then given to farming until 1861, when he entered upon those events which constitute the military chapter in his life history. He joined the Home Guards that spring under command of Captain Olins at West Oneonta, Otsego county, New York, and in October, 1861, joined the famous One Hundred and First Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry, with which he served as a musician until June 4, 1862, when on account of disabilities contracted in line of duty he was honor ably discharged. He afterward became nurse and musician, serving most of the time as chief musician, at Chestnut Hill in the United States general hospital at Philadelphia, remaining there from November, 1863, until February 21, 1865, when he was again honorably discharged but on the same day reenlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry, which was then located behind the breastworks in front of Petersburg, Virginia. He served with that regiment as chief musician until the close of the war and was in all the battles in which the command took part, including the siege of Petersburg and the encounters with the enemy from that time until General Lee surrendered to General Grant. With his regiment he was discharged at Alexandria, Virginia, June 8, 1865, but was not mustered out until the command reached the home of its colonel, William Gregg, at Elmira, New York. Years later Judge Axtell became connected with the military forces of Oregon and was duly commissioned and assigned to duty on May 6, 1899, as captain of Company H, Third Regiment of the Oregon National Guard, but resigned on the 31st of October following.
After the Civil war Mr. Axtell began studying law and was admitted to practice upon examination in open court before Judge Tiffaney of the ninth judicial district of Nebraska at Scotia, Greeley county, that state. On the 5th of February, 1888, he was admitted to practice as an attorney before the United States interior department and all the bureaus thereof. In the winter following he came to Oregon, settling at Grants Pass, Josephine county. In addition to the private practice of law there he served from 1890 until 1894 inclusive as city attorney and during that time revised, compiled and put in book form in the order and method of a code all the city ordinances then existing. He was mayor of Grants Pass from May, 1896, until May, 1897, during which time he succeeded in considerably reducing the city debt, notwithstanding the fact that more than a usual amount of improvements was made. Previous to his election to the mayoralty he served as deputy district attorney in Josephine county, Oregon, and in 1898 was elected county judge, serving upon the bench for four years. His record as a judge was in harmony with his record as a man and lawyer, being characterized by high personal worth and by ready and unbiased solution of all the difficult legal problems that came before him.
Throughout the period of his residence in the northwest he has enjoyed a reputation as an able advocate and safe counselor and it is well known that his devotion to his clients' interests is unfaltering, yet he never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law.
Aside from the public offices mentioned above, he served as justice of the peace at Scotia, Nebraska, for both the city of Scotia and for Greeley county in pioneer days from 1878 until 1887 inclusive, and in the justice court had the initial experience which well qualified him to render the more difficult decisions in the county courts.
On the 28th of May, 1877, at Austin, Minnesota, Mr. Axtell was married to Phebe Magary, who was born and reared in Fillmore county, Minnesota, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Magary. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Axtell have been born four children: Mrs. Estella McPhadden, Louie, Abe and Moses.
Mr. Axtell has long been active in the Masonic fraternity. He became a Mason at North Loup, Nebraska, took the Royal Arch degrees at St. Paul, Nebraska, and was created a Knight Templar in Mount Lebanon Commandery, No. 6, at Grand Island, Nebraska. Following his removal to the northwest he became a member of Grants Pass Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M., and a charter member of Reams Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M., at Grants Pass, in which he filled all the principal offices including that of high priest; and on the 11th of June, 1900, he was regularly annointed and consecrated and became a member of the Council of High Priests, duly initiated at Portland, Oregon. Since his removal to Vancouver he has become a member of Mount Hood Lodge, No. 32, F. & A. M., of which he is now treasurer; Vancouver Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M.; Vancouver Commandery, No. 10, K. T., He joined General Ransome Post, No. 36, G. A. R., at Scotia, Nebraska, as a charter member and served as its commander. Later he belonged to General Logan Post, No. 39, at Grants Pass, Oregon, and filled its principal offices, including that of commander. As a department officer he was judge advocate and General Sherman was department commander, and he has served the department as chief musician of its drum corps, filling this office at the present time. His local membership is now with Ellsworth Post, No. 2, G. A. R., in which he has served as quartermaster and was judge advocate on the staff of Department Commander J. T. Goss from June 22, 1905, to June 22, 1906. The spirit of patriotism and the basic principles of Masonry have long been actuating" forces in his life. Born on the Atlantic coast, he has moved westward step by step until reaching the Pacific coast country and while witnessing and taking part in the upbuilding and the advancement of prosperity in this section he has become convinced that the city of Portland, Oregon, and of Vancouver, Washington, is and will be to the Pacific coast country what New York city and its New Jersey suburbs are to the Atlantic coast country.
(Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders, 1911)
pages 588-592
(thanks to Lori #48002299, for you addition to this memorial)
Children:
Edna Axtell b. 1879 Nebraska
Estella Axtell b. 1881 Nebraska
Louie Axtell b. Oct 1883 Nebraska
Abe Axtell b. Aug 1887 Nebraska
Robert M Axtell b. Sept 1894 Oregon
born to Moses and Huldrell (Green) Axtell
Judge Abram Axtell, a prominent representative of the legal profession at Vancouver, was born at Barbourville, Delaware county, New York, June 26, 1845, and is descended from an old New England family founded in America in early colonial days. Indeed the ancestral line runs back to the early settlement of Massachusetts. His great-grandfather, Moses Axtell, lived in the Bay state at the time of the war for independence, in which his acts glorified the Axtell name. He was a member of the famous Boston tea party and as a minute-man became a soldier of the American army, participating in the battles of Concord and Lexington, and was also with Generals Warren and Gill at Bunker Hill. He likewise participated in the engagement at Monmouth Swamp and Camden's Dell. He was a personal friend of Generals Greene and Henryson and was an ardent admirer of and dearly loved General Washington, with whom he was at Valley Forge and also at the capture of the two thousand Hessians at Trenton after crossing the Delaware. Tradition has it that he assisted in removing the remains of General Warren from the battleground of Bunker Hill back to Boston, where the honors of a Masonic burial were accorded him. Moses Axtell lived for many years to enjoy the liberty for which he fought and died at his home at Barbourville, New York, where his grave, properly marked, may still be seen. It was in the same neighborhood that Moses Axtell, Jr., the grandfather of Judge Axtell, was born, lived and died. The Judge's father, also named Moses, was born in Barbourville, New York, but spent his last days in Waushara county, Wisconsin. He married Huldah Greene, whose father, Robert Greene, served as a musician in the United States army in the war of 1812.
The subject of this review, who by his family and immediate friends in his youth was called Abe, a name that has clung to him since that day, was educated in the common schools of Barbourville, New York, and in a select high school in the village of Laurens, Otsego county, New York. His attention was then given to farming until 1861, when he entered upon those events which constitute the military chapter in his life history. He joined the Home Guards that spring under command of Captain Olins at West Oneonta, Otsego county, New York, and in October, 1861, joined the famous One Hundred and First Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry, with which he served as a musician until June 4, 1862, when on account of disabilities contracted in line of duty he was honor ably discharged. He afterward became nurse and musician, serving most of the time as chief musician, at Chestnut Hill in the United States general hospital at Philadelphia, remaining there from November, 1863, until February 21, 1865, when he was again honorably discharged but on the same day reenlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry, which was then located behind the breastworks in front of Petersburg, Virginia. He served with that regiment as chief musician until the close of the war and was in all the battles in which the command took part, including the siege of Petersburg and the encounters with the enemy from that time until General Lee surrendered to General Grant. With his regiment he was discharged at Alexandria, Virginia, June 8, 1865, but was not mustered out until the command reached the home of its colonel, William Gregg, at Elmira, New York. Years later Judge Axtell became connected with the military forces of Oregon and was duly commissioned and assigned to duty on May 6, 1899, as captain of Company H, Third Regiment of the Oregon National Guard, but resigned on the 31st of October following.
After the Civil war Mr. Axtell began studying law and was admitted to practice upon examination in open court before Judge Tiffaney of the ninth judicial district of Nebraska at Scotia, Greeley county, that state. On the 5th of February, 1888, he was admitted to practice as an attorney before the United States interior department and all the bureaus thereof. In the winter following he came to Oregon, settling at Grants Pass, Josephine county. In addition to the private practice of law there he served from 1890 until 1894 inclusive as city attorney and during that time revised, compiled and put in book form in the order and method of a code all the city ordinances then existing. He was mayor of Grants Pass from May, 1896, until May, 1897, during which time he succeeded in considerably reducing the city debt, notwithstanding the fact that more than a usual amount of improvements was made. Previous to his election to the mayoralty he served as deputy district attorney in Josephine county, Oregon, and in 1898 was elected county judge, serving upon the bench for four years. His record as a judge was in harmony with his record as a man and lawyer, being characterized by high personal worth and by ready and unbiased solution of all the difficult legal problems that came before him.
Throughout the period of his residence in the northwest he has enjoyed a reputation as an able advocate and safe counselor and it is well known that his devotion to his clients' interests is unfaltering, yet he never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law.
Aside from the public offices mentioned above, he served as justice of the peace at Scotia, Nebraska, for both the city of Scotia and for Greeley county in pioneer days from 1878 until 1887 inclusive, and in the justice court had the initial experience which well qualified him to render the more difficult decisions in the county courts.
On the 28th of May, 1877, at Austin, Minnesota, Mr. Axtell was married to Phebe Magary, who was born and reared in Fillmore county, Minnesota, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Magary. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Axtell have been born four children: Mrs. Estella McPhadden, Louie, Abe and Moses.
Mr. Axtell has long been active in the Masonic fraternity. He became a Mason at North Loup, Nebraska, took the Royal Arch degrees at St. Paul, Nebraska, and was created a Knight Templar in Mount Lebanon Commandery, No. 6, at Grand Island, Nebraska. Following his removal to the northwest he became a member of Grants Pass Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M., and a charter member of Reams Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M., at Grants Pass, in which he filled all the principal offices including that of high priest; and on the 11th of June, 1900, he was regularly annointed and consecrated and became a member of the Council of High Priests, duly initiated at Portland, Oregon. Since his removal to Vancouver he has become a member of Mount Hood Lodge, No. 32, F. & A. M., of which he is now treasurer; Vancouver Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M.; Vancouver Commandery, No. 10, K. T., He joined General Ransome Post, No. 36, G. A. R., at Scotia, Nebraska, as a charter member and served as its commander. Later he belonged to General Logan Post, No. 39, at Grants Pass, Oregon, and filled its principal offices, including that of commander. As a department officer he was judge advocate and General Sherman was department commander, and he has served the department as chief musician of its drum corps, filling this office at the present time. His local membership is now with Ellsworth Post, No. 2, G. A. R., in which he has served as quartermaster and was judge advocate on the staff of Department Commander J. T. Goss from June 22, 1905, to June 22, 1906. The spirit of patriotism and the basic principles of Masonry have long been actuating" forces in his life. Born on the Atlantic coast, he has moved westward step by step until reaching the Pacific coast country and while witnessing and taking part in the upbuilding and the advancement of prosperity in this section he has become convinced that the city of Portland, Oregon, and of Vancouver, Washington, is and will be to the Pacific coast country what New York city and its New Jersey suburbs are to the Atlantic coast country.
(Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders, 1911)
pages 588-592
(thanks to Lori #48002299, for you addition to this memorial)
Edna Axtell b. 1879 Nebraska
Estella Axtell b. 1881 Nebraska
Louie Axtell b. Oct 1883 Nebraska
Abe Axtell b. Aug 1887 Nebraska
Robert M Axtell b. Sept 1894 Oregon
born to Moses and Huldrell (Green) Axtell
Judge Abram Axtell, a prominent representative of the legal profession at Vancouver, was born at Barbourville, Delaware county, New York, June 26, 1845, and is descended from an old New England family founded in America in early colonial days. Indeed the ancestral line runs back to the early settlement of Massachusetts. His great-grandfather, Moses Axtell, lived in the Bay state at the time of the war for independence, in which his acts glorified the Axtell name. He was a member of the famous Boston tea party and as a minute-man became a soldier of the American army, participating in the battles of Concord and Lexington, and was also with Generals Warren and Gill at Bunker Hill. He likewise participated in the engagement at Monmouth Swamp and Camden's Dell. He was a personal friend of Generals Greene and Henryson and was an ardent admirer of and dearly loved General Washington, with whom he was at Valley Forge and also at the capture of the two thousand Hessians at Trenton after crossing the Delaware. Tradition has it that he assisted in removing the remains of General Warren from the battleground of Bunker Hill back to Boston, where the honors of a Masonic burial were accorded him. Moses Axtell lived for many years to enjoy the liberty for which he fought and died at his home at Barbourville, New York, where his grave, properly marked, may still be seen. It was in the same neighborhood that Moses Axtell, Jr., the grandfather of Judge Axtell, was born, lived and died. The Judge's father, also named Moses, was born in Barbourville, New York, but spent his last days in Waushara county, Wisconsin. He married Huldah Greene, whose father, Robert Greene, served as a musician in the United States army in the war of 1812.
The subject of this review, who by his family and immediate friends in his youth was called Abe, a name that has clung to him since that day, was educated in the common schools of Barbourville, New York, and in a select high school in the village of Laurens, Otsego county, New York. His attention was then given to farming until 1861, when he entered upon those events which constitute the military chapter in his life history. He joined the Home Guards that spring under command of Captain Olins at West Oneonta, Otsego county, New York, and in October, 1861, joined the famous One Hundred and First Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry, with which he served as a musician until June 4, 1862, when on account of disabilities contracted in line of duty he was honor ably discharged. He afterward became nurse and musician, serving most of the time as chief musician, at Chestnut Hill in the United States general hospital at Philadelphia, remaining there from November, 1863, until February 21, 1865, when he was again honorably discharged but on the same day reenlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry, which was then located behind the breastworks in front of Petersburg, Virginia. He served with that regiment as chief musician until the close of the war and was in all the battles in which the command took part, including the siege of Petersburg and the encounters with the enemy from that time until General Lee surrendered to General Grant. With his regiment he was discharged at Alexandria, Virginia, June 8, 1865, but was not mustered out until the command reached the home of its colonel, William Gregg, at Elmira, New York. Years later Judge Axtell became connected with the military forces of Oregon and was duly commissioned and assigned to duty on May 6, 1899, as captain of Company H, Third Regiment of the Oregon National Guard, but resigned on the 31st of October following.
After the Civil war Mr. Axtell began studying law and was admitted to practice upon examination in open court before Judge Tiffaney of the ninth judicial district of Nebraska at Scotia, Greeley county, that state. On the 5th of February, 1888, he was admitted to practice as an attorney before the United States interior department and all the bureaus thereof. In the winter following he came to Oregon, settling at Grants Pass, Josephine county. In addition to the private practice of law there he served from 1890 until 1894 inclusive as city attorney and during that time revised, compiled and put in book form in the order and method of a code all the city ordinances then existing. He was mayor of Grants Pass from May, 1896, until May, 1897, during which time he succeeded in considerably reducing the city debt, notwithstanding the fact that more than a usual amount of improvements was made. Previous to his election to the mayoralty he served as deputy district attorney in Josephine county, Oregon, and in 1898 was elected county judge, serving upon the bench for four years. His record as a judge was in harmony with his record as a man and lawyer, being characterized by high personal worth and by ready and unbiased solution of all the difficult legal problems that came before him.
Throughout the period of his residence in the northwest he has enjoyed a reputation as an able advocate and safe counselor and it is well known that his devotion to his clients' interests is unfaltering, yet he never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law.
Aside from the public offices mentioned above, he served as justice of the peace at Scotia, Nebraska, for both the city of Scotia and for Greeley county in pioneer days from 1878 until 1887 inclusive, and in the justice court had the initial experience which well qualified him to render the more difficult decisions in the county courts.
On the 28th of May, 1877, at Austin, Minnesota, Mr. Axtell was married to Phebe Magary, who was born and reared in Fillmore county, Minnesota, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Magary. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Axtell have been born four children: Mrs. Estella McPhadden, Louie, Abe and Moses.
Mr. Axtell has long been active in the Masonic fraternity. He became a Mason at North Loup, Nebraska, took the Royal Arch degrees at St. Paul, Nebraska, and was created a Knight Templar in Mount Lebanon Commandery, No. 6, at Grand Island, Nebraska. Following his removal to the northwest he became a member of Grants Pass Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M., and a charter member of Reams Chapter, No. 28, R. A. M., at Grants Pass, in which he filled all the principal offices including that of high priest; and on the 11th of June, 1900, he was regularly annointed and consecrated and became a member of the Council of High Priests, duly initiated at Portland, Oregon. Since his removal to Vancouver he has become a member of Mount Hood Lodge, No. 32, F. & A. M., of which he is now treasurer; Vancouver Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M.; Vancouver Commandery, No. 10, K. T., He joined General Ransome Post, No. 36, G. A. R., at Scotia, Nebraska, as a charter member and served as its commander. Later he belonged to General Logan Post, No. 39, at Grants Pass, Oregon, and filled its principal offices, including that of commander. As a department officer he was judge advocate and General Sherman was department commander, and he has served the department as chief musician of its drum corps, filling this office at the present time. His local membership is now with Ellsworth Post, No. 2, G. A. R., in which he has served as quartermaster and was judge advocate on the staff of Department Commander J. T. Goss from June 22, 1905, to June 22, 1906. The spirit of patriotism and the basic principles of Masonry have long been actuating" forces in his life. Born on the Atlantic coast, he has moved westward step by step until reaching the Pacific coast country and while witnessing and taking part in the upbuilding and the advancement of prosperity in this section he has become convinced that the city of Portland, Oregon, and of Vancouver, Washington, is and will be to the Pacific coast country what New York city and its New Jersey suburbs are to the Atlantic coast country.
(Portland, Oregon, Its History and Builders, 1911)
pages 588-592
(thanks to Lori #48002299, for you addition to this memorial)
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