PIONEER JURIST DIES AT ROSSLAND
Judge Nathan T. Caton Practiced Law At
Walla Walla Before the Railroad Came
Judge Nathan Thomas Caton, age 84, among the oldest pioneers of the Inland Empire, died at Rossland, B. C., at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. E. Collis, Saturday night according to a report telephoned to The Spokesman-Review last night.
Judge Caton practiced law in Walla Walla long before the railroad lines through the northwest were projected. Later, he was the Superior Court Judge in Davenport, Lincoln County, Wash.
He was born in Saint Louis, Mo., in 1832 to George W. Caton b. abt 1800 in Fairfax County, VA. ~ d. Unknown. and Saraha Haus (Moore) Caton b. 27 July 1807 in MD.,
~ d. 28 Jan 1891 unknown. Four children were born to them: Rev.George Roswell Caton b. 1828–d. unknown; Nathan Thomas Caton 1832– d. 1916; Susan Sabina Caton 1835–d. Unknown; Rebecca E. Caton 1842–d. Unknown.
He was a member of the territorial legislature 40 or 45 years ago and during one session was speaker of the lower house.
Judge Caton was regarded as a wheelhorse of the democratic party in Washington State politics. He was a close friend of Judge George Turner.
Until recently he spent much of his time in Davenport and was well-known in the Big Bend Country of Washington State.
The body will be shipped to Spokane for funeral services and interment.
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
02 Oct 1916, Mon Page 6
transcribed by Kerry 48011981
==
HONORABLE NATHAN T. CATON
This is a name well and favorably known throughout Washington. Eminent as a jurist the subject of this article is one of the earliest pioneers in the Big Bend country, having come here anterior to the creation of Washington as a territory.
Nathan T. Caton, now a prominent attorney residing at Davenport, Lincoln county, Was., was born in St. Louis, on January 6, 1832.
His parents were George W. Caton b. abt 1800 Fairfax County, VA., ~ D. Unknown and Sarah Haus(Moore) Caton. The father, a native of Alexandria, Virginia; the mother of Westmoreland county, Maryland.
The paternal grandfather was an Irishman and served with distinction in the Revolution. Our subject well remembers hearing him describe the battle of Monmouth. He died at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.
The father of Judge Caton, who was by avocation a tailor, was born in 1800 and passed away at the conclusion of the Civil War, in 1865.
The maternal grandfather was Nathan Moore, a soldier during the War of 1812. He participated in the battle of Bladensburg, at the time Washington city was burned by the British, and the mother of our subject was in that city at the time.
The parents of Judge Caton were removed to Booneville, Missouri, when he was less than a year old. Subsequently, he was matriculated at Columbia University, at Columbia, Boone county, but his father having met with financial reverses, was compelled to leave college in his senior year, and before graduating.
He then entered a mercantile house as a salesman and bookkeeper, and in 1849, when seventeen years of age, crossed the plains to California, driving an ox team. There he mined for a few months and early in the fifties went to Oregon where he taught school in the far-famed Willamette valley.
Returning to California in the spring of 1851 he remained there five months, then went back to the Willamette Valley where he was located when the act creating the territory of Washington was passed by congress.
In 1857 he was appointed postmaster of Salem, Oregon, serving four years, when he was elected clerk of Marion county.
He read law with Governor Lafayette Grover, who was later a United States senator from Oregon, since which period he has practiced continuously.
In 1866 he removed to Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho, practicing his profession, mining and conducting for a time a newspaper, the Owyhee Bullion.
With his family, he came to Walla Walla, Washington, practiced his profession, and was three times elected to the legislature. During his last term, Judge Caton introduced bills creating Douglas, Franklin, Adams, and Asotin counties, writing personally all of these measures and introducing them.
He was speaker of the house in 1872. He served one term as prosecuting attorney during the territorial days, and in 1898 was elected prosecuting attorney of Lincoln county, serving four years.
April 14, 1853, our subject was married to Martha A. Herren, a native of Indiana. The ceremony was solemnized in Salem, Oregon. Her father, John, was a native of Kentucky, born in 1799. He crossed the plains from Indiana as early as 1845 and died near Salem, Oregon, in 1864.
Her mother was Dosha (Robbins) Herren.
Mrs. Caton has two brothers and three sisters living: Levi M.; Noah F.; Susannah, widow of William T. Wallace; Jane, widow of John B. Keizer, and Sarilda R., wife of T. S. Leonard.
Judge Caton is a member of the K. P., of which he is past chancellor; of the A. F. & A. M., being past master; of the R. A. M., and has attended grand lodge as delegate many times. He was present and assisted in the organization of the first grand lodge of K. P. in Tacoma, and was department supreme chancellor for two terms under Supreme Chancellor S. S. Davis.
Judge and Mrs. Caton are members of the Christian church. Politically, he is a Democrat and prominent in the councils of that party.
The session laws of 1872 contain a bill passed by the territorial legislature to prevent extortions by railroads. This bill was written, introduced, and fought to its passage by the subject of this sketch. Though afterward repealed by force brought to bear by Henry Villard, then president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, it will be seen that the origin of the railroad legislation of the sort that is rightly so dear to the people of eastern Washington as the present temple dates back to 1872 and to a resident of this county, Hon. Nathan T. Caton.
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
provided by Jane 46846403
==
Nathan Thomas Caton in the Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, the 1700s-1900s
Name: Nathan Thomas Caton
Ethnicity: Scotch, Irish
Occupation: Lawyer
Birth Date: 6 Jan 1832
Birth Place: St Louis, Missouri
Marriage Date: 14 Apr 1853
Location Date: 28 Nov 1850
Location: Oregon, USA
Spouse: Martha Herren
Judge Nathan T. Caton Practiced Law At
Walla Walla Before the Railroad Came
Judge Nathan Thomas Caton, age 84, among the oldest pioneers of the Inland Empire, died at Rossland, B. C., at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. E. Collis, Saturday night according to a report telephoned to The Spokesman-Review last night.
Judge Caton practiced law in Walla Walla long before the railroad lines through the northwest were projected. Later, he was the Superior Court Judge in Davenport, Lincoln County, Wash.
He was born in Saint Louis, Mo., in 1832 to George W. Caton b. abt 1800 in Fairfax County, VA. ~ d. Unknown. and Saraha Haus (Moore) Caton b. 27 July 1807 in MD.,
~ d. 28 Jan 1891 unknown. Four children were born to them: Rev.George Roswell Caton b. 1828–d. unknown; Nathan Thomas Caton 1832– d. 1916; Susan Sabina Caton 1835–d. Unknown; Rebecca E. Caton 1842–d. Unknown.
He was a member of the territorial legislature 40 or 45 years ago and during one session was speaker of the lower house.
Judge Caton was regarded as a wheelhorse of the democratic party in Washington State politics. He was a close friend of Judge George Turner.
Until recently he spent much of his time in Davenport and was well-known in the Big Bend Country of Washington State.
The body will be shipped to Spokane for funeral services and interment.
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
02 Oct 1916, Mon Page 6
transcribed by Kerry 48011981
==
HONORABLE NATHAN T. CATON
This is a name well and favorably known throughout Washington. Eminent as a jurist the subject of this article is one of the earliest pioneers in the Big Bend country, having come here anterior to the creation of Washington as a territory.
Nathan T. Caton, now a prominent attorney residing at Davenport, Lincoln county, Was., was born in St. Louis, on January 6, 1832.
His parents were George W. Caton b. abt 1800 Fairfax County, VA., ~ D. Unknown and Sarah Haus(Moore) Caton. The father, a native of Alexandria, Virginia; the mother of Westmoreland county, Maryland.
The paternal grandfather was an Irishman and served with distinction in the Revolution. Our subject well remembers hearing him describe the battle of Monmouth. He died at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.
The father of Judge Caton, who was by avocation a tailor, was born in 1800 and passed away at the conclusion of the Civil War, in 1865.
The maternal grandfather was Nathan Moore, a soldier during the War of 1812. He participated in the battle of Bladensburg, at the time Washington city was burned by the British, and the mother of our subject was in that city at the time.
The parents of Judge Caton were removed to Booneville, Missouri, when he was less than a year old. Subsequently, he was matriculated at Columbia University, at Columbia, Boone county, but his father having met with financial reverses, was compelled to leave college in his senior year, and before graduating.
He then entered a mercantile house as a salesman and bookkeeper, and in 1849, when seventeen years of age, crossed the plains to California, driving an ox team. There he mined for a few months and early in the fifties went to Oregon where he taught school in the far-famed Willamette valley.
Returning to California in the spring of 1851 he remained there five months, then went back to the Willamette Valley where he was located when the act creating the territory of Washington was passed by congress.
In 1857 he was appointed postmaster of Salem, Oregon, serving four years, when he was elected clerk of Marion county.
He read law with Governor Lafayette Grover, who was later a United States senator from Oregon, since which period he has practiced continuously.
In 1866 he removed to Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho, practicing his profession, mining and conducting for a time a newspaper, the Owyhee Bullion.
With his family, he came to Walla Walla, Washington, practiced his profession, and was three times elected to the legislature. During his last term, Judge Caton introduced bills creating Douglas, Franklin, Adams, and Asotin counties, writing personally all of these measures and introducing them.
He was speaker of the house in 1872. He served one term as prosecuting attorney during the territorial days, and in 1898 was elected prosecuting attorney of Lincoln county, serving four years.
April 14, 1853, our subject was married to Martha A. Herren, a native of Indiana. The ceremony was solemnized in Salem, Oregon. Her father, John, was a native of Kentucky, born in 1799. He crossed the plains from Indiana as early as 1845 and died near Salem, Oregon, in 1864.
Her mother was Dosha (Robbins) Herren.
Mrs. Caton has two brothers and three sisters living: Levi M.; Noah F.; Susannah, widow of William T. Wallace; Jane, widow of John B. Keizer, and Sarilda R., wife of T. S. Leonard.
Judge Caton is a member of the K. P., of which he is past chancellor; of the A. F. & A. M., being past master; of the R. A. M., and has attended grand lodge as delegate many times. He was present and assisted in the organization of the first grand lodge of K. P. in Tacoma, and was department supreme chancellor for two terms under Supreme Chancellor S. S. Davis.
Judge and Mrs. Caton are members of the Christian church. Politically, he is a Democrat and prominent in the councils of that party.
The session laws of 1872 contain a bill passed by the territorial legislature to prevent extortions by railroads. This bill was written, introduced, and fought to its passage by the subject of this sketch. Though afterward repealed by force brought to bear by Henry Villard, then president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, it will be seen that the origin of the railroad legislation of the sort that is rightly so dear to the people of eastern Washington as the present temple dates back to 1872 and to a resident of this county, Hon. Nathan T. Caton.
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
provided by Jane 46846403
==
Nathan Thomas Caton in the Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, the 1700s-1900s
Name: Nathan Thomas Caton
Ethnicity: Scotch, Irish
Occupation: Lawyer
Birth Date: 6 Jan 1832
Birth Place: St Louis, Missouri
Marriage Date: 14 Apr 1853
Location Date: 28 Nov 1850
Location: Oregon, USA
Spouse: Martha Herren
PIONEER JURIST DIES AT ROSSLAND
Judge Nathan T. Caton Practiced Law At
Walla Walla Before the Railroad Came
Judge Nathan Thomas Caton, age 84, among the oldest pioneers of the Inland Empire, died at Rossland, B. C., at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. E. Collis, Saturday night according to a report telephoned to The Spokesman-Review last night.
Judge Caton practiced law in Walla Walla long before the railroad lines through the northwest were projected. Later, he was the Superior Court Judge in Davenport, Lincoln County, Wash.
He was born in Saint Louis, Mo., in 1832 to George W. Caton b. abt 1800 in Fairfax County, VA. ~ d. Unknown. and Saraha Haus (Moore) Caton b. 27 July 1807 in MD.,
~ d. 28 Jan 1891 unknown. Four children were born to them: Rev.George Roswell Caton b. 1828–d. unknown; Nathan Thomas Caton 1832– d. 1916; Susan Sabina Caton 1835–d. Unknown; Rebecca E. Caton 1842–d. Unknown.
He was a member of the territorial legislature 40 or 45 years ago and during one session was speaker of the lower house.
Judge Caton was regarded as a wheelhorse of the democratic party in Washington State politics. He was a close friend of Judge George Turner.
Until recently he spent much of his time in Davenport and was well-known in the Big Bend Country of Washington State.
The body will be shipped to Spokane for funeral services and interment.
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
02 Oct 1916, Mon Page 6
transcribed by Kerry 48011981
==
HONORABLE NATHAN T. CATON
This is a name well and favorably known throughout Washington. Eminent as a jurist the subject of this article is one of the earliest pioneers in the Big Bend country, having come here anterior to the creation of Washington as a territory.
Nathan T. Caton, now a prominent attorney residing at Davenport, Lincoln county, Was., was born in St. Louis, on January 6, 1832.
His parents were George W. Caton b. abt 1800 Fairfax County, VA., ~ D. Unknown and Sarah Haus(Moore) Caton. The father, a native of Alexandria, Virginia; the mother of Westmoreland county, Maryland.
The paternal grandfather was an Irishman and served with distinction in the Revolution. Our subject well remembers hearing him describe the battle of Monmouth. He died at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.
The father of Judge Caton, who was by avocation a tailor, was born in 1800 and passed away at the conclusion of the Civil War, in 1865.
The maternal grandfather was Nathan Moore, a soldier during the War of 1812. He participated in the battle of Bladensburg, at the time Washington city was burned by the British, and the mother of our subject was in that city at the time.
The parents of Judge Caton were removed to Booneville, Missouri, when he was less than a year old. Subsequently, he was matriculated at Columbia University, at Columbia, Boone county, but his father having met with financial reverses, was compelled to leave college in his senior year, and before graduating.
He then entered a mercantile house as a salesman and bookkeeper, and in 1849, when seventeen years of age, crossed the plains to California, driving an ox team. There he mined for a few months and early in the fifties went to Oregon where he taught school in the far-famed Willamette valley.
Returning to California in the spring of 1851 he remained there five months, then went back to the Willamette Valley where he was located when the act creating the territory of Washington was passed by congress.
In 1857 he was appointed postmaster of Salem, Oregon, serving four years, when he was elected clerk of Marion county.
He read law with Governor Lafayette Grover, who was later a United States senator from Oregon, since which period he has practiced continuously.
In 1866 he removed to Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho, practicing his profession, mining and conducting for a time a newspaper, the Owyhee Bullion.
With his family, he came to Walla Walla, Washington, practiced his profession, and was three times elected to the legislature. During his last term, Judge Caton introduced bills creating Douglas, Franklin, Adams, and Asotin counties, writing personally all of these measures and introducing them.
He was speaker of the house in 1872. He served one term as prosecuting attorney during the territorial days, and in 1898 was elected prosecuting attorney of Lincoln county, serving four years.
April 14, 1853, our subject was married to Martha A. Herren, a native of Indiana. The ceremony was solemnized in Salem, Oregon. Her father, John, was a native of Kentucky, born in 1799. He crossed the plains from Indiana as early as 1845 and died near Salem, Oregon, in 1864.
Her mother was Dosha (Robbins) Herren.
Mrs. Caton has two brothers and three sisters living: Levi M.; Noah F.; Susannah, widow of William T. Wallace; Jane, widow of John B. Keizer, and Sarilda R., wife of T. S. Leonard.
Judge Caton is a member of the K. P., of which he is past chancellor; of the A. F. & A. M., being past master; of the R. A. M., and has attended grand lodge as delegate many times. He was present and assisted in the organization of the first grand lodge of K. P. in Tacoma, and was department supreme chancellor for two terms under Supreme Chancellor S. S. Davis.
Judge and Mrs. Caton are members of the Christian church. Politically, he is a Democrat and prominent in the councils of that party.
The session laws of 1872 contain a bill passed by the territorial legislature to prevent extortions by railroads. This bill was written, introduced, and fought to its passage by the subject of this sketch. Though afterward repealed by force brought to bear by Henry Villard, then president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, it will be seen that the origin of the railroad legislation of the sort that is rightly so dear to the people of eastern Washington as the present temple dates back to 1872 and to a resident of this county, Hon. Nathan T. Caton.
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
provided by Jane 46846403
==
Nathan Thomas Caton in the Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, the 1700s-1900s
Name: Nathan Thomas Caton
Ethnicity: Scotch, Irish
Occupation: Lawyer
Birth Date: 6 Jan 1832
Birth Place: St Louis, Missouri
Marriage Date: 14 Apr 1853
Location Date: 28 Nov 1850
Location: Oregon, USA
Spouse: Martha Herren
Judge Nathan T. Caton Practiced Law At
Walla Walla Before the Railroad Came
Judge Nathan Thomas Caton, age 84, among the oldest pioneers of the Inland Empire, died at Rossland, B. C., at the home of his daughter, Mrs. H. E. Collis, Saturday night according to a report telephoned to The Spokesman-Review last night.
Judge Caton practiced law in Walla Walla long before the railroad lines through the northwest were projected. Later, he was the Superior Court Judge in Davenport, Lincoln County, Wash.
He was born in Saint Louis, Mo., in 1832 to George W. Caton b. abt 1800 in Fairfax County, VA. ~ d. Unknown. and Saraha Haus (Moore) Caton b. 27 July 1807 in MD.,
~ d. 28 Jan 1891 unknown. Four children were born to them: Rev.George Roswell Caton b. 1828–d. unknown; Nathan Thomas Caton 1832– d. 1916; Susan Sabina Caton 1835–d. Unknown; Rebecca E. Caton 1842–d. Unknown.
He was a member of the territorial legislature 40 or 45 years ago and during one session was speaker of the lower house.
Judge Caton was regarded as a wheelhorse of the democratic party in Washington State politics. He was a close friend of Judge George Turner.
Until recently he spent much of his time in Davenport and was well-known in the Big Bend Country of Washington State.
The body will be shipped to Spokane for funeral services and interment.
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington)
02 Oct 1916, Mon Page 6
transcribed by Kerry 48011981
==
HONORABLE NATHAN T. CATON
This is a name well and favorably known throughout Washington. Eminent as a jurist the subject of this article is one of the earliest pioneers in the Big Bend country, having come here anterior to the creation of Washington as a territory.
Nathan T. Caton, now a prominent attorney residing at Davenport, Lincoln county, Was., was born in St. Louis, on January 6, 1832.
His parents were George W. Caton b. abt 1800 Fairfax County, VA., ~ D. Unknown and Sarah Haus(Moore) Caton. The father, a native of Alexandria, Virginia; the mother of Westmoreland county, Maryland.
The paternal grandfather was an Irishman and served with distinction in the Revolution. Our subject well remembers hearing him describe the battle of Monmouth. He died at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.
The father of Judge Caton, who was by avocation a tailor, was born in 1800 and passed away at the conclusion of the Civil War, in 1865.
The maternal grandfather was Nathan Moore, a soldier during the War of 1812. He participated in the battle of Bladensburg, at the time Washington city was burned by the British, and the mother of our subject was in that city at the time.
The parents of Judge Caton were removed to Booneville, Missouri, when he was less than a year old. Subsequently, he was matriculated at Columbia University, at Columbia, Boone county, but his father having met with financial reverses, was compelled to leave college in his senior year, and before graduating.
He then entered a mercantile house as a salesman and bookkeeper, and in 1849, when seventeen years of age, crossed the plains to California, driving an ox team. There he mined for a few months and early in the fifties went to Oregon where he taught school in the far-famed Willamette valley.
Returning to California in the spring of 1851 he remained there five months, then went back to the Willamette Valley where he was located when the act creating the territory of Washington was passed by congress.
In 1857 he was appointed postmaster of Salem, Oregon, serving four years, when he was elected clerk of Marion county.
He read law with Governor Lafayette Grover, who was later a United States senator from Oregon, since which period he has practiced continuously.
In 1866 he removed to Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho, practicing his profession, mining and conducting for a time a newspaper, the Owyhee Bullion.
With his family, he came to Walla Walla, Washington, practiced his profession, and was three times elected to the legislature. During his last term, Judge Caton introduced bills creating Douglas, Franklin, Adams, and Asotin counties, writing personally all of these measures and introducing them.
He was speaker of the house in 1872. He served one term as prosecuting attorney during the territorial days, and in 1898 was elected prosecuting attorney of Lincoln county, serving four years.
April 14, 1853, our subject was married to Martha A. Herren, a native of Indiana. The ceremony was solemnized in Salem, Oregon. Her father, John, was a native of Kentucky, born in 1799. He crossed the plains from Indiana as early as 1845 and died near Salem, Oregon, in 1864.
Her mother was Dosha (Robbins) Herren.
Mrs. Caton has two brothers and three sisters living: Levi M.; Noah F.; Susannah, widow of William T. Wallace; Jane, widow of John B. Keizer, and Sarilda R., wife of T. S. Leonard.
Judge Caton is a member of the K. P., of which he is past chancellor; of the A. F. & A. M., being past master; of the R. A. M., and has attended grand lodge as delegate many times. He was present and assisted in the organization of the first grand lodge of K. P. in Tacoma, and was department supreme chancellor for two terms under Supreme Chancellor S. S. Davis.
Judge and Mrs. Caton are members of the Christian church. Politically, he is a Democrat and prominent in the councils of that party.
The session laws of 1872 contain a bill passed by the territorial legislature to prevent extortions by railroads. This bill was written, introduced, and fought to its passage by the subject of this sketch. Though afterward repealed by force brought to bear by Henry Villard, then president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, it will be seen that the origin of the railroad legislation of the sort that is rightly so dear to the people of eastern Washington as the present temple dates back to 1872 and to a resident of this county, Hon. Nathan T. Caton.
Transcribed from "An Illustrated History of The Big Bend Country, embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin counties, State of Washington", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.
provided by Jane 46846403
==
Nathan Thomas Caton in the Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File, the 1700s-1900s
Name: Nathan Thomas Caton
Ethnicity: Scotch, Irish
Occupation: Lawyer
Birth Date: 6 Jan 1832
Birth Place: St Louis, Missouri
Marriage Date: 14 Apr 1853
Location Date: 28 Nov 1850
Location: Oregon, USA
Spouse: Martha Herren
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