Lewis Linn McArthur
| Lewis Linn McArthur | |
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| 20th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | |
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In office 1870–1878 |
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| Preceded by | Benoni Whitten |
| Succeeded by | position eliminated |
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| Born | March 18, 1843 Virginia |
| Died | May 10, 1897 (aged 54) Portland, Oregon |
| Spouse(s) | Harriet K. Nesmith |
Lewis Linn McArthur (March 18, 1843 – May 10, 1897) was an American newspaper publisher and judge in the state of Oregon. He was an Oregon Supreme Court associate justice and the father of Lewis A. McArthur, the first editor of the Oregon Geographic Names publications. He served on the court from 1870 to 1878. Another son, Clifton Nesmith McArthur, would serve in the United States Congress.
Lewis McArthur was born on March 18, 1843, in the state of Virginia. Born in Portsmouth, his father was a US naval officer and hydrologist, Lieutenant Commander William Pope McArthur, and his mother was Mary Stone Young McArthur. McArthur's father died at sea in 1850 while returning from a U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey mission to survey the Oregon Coast. His father was the nephew of Missouri Senator Lewis F. Linn. Lewis McArthur grew up in Portsmouth and Baltimore, Maryland, before attending Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he started in 1857, but did not graduate. He then went to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In Rhode Island he passed the bar in 1864 and then moved to Oregon.
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