William Strong (Oregon judge)
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| 4th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | |
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In office 1850–1853 |
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| Appointed by | Zachary Taylor |
| Preceded by | Peter Hardeman Burnett |
| Succeeded by | Cyrus Olney |
| Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court | |
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In office 1858–1861 |
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| Born | July 15, 1817 St. Albans, Vermont |
| Died | April 10, 1887 (aged 69) Portland, Oregon |
| Spouse(s) | Lucretia Robinson |
William Strong (July 15, 1817 – April 10, 1887) was an American attorney and jurist in the Pacific Northwest. He was the 4th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court when the region was still the Oregon Territory. A native of Vermont, he settled in the Washington Territory after it was created in 1853 and served in the legislature of that territory and on the Washington Supreme Court. Later he returned to Oregon and settled in Portland.
Strong was born on July 15, 1817 in St. Albans, Vermont to Laura Strong and Henry Pierce Strong, a preacher. He earned his primary education near the town of Rushville, New York, before entering Yale College (now university) at the age of seventeen. William graduated from Yale in 1838 and then began teaching while also studying law. At Yale he graduated with honors and then after graduation served as a principal at a school in Ithaca, New York. There in 1840 he married Lucretia Robinson, and the couple would have six children together. Then in 1840 he passed the bar and started practicing law in Cleveland, Ohio where the couple remained until 1849.
In August 1850 William Strong arrived in the Oregon Territory after being appointed by President Taylor to the Oregon Supreme Court the previous year. The trip to Oregon for the family started aboard the ship Supply that took them around Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America to San Francisco, California where they transferred to a sloop-of-war vessel named the Falmouth that delivered them to Astoria, Oregon on August 13. On the trip were also Strong’s wife and two children, the new secretary for the territory Edward D. Hamilton, and the new governor John P. Gaines, but Strong’ oldest son Frederick died after contracting Yellow Fever in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Strong family would then settle on a farm in Cathlamet on the Columbia River where William would file a land claim under the Donation Land Claim Act on September 27.
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