The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 101

GEORGE F. McAULAY.

George F. McAulay, who for more than fifteen years has been an active
practitioner at the bar of Yakima, was born in Caseville, Michigan, October 9,
1870, a son of Arthur K. and Nancy T. (Fisher) McAulay. In 1895 the family
removed to Baker, Oregon, where the parents resided until 1912 and then became
residents of Yakima, where the father passed away in 1914. The mother, however,
is still living. Mr. McAulay had devoted his life to the occupation of farming.

In the public schools of his native state George F. McAulay pursued his early
education and later attended the Ohio Northern University from which he was
graduated in the class of 1895 with the degree of B. A. In preparation for a
professional career he entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and won
his Bachelor of Laws degree upon graduation with the class of 1902. He then
practiced for a short time at Baker, Oregon, but in the fall of that year
removed to North Yakima, where he has since made his home and has continuously
followed his profession, winning a place among the leading lawyers of the
valley. He prepares his cases with great thoroughness and care and his practice
is extensive and of an important character. At no time has his reading ever been
confined to the limitations of the questions at issue; it has gone beyond and
compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected but for the
unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as frequently as out of them. His
legal learning, his analytical mind, the readiness with which he grasps the
points in an argument, all combine to make him one of the capable lawyers of the
Yakima valley.

In 1897 Mr. McAulay was married to Miss Annie M. Bankerd, of Lewisburg, Ohio.
Their children, five in number, are John H., Annie, Jean, Martha and Agnes.
Fraternally Mr. McAulay is connected with Yakima Lodge No. 24, F. & A. M., and
with Rose Croix Chapter, in which he has attained the eighteenth degree of the
Scottish Rite. He is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church and for
many years has served as trustee and also as president of the board of trustees.
He is also a trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association and takes an
active interest in all of those uplifting influences which work for the benefit
of the individual. In politics he is a democrat and has served as chairman of
the democratic county central committee of Yakima county. For three years he
served on the Yakima Board of Education. In June, 1917, he left Yakima for
Brazil, South America, in behalf of a syndicate of local men who hold landed
interests in that country, the immediate purpose for going being the
investigation of titles and economic conditions. He traveled in several
Brazilian states and came in contact with many of the representative men of that
country. He arrived home in February, 1918. He belongs to the Washington State
Bar Association and to the Yakima County Bar Association and his interests and
activities are always directed along lines which tend to advance the material,
intellectual, social and moral progress of the community.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.