The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 401 NATHAN C. RICHARDS. Nathan C. Richards, a member of the Washington bar, practicing at Yakima, his ability and position being manifest in the fact that he is now president of the Washington State Bar Association, was born in Hillsdale, Michigan, in 1867, a son of Nathan J. and Mary (Franklin) Richards. He acquired a public school education, supplemented by study in Hillsdale College, after which he took up the reading of law under the direction and in the office of the firm of Campbell & Custer of Chicago. He successfully passed the required examinations in 1888 and was admitted to the bar. In the spring of 1889 Mr. Richards arrived in Washington. He opened a law office in Tacoma, where he remained in active practice until 1895, when he removed to Baker, Oregon, where he continued until 1909. He then came to Yakima, where he has since practiced, and his ability is indicated in the large and distinctively representative clientage that has since been accorded him, connecting him with much of the most important litigation heard in the courts of the state. His contemporaries and colleagues at the bar have attested their confidence in and high respect for Mr. Richards by electing him to the presidency of the Washington State Bar Association. Outside of his profession he is also known in business circles, being the president of the Yakima Valley Transportation Company, in which connection he has supervised the construction of over forty-two miles of railway. It was to engage in the building of this line that he removed to Yakima. In 1899 Mr. Richards was united in marriage to Miss Maidie L. Rinker, of Seattle, and they occupy a most enviable position in the social circles of the city. Mr. Richards is a thirty-second degree Mason and a past venerable master of the consistory. He is also a member of the Mystic Shrine and is a past master of the blue lodge in Oregon to which he formerly belonged. He is likewise connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a stalwart republican, recognized as an active worker in party ranks but never as an office seeker. In 1904 he was a delegate to the national convention which nominated Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.