Carey, Charles Henry.  "History of Oregon." Vol. 3. Chicago-Portland: Pioneer
Historical Pub. Co., 1922.  p. 513.

JAMES PRESTON STAPLETON

	James Preston Stapleton, helpfully interested in all matters of public
welfare, is a citizen of worth to the community in which he makes his home.
Portland numbers him among her capable lawyers and he has been admitted to
practice before the supreme courts of both Oregon and Washington. His birth
occurred on a farm in Washington county, Oregon, January 4, 1875. His father,
John Stapleton, was born in Canada in 1833, while his father was a native of
Ireland, having emigrated to  Canada in early life. Leaving home at the age of
sixteen years, or in 1849, John Stapleton went to Iowa and was married in
Davenport, that state, to Miss Josephine Sloper, who was a native of Iowa. The
father followed the occupation of farming throughout his active life and passed
away in Polk county, Oregon, in 1900, while his widow survived until 1911. They
had become residents of this state in 1872.
	James P. Stapleton was reared on his father's farm in Polk county with the
usual experiences of the farm bred boy who divides his time between the duties
of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields.
He supplemented his district school training by a high school course in
Independence, Oregon, but put aside his textbooks when nineteen years of age and
soon afterward went to Vancouver, Washington, where he entered the law office of
his elder brother, George W. Stapleton, who directed his reading until his
admission to the bar in May, 1898. In February, 1916, James P. Stapleton came to
Portland, where he has since practiced his profession, having in the meantime
been an attorney at Vancouver for a number of years. He has devoted his
attention to general practice, not caring to specialize along a particular line,
and the salient points in his career are his qualities of honesty and integrity
as well as the cheerfulness which he displays and the careful attention which he
gives to the interests of his clients. He has been admitted to practice in the
federal and supreme courts of Washington and Oregon and his ability and devotion
to the interests of his clients has brought him prominently to the front as a
representative of the bar. He served on the legal advisory board during the
World war, also on the questionnaire board in Oregon and assisted in the various
bond drives.
	On the 4th of June, 1901, in Vancouver, Mr. Stapleton was married to Miss
Mary Josephine Geoghegan, a daughter of the late Nicholas Geoghegan, a native of
Ireland. Fraternally Mr. Stapleton is connected with the Benevolent Protective
Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World. In politics he is a republican and
the only offices he has filled have been along the path of his profession. He
was attorney for Vancouver, Washington, for six and a half years and also
district attorney of Clarke county for two terms, or four years. He is now
concentrating his attention upon the private practice of law and is making that
steady advance which results from study, close application and ready analysis of
intricate legal problems.



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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2008 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.