Boswell, H. James. American Blue Book Western Washington. Seattle, Lowman and
Hanford Co., 1922. p. 113.

ALONZA M. HADLEY, highly successful lawyer, of Bellingham, is a brother of 
former Supreme Court Justice Hiram E. Hadley, of Seattle.  Mr. Hadley is a 
native son of the state of Indiana, and was born in 1867.  He was educated in 
the public schools and in Quaker Academy, of Bloomingdale, Ind., and Earlham 
College, of Richmond, Ind.  He was admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1891 and to 
the bar of Washington in 1898.  The firm of which Mr. Hadley is a member was 
organized in 1891.  It was first Known as Dorr, Hadley & Hadley.  In 1896 it 
became Dorr & Hadley, and in 1910 was again changed to Dorr, Hadley & Abott, 
and again in 1915 became Hadley & Abott, as it is today.  Mr. Hadley is one of 
the calm dignified attorneys of the Washington bar.  He has no patience with a 
sham and abhors the pretender.  He strikes, as I have said, in the open, and 
hits hard.  A man of high intellectual training, well road, and a deep 
thinker, he cultivates and enjoys friendships as few men can.  There is amble 
room for such men as Mr. Hadley in all cities, in all parts of the civilized 
world.  It is such men who help to build and afterwards maintain large cities.  
In 1901 Mr. Hadley married Miss Edna Beebe.  He is a thirty-second degree 
Mason and is most active in all Masonic Bodies, having held and still holding 
some of the highest offices in that fraternity.  He is also a member of the 
Elks, Shriners, Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a past member of the Board 
of Trustees, Bellingham Golf and Country club, and the county, state and 
national bar association.

Submitted by: Judy Bivens

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