"Early History of Thurston County, Washington; Together with Biographies and
Reminiscences of those Identified with Pioneer Days." Compiled and Edited by
Mrs. George E. (Georgiana) Blankenship.  Published in Olympia, Washington, 1914.
p. 370.
 
CHARLES E. CLAYPOOL

     Charles Ethelbert Claypool, at present Judge of Department 2 of the
Superior Court for Thurston County, was born in Indiana in 1861. He came to
Puget Sound in the late territorial days. and was one of the prominent younger
men in the days of early statehood. He was for many years with the National
Guard, and served on the personal staffs of the last Territorial and first State
Governors, was State Senator from Pierce County in the second and third
legislatures, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, and Assistant U. S. Attorney. For a
long time he was tlie head of the law firm of Claypool. Cushman & Cushman, at
Tacoraa. He. went to Alaska in 1900 resigning his government post for that
purpose, returning to make his home at Olympia several years ago. Judge Claypool
served two years and a half as City Attorney of Olympia, resigning that office
to accept an appointment to the bench by Governor Lister in 1913. He was opposed
by three other aspirants at the late primary and did not receive the nomination.
He married an Olympia girl, Miss Annie B. Cowles twenty-four years ago, and they
have two children, a son and a daughter. The family live in their own home at
1617 Sylvester Street.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios. Project in May 2007 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.