Biography of Charles A. Johns, 1898, Baker Co., Oregon
Surnames: Johns, Ellis

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Morning Democrat, 20 May 1898 Illustrated Souvenir Edition
Bowen & Small, Publishers

Chas. A. Johns

Is one of the able lawyers of Eastern Oregon, and has attained his present
position of prominence by virtue of application to study and ambition to win.
He was born in Jackson county, Mo., June 25, 1857. When he was sixteen months
old, his parents immigrated to Oregon, settling in Marion county, where they
remained for about five years. They then removed to Scio, Linn county, where
Mr. Johns received his preliminary education. He later attended the Willamette
University at Salem, graduating in 1878. Shortly after this he was appointed
deputy sheriff of Marion county under J. A. Baker, a position he held for two
years. He then read law in the offices of Judge B. F. Harding and W. H. Holmes
and was admitted to the bar in 1880. Locating in Polk county, he practiced
there until 1888, during two years of which he served as county judge. In 1888
he moved to Baker City, and by his progressiveness soon gained a prominence.
In 1891 he was elected mayor and again in 1892. He has been a member of the
school board for two terms, and takes great interest in the school work.
Fraternally he is a Mason, Knight, Elk and Workman. He is married to Miss
Mabel Ellis, of Polk county, and has three children two boys and a girl.