Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Burley, Robert M. January 6, 1885 - 
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     ROBERT M. BURLEY stands among the leading members of the Multnomah county 
bar and is regarded as an authority in his special branch of law practice, 
that of real property. He has proven a sound and reliable attorney and has 
built up a large and lucrative practice. Mr. Burley was born in Walhalla, 
North Dakota, on the 6th of January, 1885, and is a son of Nelson R. and Maude 
(Spafford) Burley, who were natives of Canada and located in North Dakota in 
1883. Mr. Burley was an extensive rancher and was interested in various lines 
of business, owning a bank, a drug store, a brick yard and other enterprises 
and was a man of prominence and influence in his section of the state. He is 
now deceased and his widow now makes her home with her son, Robert M., in 
Portland. Robert M. Burley received a good public school education, after 
which he read law in the office of the attorney-general of his state. He 
entered the law school of the University of Oregon, from which he was 
graduated, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in 1911, was admitted to the 
bar, and at once entered upon the practice of his profession in Portland. In 
the legal circles of this section of the state he is highly regarded as an 
erudite, resourceful and successful practitioner and devotes his attention 
largely to real property, loans, titles, estates and kindred lines, commanding 
a representative clientele.

     Mr. Burley was united in marriage to Miss Hulda Nelson, who was born and 
reared in this state. In his political views Mr. Burley is a republican and 
has shown a deep interest in everything concerning the public welfare. He is a 
thirty-second degree Mason and Noble of the Mystic Shrine and he belongs to 
the United Artisans, and to the Portland Golf Club, of which he is a director, 
the Chamber of Commerce, the Multnomah County Bar Association and the Oregon 
State Bar Association. He is financially interested in a number of business 
enterprises, including the Blair Granite Quarries, at Ashland, of which he is 
a director, the Red Stamp Company, the Oregon Pacific Savings and Loan 
Association and others, and has an interest in a fine dairy farm in Clatsop 
county. He bears an unsullied reputation as an exemplar, of the highest civic 
virtues as well as of the noble ethics of the legal profession and his 
abilities and attainments command the respect of all who know him, while his 
splendid social qualities have gained for him many warm friends.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
920

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