Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Hamaker, Gilbert  E. October 4, 1869 - 
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     GILBERT E. HAMAKER possesses those qualities which are indispensable to 
the successful lawyer and is regarded as one of Portland's leading attorneys. 
He was born October 4, 1869, in Rochelle. Illinois, and his father, Louis C. 
Hamaker, was a progressive agriculturist. The family afterward went to Nevada, 
Iowa. Louis C. Hamaker has passed away and his widow, Mrs. Sara E. (Phillips) 
Hamaker, is now living in Idaho.

     After the completion of his high school course Gilbert E. Hamaker became 
identified with the drug business, in which he continued for several years. In 
the fall of 1899 he went to Pe Ell, Washington, and engaged in the same 
business. His leisure hours were devoted to the study of law and was in 
January, 1901, while a resident of Pe Ell, admitted to the bar. He practiced 
there for a time and in 1906 located in Chehalis, Washington, becoming 
associated with Judge Henry S. Elliott. In 1910 Mr. Hamaker left that city and 
came to Portland, where he has since followed his profession. He devotes the 
greater part of his attention to the general practice of law, a subject on 
which he is thoroughly informed, and his clientele has assumed large 
proportions.

     Mr. Hamaker was married July 6, 1892, in Webster City, Iowa, to Miss 
Flora E. Currier, a native of Wisconsin, and they have become the parents of a 
son, Robert. In 1917 he responded to the call of his country and was assigned 
to duty with a machine gun company attached to the Third Oregon Regiment of 
Infantry. During the eighteen months which he spent at the front he was gassed 
and shell-shocked, participating in a number of notable battles, and is now 
deputy clerk of the district court of Multnomah county.

     Gilbert E. Hamaker is an adherent of the democratic party and served for 
three terms as city attorney while living in Chehalis, proving his worth as a 
public prosecutor. In Masonry he holds the thirty-second degree and is also a 
member of the Mazamas Club and the Multnomah County Bar Association. A broad-
minded man, he looks at significant questions from a rational standpoint and 
reaches his conclusions after hard and logical thinking. He respects the 
unwritten ethics of his profession and stands deservedly high in public esteem.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
588

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