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Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Volume II, 
Pages 114-115

	ROGERS MAC VEAGH.  No member of the Portland bar stands higher in 
public esteem than does Rogers Mac Veagh, whose record of continued 
professional success has stamped him as a man of ability.  Mr. Mac Veagh was 
born at Narrangansett Pier, Rhode Island, in 1888, and is a son of Charles and 
Fanny (Rogers) Mac Veagh.  The former, a well known attorney of New York city, 
is now United States Ambassador to Japan.  He is a son of Wayne Mac Veagh, who 
was United States Minister to Turkey in 1870 and 1871, Attorney General of the 
United States in 1881, Ambassador to Italy from 1891 to 1893, more recently 
represented the United States at the Hague Court of International Arbitration, 
and was a brother of Franklin Mac Veagh, who served as secretary of the 
Treasury in the cabinet of President Taft. Wayne Mac Veagh was a son of Major 
Mac Veagh, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and Margaret Lincoln, second cousin 
of President Abraham Lincoln.  Major Mac Veagh was the great-great-grandson of 
Edmund Mac Veagh, a native of Ireland, who came to the Colonies in 1689 and 
established the family in this country.  Fanny (Rogers) Mac Veagh is a 
daughter of Sherman Skinner Rogers and Christina Cameron (Davenport) Rogers, 
of whom the former was an attorney in Buffalo, New York, where his father, 
Gustavus Adolphus Rogers, lived before moving to Chicago.  The family is 
descended from Thomas Rogers, who came to America on the “Mayflower,” and 
whose descendants settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and later in New 
York state.  The Davenport family was of English origin and located in Bath, 
Steuben county, New York, where also settled the Camerons, who trace their 
line back through the Stewarts of Scotland to the eighth century.
	Rogers Mac Veagh, after completing his preliminary education, and 
securing a bachelor’s degree at Harvard College, entered Harvard Law School, 
where he studied from 1909 to 1912, and in the following year was admitted to 
the bar of New York state, while in 1919 he was admitted to practice before 
the United States Supreme Court.  He practiced his profession in New York city 
for one year and in 1913 came to Portland, where he has since devoted his 
attention to his profession, mainly to corporation and admiralty law.  He was 
a member of the firm of Teal, Minor & Winfree from 1916 until 1923, since 
which time he has been alone in practice, having offices in the Pacific 
building.  He commands a large and representative clientele and is regarded as 
one of Portland’s able and dependable lawyers.  During the World war Mr. Mac 
Veagh in 1917, entered the military service of his country as a first 
lieutenant of field artillery, serving overseas from June, 1918, to March, 
1919, when he was honorably discharged.
	In 1916 Mr. Mac Veagh married Miss Ellen Low Mills, a daughter of A. 
L. Mills, deceased, who was a class-mate of Charles Mac Veagh and who had 
served as president of the First National Bank.  To Mr. and Mrs. Mac Veagh 
have been born two children, Virginia Cameron, now five years of age, and 
Evelyn Mills, aged one and a half years.  Mr. Mac Veagh is a member of the 
Arlington Club, University Club, Irvington Club, Multnomah Club, the Harvard 
Club of Oregon, of which he is president, the Harvard Club of New York, the 
Harvard Club of Boston, the University Club of New York, and the American 
Legion.  He was a member of the National Americanism Commission of the 
American Legion when it was first established; was for several years state 
Americanization chairman for Oregon of the American Legion, and was the first 
Civilian Aide for Oregon to the Secretary of War, to which position he was 
appointed in 1923, after having been for some years prior in charge of the 
civilian activities in Oregon on behalf of the Citizens’ Military Training 
Camps.  He is a director of the Pacific Coast Joint Stock Land Bank and other 
corporations and has been active and influential in matters affecting the 
progress and welfare of his city and county.


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History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Volume II, 
Chicago, The S. J Clarke Publishing Company, 1928

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