Multnomah-Washington County OR Archives Biographies.....Ridgway, Albert B. October 2, 1885 - 
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     ALBERT B. RIDGWAY is numbered among the leading members of the Multnomah
county bar and holds a high place in public esteem. Born in Washington, D. C., 
on the 2d of October, 1885, he is a son of Eugene Albert and Isabella J. 
(Heiberger) Ridgway and a direct descendant of James Ridgway, who came from 
England to America in the seventeenth century. The family was established in 
Washington, D. C., soon after the city was laid out, and there Eugene A. 
Ridgway was long engaged in the contracting business. Both parents are now 
deceased.

     Albert B. Ridgway attended the public schools of Washington, after which 
he pursued his classical studies in Georgetown University, from which he was 
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1907. He then entered the law 
school of his alma mater, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws in 1910. He entered upon the practice of his profession in Washington, 
but a year later came to Portland, Oregon, where he has devoted his attention 
to the practice of law continuously to the present time. He conducts a general 
civil practice, specializing in corporation and banking law, in which he is 
regarded as an authority, and has gained a representative clientele.

    In 1910 Mr. Ridgway was united in marriage to Miss Frances E. Cook, of 
Washington, D. C., and they are the parents of three children, Talbot, Eugene 
Albert and Franz. The republican party claims Mr. Ridgway's political 
allegiance and he is a member of the Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, the 
Arlington Club, the City Club and the Portland Chamber of Commerce. He is a 
member of the Multnomah County Bar Association; the Oregon State Bar 
Association, of which he was secretary from 1913 to 1924 and president during 
1924-25, being the youngest man ever to serve as president of that 
organization; and the American Bar Association, of which he is a member of the 
local board of governors. For the past three years he has been executive 
secretary of the Oregon Judicial Council and is a member of the commission on 
uniform laws. He is vice president and a director of the First National Bank 
of Scappoose and served as attorney for the town of Scappoose at the time of 
its incorporation. A close and constant student of his profession, possessing 
keen analytical powers, he is careful and painstaking in everything to which 
he gives his attention, and has been found to be safe and dependable as a 
counselor and determined and resourceful in the trial of causes, so that he 
commands to a marked degree the respect of his professional colleagues and the 
confidence of all who have employed his services. Personally he is a man of 
agreeable manner and sterling qualities, whereby he has won a host of loyal 
friends.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 623-624

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