Washington County OR Archives Biographies.....Dyke, Walter P. February 21, 1873 - 
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     WALTER P. DYKE.  For eighteen years Walter P. Dyke has practiced in 
Forest Grove and the extent and importance of the legal interests intrusted to 
his care establish him as one of its leading attorneys. He was born February 
21, 1873, in the eastern part of Tennessee and his parents, C. J. and Margaret 
(De Busk) Dyke, were also natives of that state. During the Civil war the 
father served in Company D of the Eleventh Missouri Infantry and never enjoyed 
good health afterward. The family lived for a time in Texas and migrated to 
the Pacific northwest in 1887. They settled near Grants Pass, Oregon, and C. 
J. Dyke filed on a homestead. The tract was covered with timber and the 
remainder of his life was devoted to the task of clearing and developing the 
ranch. Death summoned him in 1889 and the mother passed away in the same year.

     Walter P. Dyke obtained his early instruction in the Lone Star state and 
attended the high school at Grants Pass. He was graduated from McMinnville 
College in 1905 and completed his education in the University of Oregon, from 
which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1910. From 1907 until 1910 he lived 
in Hillsboro, where he conducted a fire insurance office during the day and 
attending law school at night. Left an orphan at the age of sixteen, he 
secured an education through hard work and self-denial and in June, 1910, was 
admitted to the bar. Since November, 1910, he has followed his profession in 
Forest Grove and is now serving as city attorney, an office for which he is 
well qualified by reason of his legal acumen and experience. He never enters 
the courtroom without preparation as thorough as time and means render 
possible and rarely loses a case. As the years have passed his prestige as a 
lawyer has steadily increased and his clientele is now of large proportions.

     In 1911 Mr. Dyke was married near Seattle, Washington, to Miss May 
Greenman, a native of that state and a member of one of its pioneer families. 
Their children are Walter P. Jr., Ruth W. and Robert Joseph, aged respectively 
thirteen, ten and eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Dyke joined the First Baptist 
church of Hillsboro, of which he was a trustee for a number of years. His wife 
belongs to the Woman's Club of Forest Grove and he is a member of the Rotary 
Club. Through his identification with the Chamber of Commerce Mr. Dyke is 
working for the best interests of the town and is also connected with the 
Knights of Pythias and the Washington County and Oregon State Bar 
Associations. In 1905, while living in McMinnville, he was chosen a member of 
the Oregon Fire Relief Association, with which he is still connected, and for 
many years was secretary and a trustee of Linfield College. For nine years he 
was a school director and during the World war acted as city recorder for some 
time. Mr. Dyke has faithfully and efficiently discharged the numerous trusts 
reposed in him and exerts his talents as readily for the general good as for 
his own aggrandizement. He has made his own way in the world and deserves much 
credit for what he has accomplished.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 834-835

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