Washington County OR Archives Biographies.....Lamkin, D. M. D., Charles A.  1882 - 
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     DR. CHARLES A. LAMKIN, of Hillsboro, Oregon, has earned a wide reputation 
as a skilled, careful and painstaking dentist, and therefore enjoys a large 
practice, while as a citizen of genuine worth he is held in high regard by his 
fellowmen. He is a native of the city in which he lives, having been born here 
in 1882, and is a son of James C. and Mary (Archbold) Lamkin. His father was 
born in Missouri, November 27, 1846, and died in Hillsboro, June 29, 1924, 
while his mother was born in Woodsfield, Monroe county, Ohio, and died in 
Hillsboro, April 4, 1928. She was a daughter of Edward Archbold, who was born 
in Washington D. C.  James C. Lamkin was reared and educated in Missouri, 
where he learned the tinsmith trade, and later followed that line of work in 
Nebraska City, Nebraska, where he was married in 1870. In 1875 he came to 
Hillsboro, Oregon, where his wife's brother, A. C. Archbold, had been located 
since 1864. For about a year he was employed in Mr. Archbold's general store, 
after which he established a tinner's shop, in which he carried a stock of 
tinware. He added to his stock and gradually developed it into a hardware 
store, one of the first of its kind in this town. In 1893 he formed a 
partnership with Mr. Archbold and ran a hardware and tinware business for some 
time, eventually dissolving partnership, at which time Mr. Lamkin took the 
tinshop and Mr. Archbold the hardware business. From 1913 to 1920 Mr. Lamkin 
served as postmaster of Hillsboro, after which he devoted his attention to his 
tinshop as long as physically able to do so. He took an active interest in the 
affairs of his city and served two terms as a member of the council. He was a 
stanch democrat in his political views and was long a member of the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he passed through the chairs 
several times. He possessed a thirty-five-year veteran's jewel and at the time 
of his death was almost entitled to a forty-year jewel. He served in the 
Confederate army during the Civil war and was twice captured and turned back 
home when, as a young man, he was trying to reach Price's army. His wife was a 
number of the Degree of Honor, in which she had passed through the chairs; the 
Daughters of Rebekah, in which she had passed through the chairs twice, and 
was the first president of the Hillsboro Coffee Club, a women's civic 
organization. To Mr. and Mrs. Lamkin were born two children, namely: Alta L., 
who is the widow of J. M. Wall and lives in Portland, is the mother of four 
children, Edward, Evelyn, Howard and Allen; and Charles A.

     In the Oregon Daily Journal of December 12, 1922, Fred Lockley printed 
the following interview with this worthy old couple: "Later I dropped in for a 
brief visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lamkin, pioneer residents of the county 
seat of Washington county. We have lived in Hillsboro more than forty-seven 
years,' said Mr. Lamkin. ‘We bought seven acres on the edge of town when we 
came here, and now the town as grown all around us and I have given away most 
of my seven acres, retaining a good-sized lot for our home. I was born in 
Arkansas, November 27, 1846. I was one of the pioneer hardware merchants of 
Hillsboro. I was postmaster seven years. I resigned two years ago.'

     "'No, I was not born in Arkansas, like my husband,' said Mrs. Lamkin, 'I 
am a Buckeye. My maiden name was Mary Archbold. My father's name was Edward 
Archbold. He and John D. Archbold were sons of brothers. John D. Archbold got 
in with John D. Rockefeller and became first vice president of the Standard 
Oil Com¬pany. My father was born at Washington, D. C.  I met my husband at 
Nebraska City, Nebraska. We were married June 19, 1870, and in 1875 came to 
Oregon. My brother, A. C. Archbold, came to Oregon in 1864 and was a merchant 
here in Hillsboro. No, there are not many of the people now here who were here 
nearly fifty years ago when we came here. The Baileys, Wehrungs, Boscoes, 
Tongues, Hares and one or two others are still here. We have had two children. 
My daughter Alta married John M. Wall, an attorney here, and our son, Charles 
Archbold Lamkin, is a dentist here.'"

     Charles A. Lamkin received his early education in the public schools of 
Hillsboro and before fifteen years of age went to work in Bailey's pharmacy, 
in which he was employed for ten years. He then engaged in the hardware 
business, which he carried on for two years, after which he was in the county 
tax department at intervals for eight years. He then entered the North Pacific 
Dental College, from which he was graduated, with the degree of Doctor of 
Dental Medicine, in 1918, since which time he has been engaged in the practice 
of dentistry in this city. He has a nicely furnished and well equipped office 
in the Commercial National Bank building and is commanding a very satisfactory 
practice, due to the uniformly high quality of his work and his courteous and 
gentlemanly manner.

     In 1919 Dr. Lamkin was united in marriage to Mrs. Cora (Rhea) Bagley, who 
was born in Heppner, Morrow county, Oregon, and is a daughter of Thomas A. and 
Henrietta (Cecil) Rhea, the latter now deceased. Mr. Rhea first came to Oregon 
with a brother in 1859, when fourteen years old, locating near Eugene, but 
later going to Morrow county, in eastern Oregon, where he engaged in the 
cattle business. There he met and married Henrietta Cecil, whose family had 
crossed the plains, with ox teams and covered wagons, reaching The Dalles in 
1861. Later they too located in eastern Oregon. Dr. Lamkin has been a member 
of the Masonic order since 1903 and is a member of the board of directors of 
the Chamber of Commerce. His wife belongs to the Hillsboro Women's Club and is 
popular in social circles. The Doctor is a man of splendid personal qualities, 
loyal and true in every relation, and in this community where he has spent his 
life he commands the uniform respect and good will of all who know him.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 624-626

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