Clark-Whatcom County WA Archives Biographies.....Connor, M. M. 1871 - 
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Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     M. M. CONNOR of Vancouver is regarded as one of the leading lawyers of 
the Columbia River Valley and has a large and representative clientele, being 
recognized as an authority on corporation law, in which he specializes. He was 
born in Champaign county, Illinois, in 1871, a son of M. T. and Mary Connor, 
both of whom died in Denver, Colorado. The family moved to southwestern Iowa 
when he was yet a boy and there he received his education, attending the 
public schools and an academy at Corning, after which he became a student in 
the University of Iowa but did not graduate. He accompanied his parents on 
their removal to Denver, Colorado, where in 1893 he began reading law in the 
office of T. M. Patterson. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and engaged in 
the practice of his profession in Denver, until 1898, when he came to 
Washington, locating in Bellingham (then called Whatcom), where he conducted a 
law practice until 1905, since which year he has been a resident of Vancouver. 
Soon after coming here he formed a law partnership with ex-Senator E. W. 
Rands, with whom he remained associated until that gentleman's death, since 
which time he has been alone. He possesses to a marked degree the essential 
qualifications of the successful lawyer and holds a place in the front rank of 
the able and dependable attorneys of the Clark county bar.

     While living in Bellingham, Mr. Connor married Miss Isabel Hugenin, a 
native of Iowa and a daughter of Robert and Anna Hugenin, both of whom are 
deceased.  They were numbered among the pioneers of Bellingham, to which city 
they came in Mrs. Connor's young girlhood. Mr. and Mrs. Connor have a 
daughter, Madeline.

     Mr. Connor is a member of the Clark County Bar Association and the 
Washington State Bar Association. He served three years as city attorney of 
Vancouver and drew up the first ordinance for the improvement of a street 
under the special assessment law. He is a trustee of the Northwestern Electric 
Company and is secretary of the Marshall Pain Veneer Company, being also 
counsel for that concern, as well as many other corporations in this city and 
county. Sterling integrity and a close observance of the ethics of his 
profession have marked his career, and no citizen of Vancouver commands to a 
greater degree the unqualified confidence and respect of the people among whom 
he lives.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
544

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