Cowlitz-King County WA Archives Biographies.....Paul, Charles Henry June 18, 1890 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wa/wafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com January 24, 2011, 2:12 pm Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 791 - 792 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company CHARLES HENRY PAUL, of Longview, head of the legal department of the Long- Bell Lumber Company and its various subsidiary organizations, stands in the front rank of the able and skilled lawyers of Washington, for he has not only been notably successful in the practice of his profession but has been particularly effective in the statewide movement for the reformation of methods of court procedure. Judge Paul was born in Los Angeles, California, on the 18th of June, 1890, and is a son of John Ward and Lottie (Frost) Paul. The Paul family, which is of English origin, was established in Newton, Massachusetts, prior to 1700, and one of Judge Paul's ancestors was General Artemas Ward, who was commander in chief of the American forces prior to handing over his command to General Washington. The family is related to the late Vice President Fairbanks. John Ward Paul, who was born in Newton, Massachusetts, December 15, 1861, followed farming for many years but is now retired and lives in Hollywood, California. His wife, whose family came from Scotland to this country prior to 1800, was born in Otis, Massachusetts, January 3, 1870, and died April 19, 1925. Charles H. Paul attended the public and high schools of Newton, Massachusetts, and then entered Yale University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1912. He took a prominent part in athletics there, playing as right tackle on the varsity football team in 1909- 10-11, and in 1910 was the choice of many athletic authorities for all- American tackle. He rowed with the freshman eight in 1909 and was president of the Yale Debating Society. He received his legal education at Harvard Law School and in 1914 went to Seattle, where he was admitted to the Washington bar. He became associated with the law firm of Hughes, McKicken, Dovell & Ramsey and was later with Bogle, Graves, Merritt & Bogle. In 1917 he formed a partnership with E. H. Flick and established offices in Seattle, but his law practice was interrupted by his entry into the military service of his country. On his return to civil life he resumed the partnership practice, which was continued until 1922, when the firm relationship was dissolved and he practiced alone until his election as judge of the superior court of Washington for King county, being at that time the youngest man ever elected to the bench of the superior court in this state. He discharged his judicial duties in an able manner until 1926, when he resigned to accept his present position as attorney for the Long-Bell interests. He also represents several other corporations located in Longview and at the same time conducts a general law practice. Judge Paul drafted and successfully fathered the bill providing for the establishment of a judicial council for the reform in the judicial procedure in Washington, and his speech before the Oregon State Bar Association urging its adoption was a masterly effort and attracted wide attention. This bill, together with a bill on his rulemaking power, also sponsored by Judge Paul, represents one of the greatest advances in the reform of court procedure that has been made in this country, and Chief Justice Taft of the United States supreme court, who is an earnest advocate of such reform in all of the courts of this country, was an enthusiastic supporter of Judge Paul's work in this direction. Judge Paul has been a frequent contributor to legal magazines, his articles appearing in the Minnesota Law Review, Journal of the Society of American Judicature, the Washington Law Review and other periodicals. He is a member of the national committee in charge of the formation and operation of the United States Federation of Justice and was a member of the anti-crime commission, a national body of which Justice Black of New York was chairman. He has been recognized as one of the leading authorities on judicial councils and the reform of judicial procedure and is a frequent speaker before bar associations and the public upon these subjects. He was the first secretary of the Washington State Judicial Council. On June 5, 1915, at West Newton, Massachusetts, Judge Paul was united in marriage to Miss Alice Paine, who was born at Westboro, Massachusetts, and is a daughter of N. Emmons and Harriet Banks (Gould) Paine. Her father, who was a native of Albany, New York, became a noted physician and lectured in Boston University for many years on nervous diseases. He was the founder of the Westboro Insane Hospital in Massachusetts and his father was one of the founders of the homeopathic system of medicine in this country. Mrs. Paul is a graduate of Wellesley College and is an artist as an aesthetic or rhythmic dancer and a modeller of masks for dancing similar to the well known Benda masks. She has done much interpretative dancing, has served as instructor in the Perry Mansfield Dancing School at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and has produced several pageants in Seattle for the Fine Arts Society. While in Wellesley she was a leader in dramatic work and also rowed with the famous Wellesley crew. Judge and Mrs. Paul are the parents of three children, namely: Charlotte, born May 22, 1916; Jacqueline, September 14, 1921; and Mary Gould, October 15, 1923. Judge Paul is an active supporter of the republican party, having served as chairman of the King county republican convention in 1924, and was a delegate to the state convention. He served two years a secretary of the Seattle Bar Association. He is a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and Skull and Bones Society. He was the organizer and first commander of Rainier- Noble Post of the American Legion at Seattle, which was at that time the largest American Legion post west of the Mississippi river, having three thousand, five hundred members, and is a past member of the state executive committee. He was one of the organizers of the United Veterans Club, of Seattle, of which he was president in 1922-23, and was one of the organizers and the first president of the Seattle Optimist Club in 1923. While in Seattle he was affiliated with the Congregational church but since coming to Longview has devoted his religious activities to the Young Men's Christian Association, in which he is doing effective and appreciated work. Judge Paul has a splendid military record in the World war. He entered the second officers' training camp at the Presidio, San Francisco, and on November 23, 1917, was commissioned a first lieutenant. He was sent to the Ninety-first Division at Camp Lewis, where he was assigned to Company L, Three Hundred and Sixty-fourth Infantry Regiment. He went overseas with his command in June, 1918, and while taking part in the Argonne offensive, in Bois de Baulny, on September 28, 1918, was severely wounded by German hand grenades. He attributes the saving of his life to the prompt action of Lieutenant Kenneth Cooper of Portland, Oregon, a fellow officer. He was confined to hospitals in France, the greater part of the time in Base Hospital 6 at Bordeaux, and on December 14, 1918, returned to his home country, being honorably discharged at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1919, with the rank of first lieutenant. Because of his abilities and attainments, as well as for his exemplification of the highest civic virtues, Judge Paul commands the unqualified respect of his fellowmen and is an honor to the profession which he represents. 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