The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-05-11
JUDGE ]. L. CRESSON RETIRES.
After Serving as Z. s. Commissioner
for Twenty-Five Years.

The Nelson Leader announces that
Judge J. l.. Cresson, OF Chesaw, has
resigned his office of United States
commissioner after continuous SER
vice of twenty-five years. The Leader
devotes some space to resume or the
life of Judge Cresson, which is in
tensely interesting even if meager.
and the meargerness is no fault or the
Leader scribe. for the Judge is so sen-
satively modest that it would be al
most impossible to pry anything out
of him bearing on his life for publ
cation. From the Leader sketcl are
taken Few excerpts watch the Gazette
is so bold as to reproduce. for the SUBJ
ject of the story is so widely and
favorably known throughout the cOun-
~.
Judge Cresson was born in Mary
land, March %, 1874 and hence has
passed the three score years and ten
period some nine laps. There is no
more loyal citizen living on the map
of the United States than Judge Cres-
son and lence as was to be expected
he enlisted in the Union army at the
first call for volunteers before he had
reached the prescribed recruiting age
of Is, serving throughout the war and
taking part in some of the most i'm
portant battles that made red history
in the western zone of that gigantic
conflict. That experience did not end
in his participation in burning pow
der where burning powder provided
wings for death. After the war he
drifted to Colorado and with a sur
veying party in Montana ran foul OF
Sitting Bull and his hair lifting fol-
| lowers. but escaped with his hair.
| From Montana he went to Nevada,
then to California, then north to
Seattle. From Seattle he came into the
Okanogan country with a surveying
party and in 1897 returned and located
at Chesaw, being appointed United
! States commissioner the following
year About every settler on the north
half of the Colville reservation in this
county who filed on land and proved up
on the same did so before Judge Cres-
/
of the north part of the county who
is better known or has more friends
than the Judge.
That, briefly is the record of well
spent life, the early part of which was
full of exciting experiences, and now
few words of the man. Judge Cres-
son has reached his advanced age III
excellent physical condition with
all his faculties unimpared except
ing a failing of the eyesight, which
! has caused him much Inconvenience
of late years. His public and private
| life has been without a blemish. He Is
the very soul Of nonor and his scrupu-
lous integrity has been model tina,
Younger men could emulate to their
great advantage He is man of far
more than ordinary intelligence, has
been a close observer and insatiatt
reader. He is a most entertaining anC
companionable gentleman, with the
charming kindness and courtesy OF the
old school. Judge Cresson has pro
found convictions and always the
courage of those convictions, at the
same time he is fair and just in his
respect for the views of others. TAX
en- all around, the Judge is genial
merry old soul and gets lots OF pleas
ure out of life 1t has been our pleas
ure and privilege to know judge
Cresson good many years and W.
know of few in whom the elements o
the manly man are more thorough!
mixed We trust his going out Of Office
1oes not mean his going out OF tn
country for Chesaw and Okanogal
county could lily spare the grand oil
! man