Deady, Matthew P
educator, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born May 12, 1824, near Easton, Md. In 1850 he was elected to the lower house of the legislature of Oregon and in 1851 to the upper house, serving as president. In 1853 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the territory, serving until the state was established, when he was appointed judge of the United States district court for Oregon. In 1857 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention which formed the state constitution, and was president of that body. In 1862 and 1864, by authority of the legislature, he prepared the Codes of Criminal and Civil Procedure, and the Penal Code of the State; and in 1865 published the General Laws of the State, and assisted in the same work in 1874. DE AHNA, EDWARD MANFRED, journalist, was born in Washington, D. C.
He is the son of Col. H. C. De Ahna, professor of chemistry and civil engineer. He is the publisher and manager of The Anchor of Sequin, Texas.