Background
Hadley, Hiram Elwood was born on January 16, 1854 in Sylvania, Indiana, United States. Son of Jonathan and Martha (McCoy) Hadley.
Hadley, Hiram Elwood was born on January 16, 1854 in Sylvania, Indiana, United States. Son of Jonathan and Martha (McCoy) Hadley.
Educated Bloomingdale (Indiana) Academy and Earlham College. Bachelor of Laws, Union College of Law, Chicago, 1877. Doctor of Laws, Earlham College, 1908.
Practiced law, Bloomington, Illinois, 1877-1881, Rockville, Indiana, 1881-1889. Removed to Whatcom, Washington, 1889. City attorney, 1891-1892.
Superior judge.
Whatcom Company, Washington, 1897-1901. Associate justice, March 1901-January 1907, chief justice, January 1907-January 1909, Supreme Court of the Washington. Declined reëlection; resumed practice, January 1909.
Now member Hadley, Hay & Hadley, Seattle.
Mason.
Married Martha Musgrave, January 16, 1879. Children: Roy Overman, Clyde Musgrave, Earl Jonathan, Mistress Inez Hadley Pierce, Mistress Katharine Hadley Farris.