Biography of Robert Sharp Bean, 1899, State of Oregon
Surnames: Bean, Condon, Sharp

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Oregon Native Son, Vol. 1, May 1899, page 60

ROBERT SHARP BEAN

Hon. R. S. Bean was born in Yamhill county, November 28, 1854. His father, 0.
S. Bean, a native of Missouri, came to Oregon in 1852, and settled in Yamhill
county, where he married Miss Julia A. Sharp. In 1855 he moved to Lane county,
near Eugene, where he died in March, 1890. Here the judge passed his boyhood
on a farm during the summer and attending the district school in winter, until
September, 1869, when he entered Christian college, now the state normal
school, at Monmouth, where he graduated in June, 1873. He then worked at the
carpenter's trade for about a year, when he entered the office of Hon. 3. M.
Tompson, in Eugene, as a law student. In December, 1876, he was admitted to
the bar, and soon thereafter entered into a partnership with Mr. Tompson, with
whom he was associated until that gentleman’s death, in February, 1882. In
September, 1877, he entered the state university, and graduated with the first
class of that institution in 1878. In June, 1882, he was elected judge of the
second judicial district, to fill the unexpired term of J. F. Watson, who
resigned to accept the appointment of United States district attorney. In 1886
he was reelected for the full term of six years, but before the expiration of
that time he was elected an associate justice of the supreme court By the
rotation in office provided by law, in 1894 he became chief justice. In
September, 1880, he married Miss Ina E. Condon, daughter of Professor Thomas
ondon, the eminent geologist, who came to Oregon in 1853 as a 
Congregationalist missionary. Judge Bean is a man of industrious habits, fond
of home and devoted to his profession; in no sense a politician, but every
inch a lawyer, a conscientious and a just judge, in whom the people of the
state have great confidence. For many years he has been on the board of
regents of the state university, and is now president of that body.