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Pleasant Grove Cemetery ~ Alva O. Condit ~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Condit, Alva O.
LAST: Condit FIRST: Alva MID: O.
GENDER: M MAIDEN NAME:  TITLE: 
BORN: 28 Apr 1862 DIED: 22 Mar 1925 BURIED: 24 Mar 1925
OCCUPATION:  Attorney
BIRTH PLACE:  Aumsville, Marion Co., Oregon
DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon
NOTES: 
MARRIED – In Portland, Oregon, Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 21, 1891, A. O. Condit, and Lillian Worth. The groom is the popular Marion county treasurer. He served as judge of Linn. Miss Worth has for two years been principal of the shorthand department of the Holmes Business college in Portland.
Woodburn Independent 24 Oct 1891
OBITUARY: 
CONDIT FUNERAL SET FOR TODAY
Well Known Attorney and Pioneer of Marion County Dies Sunday After a severe illness of many weeks, Alva O. Condit passed to the life beyond Sunday morning while confined by the malady from which he was suffering at the St. Vincent Hospital, Portland, Oregon, to which institution he had gone to seek relief three weeks previously.
He leaves to mourn his passing his widow, Lillian Condit, formerly Lillian Worth, residing at the family home on Oak street in this citym and also S. J. Condit, and H. B. Condit, two brothers who are residents of Marion county.
Mr. Condit comes of pioneer parentage and was born on a farm near Aumsville in Marion county, Oregon, on the 28th day of April 1862. He has spent his entire life in Marion county, graduating from the public schools of the state and later finishing his highter education in the University of Oregon, of which institution he is a graduate with the class of 1884.
In 1891 he was admitted to the bar of the state and has been actively engaged in the law practice at Salem, Oregon, for more than 32 years, being for the past six years associated with Ronald C. Glover in the Oregon building. He has borne a reputation for unquestioned integrity and has an extensive practice in the courts of Oregon as well as the federal courts.
From his youth Mr. Condit had taken an active part in civic, political, educational and religious affairs. He taught school for a number of years and in 1888 was elected to the office of county treasurer of Marion county, Oregon, on the republican ticket, and was re-elected to succeed himself. Later he served as the deputy of the late James G. McCain, then serving as district attorney fo the local judicial district, having special relation to criminal work in his home county. He also served as city attorney of Salem for a number of years and on the Salem school board. For a number of years he was active in military affairs, serving as adjutant of the Oregon regiment with the rank of lieutenant.
Mr. Condit possessed a deep and abiding faith in humanity and was active in fraternal and religious work most of his life. Fraternally he was a member of the Independent Order of the Oddfellows and of the Woodmen of the World.
As a Christian he was stron in faith and deep heart experiences. He joined the Presbyterian church at Pleasant Grove near Aumsville, in Marion county, Oregon, which is the oldest Presbyterian church west of the Rocky mountains now standing, and of whihc his grandfather, Philip Condit, was at one time a minister. He has been a consistant member of that church during his entire life, having been for 21 years clerk of the session of the First Presbyterian church at Salem, and being twice honored by election as a delegate from Oregon to the national or general assembly of the church.
Funeral services will be held from the First Prebyterian churchat Salem at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon with Rev. Ward Willis Long in charge and interment will be had in the family cemetery at Pleasant Grove, near Aumsville, Oregon. The active ball bearers will be chosen from the Marion County Bar association, the Independent Order of Oddfellows and from the Woodmen of the World, and the honorary pall bearers will be the entire session of the First Presbyterian church of whihc decedent was so long a member.
Daily Oregon Statesman 23 Mar 1925 1:5
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Alva O. Condit
April 28, 1862
March 22, 1925
SOURCES: 
Saucy Survey & Photographs
WI 24 Oct 1891
DOS 23 Mar 1925 1:5
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