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Matthew Paul Deady (May 12, 1824 – March 24, 1893) was a politician and jurist in the Oregon Territory and the state of Oregon of the United States. He served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1853 to 1859, at which time he was appointed to the newly created federal court of the state. He remained on this federal trial level court, the United States District Court for the District of Oregon in Portland, Oregon, as the sole judge until his death in 1893. While on the court he presided over the trial that led to the United States Supreme Court decision of ''Pennoyer v. Neff'' concerning personal jurisdiction. Prior to joining the court, Deady served in the legislature of the Oregon Territory, including time served as the President of the Council, and was elected as President of the Oregon Constitutional Convention in 1857. A native of the state of Maryland, his first profession was as a blacksmith. He would also spend time as a teacher in both Ohio and Oregon. Deady read law in Ohio and practiced law for a time in that state before immigrating to the Oregon Territory via the Oregon Trail. In Oregon, he helped codify the laws of the state and assisted in the foundation of the Multnomah County Library in Portland. He also was president of the University of Oregon's board of regents. The university renamed Deady Hall in his honor after his death. == Early life == Matthew Deady was born near Easton, Talbot County, Maryland, on May 12, 1824.〔Corning, Howard M. (1956). ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing. pp. 70-71.〕 His parents were Daniel Deady and the former Mary Ann McSweeny.〔 His father was born in Ireland on September 25, 1794, and married McSweeny on June 10, 1823.〔Hines, H. K. (1893). ''An illustrated history of the state of Oregon; containing a history of Oregon from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future; illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men and biographical mention of many of its pioneers and prominent citizens of to-day.'' Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. pp. 349-53.〕 Matthew was the oldest of five children in the family.〔 He began his education at the school where his father was a teacher, remaining at that school until the age of twelve.〔 In 1828, the family relocated from the Baltimore, Maryland, area to Wheeling Virginia now (West Virginia).〔 The Deadys also lived for brief periods of time in Cincinnati, Ohio, Rodney, Missouri, and Covington, Kentucky.〔Colmer, Montagu, and Charles Erskine Scott Wood. (1910). ''History of the Bench and Bar of Oregon''. Portland, Or: Historical Pub. Co. p. 264.〕 In Wheeling, his father was employed as a teacher and principal at the Lancasterian Academy.〔 On May 31, 1834, his mother died while the family was living in Wheeling.〔 Deady’s family was split up, with Matthew sent back to Baltimore for two years.〔 In Baltimore, he lived with an uncle and grandfather while working in a store.〔 Deady then returned to Wheeling to live with his father while attending school and working in a local music shop.〔 In the Spring of 1837 he moved just across the Ohio River to the state of Ohio where his father had purchased a farm in Beaver Township.〔 Matthew Deady spent the next four years working for his father on the family farm, engaged in manual labor, while also reading extensively in his spare time.〔 On February 17, 1841, he left home after a disagreement with his father and moved to Barnesville, Ohio.〔 For four years he lived with the family of John Kelly, working as a blacksmith’s apprentice.〔 Beginning in 1843, Deady attended Barnesville Academy, continuing his education there until four months beyond the time that his blacksmith apprenticeship ended.〔 The apprenticeship had paid for the first six months of school.〔 At the school he earned a certificate that allowed him to become a teacher on July 7, 1845, from his instructor Nathan R. Smith.〔 After graduating, Deady began teaching to pay off a debt incurred for his education, and began to read law.〔 He read law in St. Clairsville, Ohio, under the guidance of judge and former Congressman William Kennon.〔 Deady passed the Ohio bar on October 26, 1847, and began practicing law in St. Clairsville at the office of Henry Kennon.〔 He remained there until on April 17, 1849, he began his overland journey over the Oregon Trail to the newly created Oregon Territory.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew Deady」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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