"Early History of Thurston County, Washington; Together with Biographies and
Reminiscences of those Identified with Pioneer Days." Compiled and Edited by
Mrs. George E. (Georgiana) Blankenship.  Published in Olympia, Washington, 1914.
p. 369.
 
OLIVER V. LINN

      The able attorney, who for six years occupied the position of judge of the
districts comprised by Thurston and Mason Counties, Oliver V. Linn, came to
Washington from his boyhood home in Pennsylvania in the year 1889. After
spending a short time on Grays Harbor, he removed to Olympia, where he made his
home continuously until the time of his death in 1908.
      O. V. Linn received his education at Wilmington, and was admitted to the
bar shortly before coming to the West. Upon his settling in Olympia he formed a
law partnership with Joe M. Robinson, continuing the successful practice of his
profession until the year 1900. when he was elected Judge of the Superior Court
on the Republican ticket. In 1906 he was re-elected, and in 1908 was an active
candidate for nomination to the Supreme bench under the direct primary law. His
death, however, occurred in the fall of the same year, valvular heart trouble
being the cause of his death. His wife, Margaret, and one son, Donald, comprised
his immediate family.  Judge Linn was an honorable, genial man, loved by his
many friends, and respected and honored by his legal associates.
     His widow, Margaret, died in December, 1913, at the Linn home, in Olympia.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios. Project in May 2007 by Diana Smith.
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above.