History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . I he coast of Maine in 1035. He, with eightothers, founded the city of Portsmouth, jS\H., and was a selectman of the town. Oneof his descendants (a lineal ancestor ofMr. Cairns) served under Washington fouryears in the Revolutionary War. MaryA. Haynes—aftei-wards Mrs. Robert Cairns—the mother of Charles, was a remarkablewoman, distinguished for mental endow-ments and literary attainments. She wasthe author of a volume of poem
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . I he coast of Maine in 1035. He, with eightothers, founded the city of Portsmouth, jS\H., and was a selectman of the town. Oneof his descendants (a lineal ancestor ofMr. Cairns) served under Washington fouryears in the Revolutionary War. MaryA. Haynes—aftei-wards Mrs. Robert Cairns—the mother of Charles, was a remarkablewoman, distinguished for mental endow-ments and literary attainments. She wasthe author of a volume of poems of somenote. Although for many years a great suf-ferer from rheumatism, she never lost in-terest in public affairs. Her memory wasvery tenacious, and she read with avidityeverything accessible pertaining to the im-portant questions of the day, and formedconclusions worthy of a seer. Judge JohnHaynes of the supreme court of Californiawas her brother. From these facts it is easy to discover howCharles S. Cairns came by his superior nat-ural talents and intellectual trend. He w;isborn on the home farm near Duncans Falls,Muskingum county, Ohio, July i, 1856. The. CHAULES S. CAIKNS. district school which he first attended was amile away. One of the established practicesof the school was speaking pieces everyFriday afternoon. His interest in the^ ex-ercises first prompted in young Cairns theambition to become a lawyer. He enteredMuskingum College at New Concord, Ohio, in1872, and received his A. B. degree in 1876,taking also in due course the master of artsdegree. Having read law one year in theoffice of Roby, Outten & Vail at Decatur,111., he entered the law department of Michi-gan university, graduating as LL. B. in began to practice at Decatur, as alreadystated. When he came to Minneapolis, in1883, the year of the fateful visit, he formeda partnership with David S. Frackelton butsoon, however, struck for himself and hasconducted his practice most of the timealone. It
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