Albert Gallatin Lloyd, (A.G. Lloyd), was born in Missouri in 1836, and came west on the Oregon Trail in 1845 with his father and family. He was an Indian War veteran and moved to Waitsburg, Washington in 1859 after marrying Lois Lloyd in 1858. (information from Lloyd Family Bible)
A. G. Lloyd is my great great grandfather.
My research indicates that he began serving in the Washington Territory Legislature in 1867. Washington became a state in 1889. He had a long distinguished career in Legislature. A.G. Lloyd died 5 January 1915. (Washington Death Certificate).
He was honored in a Memorial Address at the Washington Legislature in 1915. All the Memorial Addresses are in a bound book in my possession.
Memorial Address Honoring A. G. Lloyd
MR. MASTERSON SPOKE AS FOLLOWS:
Mr. President and Associate Members of the Fourteenth General Assembly:
“Tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream, And the soul is dead that slumbers, life is not what it seems.
Life is real, life is earnest, and the grave is not its goal.
Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul”
A. H. Lloyd was born in Buchanan County, Missouri, in 1836. At the age of nine he moved with his parents to Benton County, Oregon. There, amid the forests primeval and close to the heart of nature, his youth and early manhood was spent. There, through patient endeavor and self denial, he developed those sterling traits of character and that splendid physique which so admirably fitted him for the stern duties of a pioneer.
In 1859 he was married to Louise Jasper, and shortly thereafter moved to Touchet Valley in Southeastern Washington.
Mr. Lloyd was elected to the Legislature in 1893, and for four terms served the state in the lower house. Though never indulging in disputation, his keen insight into the subtleties of legislation and his unfailing good humor made him a power in caucus and committee.
Mr. Lloyd took an active part in the early Indian Wars, and became Grand Commander of the Indian War Veterans of the Pacific Coast. In 1894 he was appointed by President Cleveland Register of the United States Land Office at Walla Walla, and so well did he conduct the affairs of this then important post that he reflected credit, not only upon himself, but upon the administration which he represented.
Useful and varied as has been the public service of Mr. Lloyd, he is best known as friend and neighbor. He was a man of cheerful disposition and he retained his clearness and vigor of intellect up to his closing day. Though he died full of years and ready to be gathered to his fathers, the grief that is now felt is widespread and sincere.
His best monument will be the good report he has left behind him. He exemplified, by his pure and honorable life, the teachings of the Golden Rule, and unfailingly evinced a practical piety that will long be remembered as the best of professions.
In temperament he was mild, conciliatory and candid, and yet remarkable for an uncompromising fairness which could not yield to wrong. Men, women and children sought his counsel and sympathy, and never was a confidence betrayed, and today many there are who may justly attribute their success in life to the wise counsel or kindly admonition of this venerable neighbor and friend.
And, Mr. President, this afternoon memories of George Lloyd twine as tender tendrils around the hearts of us who knew and loved him, and wafts the sacred name of friend and neighbor down over the billowy seas of endless time to transcendent glories among the immortals.[1]
[1]Memorial Addresses In Joint Session of Senate and House, Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Washington, 1915. Olympia, Frank M. Lamborn,, Public Printer, 1915.
Compiled by A. J. Hoskin, Senate Reading Clerk. Page 111-112.
