January 7: 12pm-1pm, Medford Library, Large Meeting Room
January 14: 12pm-1pm, Ashland Library, Gresham Room
In 1905, Attorney Abraham Walter Lafferty was appointed special agent for the Department of Interior’s General Land Office in Portland, and opened a law practice a year later. In 1907, Lafferty took on representation of eighteen Oregon counties over the Oregon & California Railroad land fraud scandal, a cause with which he continued to be involved for the rest of…
