Medway Ohio

Honorable Theodore L. Stiles, born July 12, 1848, in Medway, Ohio, was the only child of Daniel J. and Marie S. Stiles. After his mother’s death, the family moved to Indianapolis, where Stiles pursued higher education at Ohio University and later Amherst College, graduating in 1871. He studied law at Columbia Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1872. Moving west in search of better opportunities, he settled in Tacoma, Washington, where he became a delegate to the constitutional convention and was elected as a supreme court judge.