An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 459-460

	THOMAS W. PADDEN, proprietor of the Eureka Billiard Parlors of Vancouver,
was born in county Mayo, Ireland, March 16, 1847, a son of Michael and Mary
(Carbon) Padden, both of Irish birth and now deceased. Thomas W., the youngest
of ten children, was brought by his parents to America in the year of his birth,
the family locating in Pennsylvania. At the age of fifteen years he removed with
his parents to the Pacific coast, spending a few months at Portland, Oregon, and
then coming to Clarke county, Washington. Mr. Padden was reared to farm life,
but has also had much experience in mining, having followed that branch of
industry at Canon creek about four years, and one year in the Montana mines,
although he was not among the successful ones from a financial standpoint. He
has been connected with the wine and liquor trade for more than twenty years,
but during a portion of this time has been contracting and furnishing wood and
hay to the Government. Mr. Padden has filled many large contracts at Forts
Canby, Walla Walla and Vancouver. During his residence in this city he has been
prominently identified with several of the more important public enterprises of
Vancouver and Clarke county, and among them may be mentioned the Klickitat &
Yakima Railroad, of which he was one of the promoters and early stockholders.
	Our subject was married in this city, October 6, 1873, to Miss Sarah C.
Byrne, a native of San Francisco, California, and a daughter of Hugh Byrne, an
old Mexican war veteran. The latter removed to California in 1849, was married
in San Francisco, November 13, 1853, and in the following year located in Clarke
county, Washington, where he is still an honored and respected pioneer. Mr. and
Mrs. Padden have had these children: Mary C., John A., Louisa M., Margaret A.,
Gertrude, A. Constance, Thomas L., and three daughters deceased. Mr. Padden
takes an active interest in the work of the Democratic party.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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