Martin L. Pipes

Martin Luther Pipes (September 21, 1850 – July 15, 1932) was an American attorney and judge in Oregon. He was the 54th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. A Louisiana native, he also was a judge on the Oregon Circuit Court and a member of the Oregon House of Representatives.

Early life Martin Pipes was born to John Pipes and Harriet Shaffer Pipes in Ascension Parish, Louisiana on September 21, 1850. In Louisiana Martin received his education and graduated in 1871 from Louisiana State Seminary. From 1878 to 1881 he was a justice of the peace and city recorder. In 1881 he passed the bar and began practicing law there and in neighboring Dallas, Oregon until 1884. Pipes only served until the end of the term on December 31, 1924. Later he was an attorney involved in the case of Ross v. State of Oregon, representing the defendant in error, Oregon. In 1923 and 1925 he argued unsuccessfully with co-counsel William R. King to force the United States to pay back wages to postmaster Frank Myers in the landmark Myers v. United States decision of the court.

Other In 1926, Martin Pipes had his son Wade Hampton Pipes, an architect, design and build a Tudor style home for the family in Southwest Portland. Pipes lived in the home until his death in 1932, and his widow remained there until 1944. Wade Pipes was considered the "foremost exponent of English Cottage architecture" in the state. His daughter, Nellie Bowden Pipes, was librarian of the Oregon Historical Society and editor of its Oregon Historical Quarterly; she married Lewis Ankeny McArthur.