Thomas Benton Killin, for eight years Clackamas County Commissioner, died Wednesday at his home in Woodburn, Or., aged 70.

Mr. Killin came to Oregon when a young many and lived most of his life on the old Killin place at Elliott Prairie, Clackamas
County. He was elected County Commissioner in 1900 and was re-elected in 1904, serving until 1908. He was a Republican. In
1862 he enlisted in the Oregon cavalry and served the Union until the close of the Civil War.

He sold his farm on Elliott Prairie in 1906 and moved to Canby, living there a few years and then moved to Silverton. Later
he moved to Woodburn.

He is survived by a widow and two children, Benton Killin, Jr., of Portland, and Mrs. May Durant, of Woodburn. He was a
brother of the Benton Killin, a Portland attorney, who died a few years ago. George W. Killin, of Woodburn; Jack Killin, of
Yamhill County, and Elisha Killin are surviving brothers.

The funeral will take place tomorrow at Hubbard, where the body will be buried. Mr. Killin was a member of the Needy Lodge of
the Independent Order of Oddfellows.