Biographies for Multnomah County Oregon

FOSTER, Mrs. Susie E., author and philanthropist, born in Torbrook, Nova Scotia, Canada, 18th May. 1846. Her maiden name was Holland, and she was born and grew up on a farm. When she was twelve years old, she was sent away from home for better educational advantages. Two years later her mother's failing health made her presence at home necessary, and the routine of the school-room was never resumed. Her studies were continued at home, and her tastes were formed and her mind developed by a close perusal of the best authors. Both parents were of more than ordinary intellectual ability. Her grandfather Henderson was well known in educational circles. In his academy were trained men who became prominent in the religious and political history of Nova Scotia. Her father's father had been a member of the Provincial Parliament. The Hollands possessed literary and poetic ability, which was handed down to her. She became the wife of Mr. Foster when she was nineteen years of age. Brought up in the same faith, they pledged their allegiance in early years to God and Methodism. Three years after their marriage they joined the tide of migration westward, first to Illinois, and then to northwest Iowa. In the prairie homestead and later among a cultivated circle in town she contributed articles to the press. There the Woman's Christian Temperance Union won her to its great work. She served as corresponding secretary of the eleventh Congressional district during the stormy year that gave a prohibitory amendment to Iowa. She spent four years in Walla Walla, Wash., and her work continued along the lines of reform in local, county and State organizations. Going to Oregon for better educational advantages for their children, she was soon elected State corresponding secretary. Her pen is busy in the interests of the work, and while she sometimes is called upon to address an audience, she is not a ready speaker, and her thoughts find best expression through the medium of pen and paper. She has found, like other busy women, that her temperance work does not set her free from the claims of church and missionary effort, to which she gives much attention. Their home is in a suburb of Portland, near the university, where their daughter and son are students. (American Women, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Volume 1 Copyright 1897.  Transcribed by Marla Snow.)

COOK, Miss May A., pianist, born in Paw Paw, Mich., 4th December, 1869. Her father, Prof. E. Cook, was born in Genesee county. N. Y. During the Civil War he served in the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery as a member of the band, and saw the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox Court House. When the regiment was discharged, he returned to his native State and resumed his studies in the normal school in Brockport, N. Y. Afterward his attention was devoted wholly to music. While teaching in Michigan, he became acquainted with Miss C. A. Tyler, and they were married in 1868. Miss Cook showed an early predilection for music, and has always been an industrious student. At the age of sixteen years she was known as the finest pianist of the Pacific Northwest. She was the first pianist to present to the musical public of that section the works of the great masters, and concertos by Weber, Beethoven and Schumann, with full orchestra, were successively given, and in such an artistic manner as to make them popular. A remarkably clear technic and great expression characterize her playing. In the summer of 1891 Miss Cook, accompanied by her mother, went to Germany, where she purposes to spend some years in musical study. Her home is in Portland, Ore. (American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol. 1, by Frances Elizabeth Willard & Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)

MULKEY
HON. FRED W. MULKEY. Hon. Fred W. Mulkey has twice been chosen to represent Oregon in the United States senate and has filled various other positions of public trust which have indicated the confidence reposed in him by his fellowmen and the fact that he has never in the least betrayed their trust. At the same time he has gained for himself a place in the front ranks of the legal profession in Portland and is. moreover, a representative of one of the pioneer families of the state, the name of Mulkey being associated with the history of Oregon from an early period in its settlement. Fred W. Mulkey was born in Portland, January 6. 1874, and is a son of Marion Francis Mulkey, whose birth occurred in Johnson county, Missouri, November 14, 1836. The grandfather in the paternal line was Johnson Mulkey, who in 1846 started with his family for Oregon, traveling across the plains with oxen after the slow and tedious manner of the times, eventually reaching Benton county, where Johnson Mulkey obtained a donation land claim. His son. Marion F., then a youth of ten years, was reared on the farm amid the conditions of pioneer life and in the acquirement of his education attended the little log schoolhouse in the home neighborhood until he had opportunity to become a pupil in the college at Forest Grove, of which Dr. S. H. Marsh, one of the noted educators of the day, was then principal. When the Indians went on the warpath in 1856 he was still pursuing his studies, but immediately he joined the military forces that were organized to protect the frontier settlers. He resumed his studies when peace was restored and in 1858 went east to become a student in Yale. He devoted four years to his university course and was graduated in 1862. after which he returned to Portland, where he took up the study of law under the preceptorship of Judge E. D. Shattuck. and while preparing for the bar he filled the office of provost marshal in 1863. In 1864 Marion P. Mulkey was admitted to practice at the Oregon bar and soon became junior partner in the firm of Hill & Mulkey as the associate of W. Lair Hill. No dreary novitiate awaited him in his profession. He soon gained recognition of his powers and his ability increased as the result of his close and discriminating study and broadening experience. In 1866 he was chosen for the office of prosecuting attorney in the fourth judicial district and he was for many years an active and prominent figure in connection with the public interests of Oregon. In 1867 he was elected a member of the city council from the third ward and in 1872 and again in 1873 was elected city attorney. Following the close of his second term he entered into partnership with Hon. J. F. Caples, who afterward filled the office of district attorney for three successive terms. Mr. Mulkey acting as his deputy during that period. At the bar, too, Mr. Mulkey made steady advancement and it was not long before it became a recognized fact that he was capable of crossing swords in forensic combat with the ablest, for his forceful arguments and logical deductions, combined with his correct application of the principles of law, seldom failed to win for him the verdict desired. Realizing that Portland was destined to become a great city he wisely made investment in unimproved property from time to time and erected thereon substantial buildings, while the sale of his real estate at different periods brought to him the substantial rewards of his labor and keen insight. He was the builder of the Mulkey block at the corner of Second and Morrison streets, then one of the leading architectural structures of Portland. Politically Mr. Mulkey was a republican and fraternally was connected with the Masons. In 1S62 was celebrated the marriage of M. F. Mulkey and Miss Mary E. Porter of New Haven, Connecticut, who belonged to one of the prominent families of that city. To Mr. and Mrs. Mulkey were born two sons, Frank M. and Fred W. The family circle was broken by the hand of death when the husband and father passed away February 25, 1889. A contemporary writer has said of him: "His life was one of unswerving integrity and exalted honor, and the public press vied with the bar in expressing in feeling terms the deep sense of irretrievable loss suffered by the community in the passing of this high-minded and highly respected citizen." With the example of his honored father to serve as a stimulus in his career, Fred W. Mulkey has added new honors to the family name. Liberal educational advantages were accorded him and he completed a course in the University of Oregon as one of its alumni of 1896. He then prepared for the bar in the New York Law School of New York city, where he won his LL. B. degree in 1S99. From the beginning of his professional career he has made steady advancement and his course has been one which reflects credit upon the profession, while at the same time he has achieved thereby a position that is most enviable. Moreover, Mr. Mulkey has almost continuously served in public office. He was a young man of hut twenty-six years when he was elected a member of the Portland city council for a two-year period and was honored with the presidency thereof during the last year of his term. He has always made a close study of the question of taxation and has been most fearless in support of his views, which he has ever expressed with remarkable clearness and in most convincing manner. He was the chairman of the Oregon tax commission, the report of which received favorable comment from the best tax experts in the United States. In June, 1906, he was elected to the United States senate to fill out the unexpired term of J. H. Mitchell, deceased, receiving a plurality of fifty thousand and becoming the unanimous choice of the state legislature. From 1910 until 1915 he was chairman of the public dock commission of Portland and is still serving as a member of the commission. In 1917 he was made chairman of the committee appointed to investigate the state penitentiary and from the 5th of November, 1918. until the 17th of December of the same year he was a member of the United States senate but resigned on the latter date. In February, 1919, he became chairman of the soldiers' and sailors' committee of Oregon and is still acting in that capacity. All public duties he has assumed with a sense of conscientious obligation that has been manifest in his valuable service, his course being one of great usefulness along many lines. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of Oregon: Volume III The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company Chicago - Portland; 1922)

CROUCH
LESLIE EUGENE CROUCH. Leslie Eugene Crouch, a well known corporation lawyer of Portland, was born in Stockbridge, Wisconsin, July 28, 1878, his parents being John 0. and Elizabeth J. fYoumans) Crouch. The father, also a native of Wisconsin, was a farmer by occupation but passed away in 1879, at the early age of twenty-six years. The mother is still living and now makes her home in Seattle. Leslie E. Crouch was very young at the time of his father's death. His early education was acquired in district schools near his Wisconsin home and in the high school of Stockbridge, which he attended from 1893 until 1897. Subsequent" to this time it was necessary at various periods that he provide for his own support and he was employed from January, 1899, until July, 1902, by the Great Northern Railroad Company and the Chicago & Great Western Railroad Company. It was while thus engaged that he took up the study of law, for a commendable ambition prompted him to prepare for a calling that would give him wider opportunity and greater chance for advancement. In 1902 he became a resident of Oregon and matriculated in the law department of the University of Oregon, from which he was graduated in 1904 with the LL. B. degree. In June of that year he was admitted at Salem to practice in the Oregon courts and in the latter part of the same month was licensed to practice in the United States district and circuit courts. He then became the professional associate of Rodney L. Glisan and specialized upon corporation law, abstracts and titles. Throughout the intervening years he has confined his attention to these branches of law practice and his constantly broadening experience, his thorough study and continued research have made him one of the ablest representatives of corporation law in western Oregon. He has made substantial advancement in his chosen calling and the older and more experienced members of the Portland bar soon acknowledged his worth, and he today enjoys the confidence and goodwill of his colleagues and contemporaries before the bar. Mr. Crouch was made attorney for the civic improvement board, having in charge the cleaning up of the city for the exposition of 1905. He became interested in the Almeda Consolidated Mines Company, owning one of Oregon's largest gold and copper mines, and he was the secretary of the Crater Lake Company, which developed the Crater Lake region that has since become a national park. On the 11th of December, 1904, Mr. Crouch was married to Miss Clara B. Frantz of Seattle. On the 10th of September, 1913, in Tacoma. Washington, he wedded Ella Mae Lynch. His military history covers service as a member of Company F, Third Infantry of the Oregon National Guard, which he joined April 22, 1903. and on the 9th of September, 190S, he was commissioned captain. He attends the Episcopal church and is interested in all those forces which make for a better citizenship and higher standards for mankind. He is identified with the Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He has become a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and is a past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Oregon, while in 1920 he was supreme representative to the national organization. His political views have always been in accord with the republican party, but through the war period he stood with all patriotic citizens in support of the various projects which upheld American interests and ideals, serving on the legal advisory board, taking part in all the bond drives and doing much other patriotic service. Deprived in early boyhood of the care and guidance of a father, he early developed self-reliance and independence of spirit, and individual effort has brought him to the present high professional and social position which he today occupies. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of Oregon: Volume III The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company Chicago - Portland; 1922)

COAN
RALPH A. COAN, Ralph A, Coan, for twelve years an active representative of the Portland bar, was born in Boulder, Colorado, May 22, 1881. His father, Alonzo Coan, is a native of Exeter, Maine, born on the 5th of June, 1842, he is descended on a direct line from the Pilgrims, and is a member of the Mayflower Society. Following the outbreak of the Civil war he served in the Fifteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry throughout the period of hostilities with the rank of captain. In 1S66 he removed to Missouri and was married in that state to Miss Etta Lancaster. Some time afterward he became a resident of Colorado, where he has since been known as a mine operator, making his home at the present time in Boulder, His wife, however, passed away in 1902. Ralph A. Coan is indebted to the public school system of Boulder for the educational opportunities which he enjoyed in his youth. He next entered the University of Colorado there and was graduated with the class of 1904, with the degree of B. A. He then went east to New York city, where he entered Columbia University for the study of law and received his LL. D. degree in 1906. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of his profession in his native city but later in the same year removed to the northwest, settling first in Vancouver, Washington, where he devoted his attention to law practice until 1908. In that year he came to Portland and has since been a representative of the bar of this city. Along with the requisites of the successful lawyer he brought to the starting point of his career certain rare gifts — a dignified presence, a good command of language and a laudable ambition. These qualities have been contributing elements to his continuous advancement in a profession where progress depends entirely upon individual merit. He is likewise a director of the Lawyers Title & Trust Company and is the secretary and treasurer of the Portland Mausoleum Company. On the 27th of October, 1908, in Nevada, Missouri, Mr. Coan was married to Miss Pansey Burton, a daughter of Hon. Charles G. Burton, past commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Their children are; Burton L„ born September 3, 1910: and Ralph Gorman, born May .30, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Coan attend the Christian Science church and his political endorsement' is given to the republican party. Fraternally he is a Knight Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and is now serving as worshipful master of Imperial Lodge, No. 159, A. F. & A. M. and a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. He likewise belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and his fraternal relations extend to the Delta Tau Delta and the Phi Beta Kappa. During the World war he did efficient service for his government as secretary of the Multnomah legal advisory board, as government appeal agent for Board No. 1 and also as one of the Four-Minute men. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of Oregon: Volume III The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company Chicago - Portland; 1922)

MINER
AMOS LUTHER MINER. Amos Luther Miner, becoming a resident of Oregon in 1885, was thereafter identified with mining interests and real estate activities in Oregon and Alaska. He was born in Clinton county, New York, in 1837, his parents being Clements D. and Lydia (Dominy) Miner. The early years of his life were spent in the east. In fact he did not come to Oregon until 1885, at which time he took up his abode in St. Johns. There he purchased ninety-seven acres of land and with the development of the city he laid out Miner's addition to St. Johns. He turned his attention to farming, bringing his land under a high state of cultivation and he was also connected with mining interests and with real estate operations. In fact he readily recognized business opportunities which he utilized to excellent advantage, his sound judgment enabling him readily to discriminate between the essential and the non-essential in business affairs. His wise investments and his capable management of his business interests brought to him a very substantial measure of success. He also became the owner of mines in Alaska and made two trips to that country. He was a millwright and followed the trade of machinist and millwright at Minneapolis before coming west, but never worked along that line after his removal to the west, giving his attention to his farming and his invested interests. On the 3d of January, 1859, Mr. Miner was united in marriage to Miss Sarah E. Beebe and to them were born six children: Ardella Lilian; Mary Elizabeth; one who died in infancy; Lydia Delia; Charles Luther; and Grace Edna. The daughter, Mary E., is the widow of Samuel Spence Beebe and Lydia D. is the wife of Ralph Crysler. Mr. Miner was a republican in his political views and while residing in St. Johns filled the office of city clerk. He was always interested in public affairs and his aid and influence were ever on the side of progress and improvement. His life's labors were ended in death on the 20th of December, 1919. He had been a resident of Oregon for more than a third of a century and was keenly Interested in everything that pertained to the welfare and progress of the state, while at all times he gave helpful support to measures for the public good. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of Oregon: Volume III The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company Chicago - Portland; 1922)

INMAN
HON. ROBERT D. INMAN. Perseverance in the face of great obstacles coupled with earnestness of purpose marked to an unusual degree the life of Hon. Robert D. Inman. who blazed a distinct trail in the lumber industry of the northwest. Mr. Inman had his origin in true pioneer stock, his forbears coming to America long before the Revolutionary war. True to the traditions of his ancestors he fought a great fight for success in life and when he had attained a position well toward the top of the list of lumber manufacturers on the American continent, he was able to wear his laurels with true grace and unquestioned credit to himself. The life history of Mr. Inman, if written by a master hand, would read like a fairy tale except for the hardships endured. He struggled for a place in the productive activities of his country and his rise from a towboy at the age of nine years on a canal in Ohio to the head of a lumber concern with world-wide distribution demonstrates the power of constructive thought and the value of courageous and unselfish friendship, for among all the treasures left by Robert D. Inman no part of them will compare in true value with the multitude of friends who loved him for his manly worth, who shared in his success and who mourned his passing as a personal affliction. Robert David Inman was born near Piqua, Ohio. August 11, 1853. His parents were Asa and Lucinda (Kendall) Inman. His ancestors came to this country during the latter part of the seventeenth century, settling in Vermont. For generations the forbears of young Inman had been farmers and as tillers of the soil the first American representatives started life anew among the forbidding hills of New England. Asa Inman, grandfather of Robert, took up the business of contracting and building as the state of Vermont developed and it is safe to assume that some of the wonderful genius for construction which developed in Robert as he grew to manhood was transmitted from the grandfather, whose struggles for success in the new world marked him as little less than a genius. Several members of the Inman family served and sacrificed in the Revolutionary war and Robert's father yielded his life for his country in the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, under the leadership of the immortal Lincoln and General Grant. Leaving Vermont in response to the demand for elbow room the Inman family located in Ohio, where Robert was born. When the boy was two years of age his parents removed to Iowa, settling near Marshalltown. During the following trying years the Civil war was fought and among the first men to enlist at Marshalltown was Asa Inman. Throughout the early part of the war the struggle of the family was extremely bitter and following the death of the father the mother carried her little brood back to the old home in Ohio. So desperate were the circumstances of the family that Robert then nine years of age, sought and secured employment as a towboy on the old Ohio canal and for several years thus aided his mother in her struggle for the necessaries of life. The courage of Robert Inman as a boy, which in after years became the chief factor in his success, is shown in the fact that when he was twelve years of age, in the company of strangers he left the scenes of his childhood to seek his fortune in the romantic country toward the setting sun. Leaving his mother with the assurance that he would go west and carve success from the unknown stretches of desert and wilderness. Robert set out for the Pacific coast with an emigrant train led by William Davidson. The courageous party started May 21, 1865, and five months and eleven days later arrived at Portland, Oregon, then a struggling settlement of three thousand persons. Here it was, and with winter coming on, that young Robert began his forty-five years of struggle and development and success in Oregon. An era of railroad construction in the Willamette valley was beginning in 1865 and Robert found his first job in a tie-cutting camp. Many of the ties which were used on the first grade of the West Side line of the Oregon & California Railroad were shaped by the deft young hands of the lad from Ohio. For ten years Robert labored and studied mechanics as best he could, his purpose being to fit himself for service in the great lumbering industry which his foresight visualized for Oregon and the northwest. His opportunity came in 1875. when he entered the employment of the Willamette steam sawmill of Portland. He soon proved his worth in the plant and became head of the manufacturing department. Here for eight years he struggled to build up the business and to fit himself for a more important position in the new industry which was beginning to take on form in the minds of men with vision. When the North Pacific Lumber Company — the pioneer Portland concern of consequence — was organized it was natural that the leading spirit in the enterprise should be R. D. Inman. With L. Therkelsen. N. Versteeg and L. W. P. Quimby, Mr. Inman joined in the formation of the company and in the development of the first export lumber business in Portland. He planned the mill and was superintendent of construction. For seven years he had direction of the manufacture of lumber, during which time the concern developed a large business, both local and export. Mr. Inman entered his real life work in 1890, when with John Poulsen he organized the Inman-Poulsen Lumber Company and erected a mill on the Willamette river. The mill was the wonder of the time among manufacturers because of the speed given the machinery, thus greatly increasing the output of the plant and reducing the cost of manufacture. During November, 1896, fire destroyed the Inman-Poulsen mill. With superhuman effort the owners of the property began rebuilding the mill before all the lumber piles had been reduced to embers and within sixty days the present great mill — one of the most wonderful plants in the world — with a yearly capacity of nearly two hundred million feet, was ready for operation. With the great modern mill in charge of Mr. Inman the company struck out for world-wide business and today the products of the plant find market wherever men use wood for their construction needs. At the time of Mr. Inman's death one of the local papers said editorially: "Not many boys started life poorer than 'Bob' Inman nor with gloomier prospects. When at the age of twelve he reached Oregon with an immigrant train, there were hundreds of lads who had a better start and after he reached manhood and went to work in a sawmill there were thousands of workmen to whom opportunity beckoned, but nearly all of them turned away. 'Bob' Inman's rise from millhand to captain of industry is an object lesson which many young men may study with profit. Inman wasn't a grasping man. Never did he seek to grind down labor. He treated his employes like men — as he would wish to be treated if he were working for an employer. He was a builder of industry and a valuable community asset. More than that, he took part in public life fearlessly and honestly and he won complete public confidence. Always he was foursquare with the world." While Mr. Inman's whole life was voluntarily made an inseparable part of the lumbering industry of the northwest, he always was interested in civic matters and kept himself in close touch with all the world about him. He believed that no man could live to himself and always sought the counsel and companionship of his fellows. For many years he was an active member of the democratic party and was a life-long member of the Masonic fraternity. Among the Shriners of the country and in the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks he was well known and popular. He was a life member of the Multnomah Athletic Club, a member of the Portland Rowing Club and of the Oregon Automobile Club. His service in the Concatenated Hoo Hoos was rewarded by election as supreme snark. In public life he served in the house of representatives in 1892, being the only democrat so honored in Multnomah county in twenty years. He was elected to the state senate in 1900. During the period of port development a few years ago he was appointed chairman of the Port of Portland Commission and his vision and wisdom found first place in the plans for permanent port construction. On the 2d of May, 1875, Mr. Inman married Miss Frances L. Guild and to the union were born two daughters: Minnie Myrtle and Ivy Frances, both of whom reside in Boston. Mr. Inman maintained a palatial home in Irvington, where for years he met and entertained his friends. On the 6th of October, 1912, Mr. Inman married Mrs. Clara A. Rickards. Death called Mr. Inman, April 27, 1920, following an operation for mastoiditis, resulting from an attack of influenza. In the prime of his mental and physical vigor, with his leadership in the lumber industry beyond question, and surrounded by life-long friends who had given him the test of character, "Bob" Inman answered the final summons as he had met every trial of life, with his face to the foe, with his years filled with achievement, with nothing more to be desired. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of Oregon: Volume III The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company Chicago - Portland; 1922)

LEACH
FRANCIS P. LEACH. The life record of Francis P. Leach spanned the years between the 5th of December, 1847, when he was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and December 18, 1915, when he passed away in Portland. His youth was spent in New England and after leaving his native state he made his way to Galesburg, Illinois, where he resided for some time and then came to the northwest arriving in Portland, Oregon, in 1877. He started out in the business world here as an employe of the Smith & Watson Iron Works and later established the Excelsior Iron Works in South Portland. In time the business was reorganized under the name of Leach Brothers Iron Works, and the plant established at Portland, Oregon, where they engaged in the manufacture of sash weights and stoves. The business steadily developed, bringing a substantial profit to the owner, and Mr. Leach retired about three years before his death, having acquired a comfortable competence, spending his remaining days in the enjoyment of the comfort and luxury which his former toil provided for him. In 1873 Mr. Leach was married to Miss Joanna Douglas, a daughter of James and Mary Douglas, who were natives of Ireland and came to America in an early day. Mrs. Leach was the eldest daughter and by her marriage became the mother of ten children of whom nine are living, Frank having passed away. The others are: Joseph M., owner of J. M. Leach Iron Works; James Herbert, who was a soldier in the Spanish American war; Edward C. ; Josephine L., the wife of C. L. McKenna: Winfield G. and George M.. now owners of the Leach Brothers Iron Works located at Seattle. Washington; Lottie, the wife of James L. Kibbee: Florence B. and Harriet M., both at home. Mr. Leach was identified with several fraternal organizations. He belonged to the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Neighbors of Woodcraft, the United Artisans, the Degree of Honor, the Yeomen and the Homesteaders, He was a consistent member of the Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal church, and his political allegiance was given to the republican party. For several years he served as justice of the peace and his decisions were at all times strictly fair and impartial. His cooperation could always be counted upon in matters of progressive citizenship. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of Oregon: Volume III The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company Chicago - Portland; 1922)

BATES
PAUL CHAPMAN BATES. Various corporate interests have felt the stimulus of the enterprise, carefully formulated plans and initiative of Paul Chapman Bates, who has indeed been a dynamic force in the business circles of Portland and the state. While primarily he is president of the firm of McCargar, Bates & Lively, general insurance agents of Portland, he is also identified with many business enterprises which constitute most important features in the industrial, commercial and financial development of the city. With him, to plan is to achieve. Every opportunity is to him a call to action and he never turns back from a purpose undertaken until it is carried forward to successful completion. Mr. Bates was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, April 16, 1874, his parents being Daniel W. and Martha (Tyler) Bates. His father was a sergeant in the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry throughout the Civil war and was three times wounded, once at Cold Harbor. He died at Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1917. after having devoted many years to the brokerage business there. His wife passed away in the same city in April, 1920. After obtaining a public school education in Massachusetts, completed by a high school course at Westfield, Paul C. Bates started out upon his business career. In fact when a boy of but thirteen he had obtained employment in a whip factory, working at odd jobs and gradually advancing from a very humble position to that of assistant manager through the period from 1887 until 1892. He then became private secretary to the cashier and assistant treasurer of the Connecticut River Railway Company at Springfield, Massachusetts, where he remained for a year, during which period the line was purchased by the Boston & Maine Railroad Company, and in that connection Mr. Bates received his first lesson in high finance. He was afterward bookkeeper with the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company during the latter part of 1893 and also in the same year taught a country school near Florida. Massachusetts. At the close of the year he made his way westward to Oregon and until 1895 occupied the position of stenographer and bookkeeper with the Lambert, Sargent Insurance Agency of Portland. Laudable ambition has actuated him at every point in his career and after a period of two years in employment he purchased the agency and organized the firm of Paul C. Bates but sold the business in September, 1896. He was then made traveling field adjuster and agency organizer with the Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia, his territory covering Oregon. Washington and Idaho. Two years were spent in that connection and he was subsequently field agent in the same territory for the Union Fire Insurance' Company and for the Law Union & Crown of London. England, from 1898 until 1903. In the latter year he became a partner in the firm of McCargar & Bates of Portland, which maintained an existence under that style until 1909, when they were joined by a third partner, organizing the present firm of McCargar. Bates & Lively. While developing one of the largest insurance agencies of the state and in connection handling a business of mammoth proportions, Mr. Bates has also become a prominent figure in the upbuilding of the state, chiefly in the matter of organizing and directing large corporate interests. Through his efforts many millions of capital have been invested in Oregon property. He successfully engineered the largest timber deal ever made in the state, which involved approximately two billion and a half feet of timber in Clatsop, Tillamook and Columbia counties, for a consideration of four million dollars, of which one million dollars was paid in cash by David C. Eccles of the Oregon-American Lumber Company. Subsequently the purchasers invested three million dollars in construction of a railroad from the Columbia river to open up the timber as an operating property. The land area involved was twenty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty-five acres — a district twelve times as great in extent as the state of Delaware. Shortly after completing this transaction he closed the sale of another timber tract for one and a quarter million dollars. His personal investments are extensive, making him a stockholder in the St. Helens Creosoting Company of St. Helens, Oregon, the W. H. Eccles Lumber Company, the Oregon Portland Cement Company, the J. R. Hanify Company of San Francisco, owners of the vessels Ryder Hanify and Ann Hanify, the Hart-Wood Lumber Company of San Francisco, operating the vessel Quinault, C. R. McCormick & Company of San Francisco, owners of the vessels City of Everett and City of St. Helens, the Broughton & Wiggins Navigation Company of Portland, owners of the ship Ernest Myer, the Coast Shipbuilding Company of Portland, owning the vessel Egeria, the Western Marine & Mercantile Corporation of San Francisco, owning the vessel Charles Christenson, the Columbia River Packers Association of Astoria. Oregon, and the Hanover Apartment Company of Portland. He is also the owner of a farm near Portland, devoted extensively to the production of berries, and in horticultural interests finds recreation and diversion from the activities which center in the corporate interests managed and in the direction of the mammoth insurance business built up by his firm. He was also an organizer and director of the Hazelwood Cream Company of Portland and assisted in the organization of the Hawley Pulp & Paper Company of Oregon City, of which he was a director. On the 8th of November. 1903. Mr. Bates was united in marriage to Miss Agnete Poulsen, a daughter of Johan Poulsen, a native of Denmark. The marriage was celebrated in Portland and they have become parents of two sons: Johan Poulsen, born in 1906; and Hamilton, July 28. 1907. The religious faith of Mr. and Mrs. Bates is that of the Congregational church and his political endorsement is given to the republican party. He is a life member of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club and belongs to the Irvington, the Arlington and Waverly Clubs. Fishing, hunting and farming constitute the sources of his relaxation, but the hours given thereto are comparatively few. There is a constant call of some business interest which makes demand upon his time and attention. In the parlance of the day, he is a live wire. In other words, he is forceful, resourceful and resolute. He plans well and gets results and that his plans are comprehensive and practical is shown in the fact that his achievements place him in the point of leadership in connection with many and varied interests. Any city would be glad to welcome him to the ranks of its business men. His energy, can be spoken of only in the superlative degree, and yet there is not a single esoteric phase in his life, his entire course being marked simply by a recognition and utilization of opportunities which many others have lessly by. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of Oregon: Volume III The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company Chicago - Portland; 1922)

FRED LEUPOLD Fred Leupold, of Portland, who has for many years been widely recognized as an instrument maker of exceptional ability, has gained marked distinction through his successful career as a maker of scientific instruments and his firm, Leupold, Volpel & Company, is one of the best known in its line in the United States. The following interesting description of this business was printed in the Portland Daily Journal, after an interview with Mr. Leupold: "If one were to wager a million of Uncle Sam's attractive gold dollars that not one hundred persons in Portland, aside from a tiny few of one profession, knew of the place to which this article refers, he would win the bet. And yet it is one of the most useful industries we have. Its products are the most intricate of any. They are mystifying to the layman. He looks at them, and knows not their uses. He examines them, and remains in ignorance. He carefully scrutinizes them, and is not the wiser. They are purchased by governments because indispensable to their requirements. They have been made in Portland for shipment to India. They have been manufactured here on orders from Spain. Fashioned in this city, they are in use in the Hawaiian islands, and our friends of the British Northwest possessions employ them in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia. "There is no other institution like this one between Denver and San Francisco. It is without a competitor in the North Pacific states, and is the supply depot for the commonwealths of Washington, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and Oregon, with established agencies in California. "Located at 107 East Seventeenth street north is the firm of Leupold-Volpel & Company, makers of scientific instruments, an industry employing fifteen of the highest skilled workmen. They have to be highly skilled. Their productions are made with the exactness of a watch. To the unitiated the term 'scientific instruments' doesn't mean much. The untutored mind imagines it a something of consequence only to those with 'heads filled with learning,' and of small value to the world at large. That's a mistake. This factory's production is as important to the great, throbbing business pulse of the world as the heart is important to the body whose motive power it is. The Journal representative was convinced of this as the courteous Frederick Leupold, manager of the firm, kindly explained the mysteries of the institution. "'Twenty-one years ago,' he stated, 'we opened a small repair shop on Sixth street, on the West Side. Our business soon began to gain vigorous momentum, our reputation for painstaking construction seemed to reach interested people, and soon we were forced to secure more commodious quarters, procure new machinery and enter the field of manufacturing. Our first product was a precise engineer's transit. this instrument our equipment must To construct include a graduating engine. This is a refined piece of mechanism for dividing a circle with faultless accuracy into three hundred and sixty degrees. It was made for us in Germany and imported into this country. "'This engineer's transit was as perfect as any made in the world. It could not be bettered, and we are making transits and levels of the same quality still. We have taken climatic conditions into consideration in the design of our transits and levels, and this makes them especially suited to the Pacific Northwest. Many of them have been in use for several years, and are today, by foremost members of the engineering profession. "'Again outgrowing our quarters, we removed to this building where you find us now, away from the congested district, free from the city's dust, vibrations and magnetic disturbances, an essential factor in our work. "'In 1912 we began the manufacture of hydrometric instruments known as Stevens' Continuous Water Stage Recorders. These are used to automatically record the stages of water in lakes, rivers, mountain streams, reservoirs, irrigating ditches, canals, sewers, millraces and in drainage work. The United States government is one of our best patrons for these. They are largely used for irrigating projects in the United States, the Hawaiian islands, and in fact throughout the world. The slightest fall or rise of water is recorded or indicated by these instruments. Once set they require no attention whatever. The attendant may be absent for weeks, but the gauge remains "on the job" as faithfully as if his eyes were constantly on it. "'Our output at this time largely consists of continuous water stage recorders, eight-day recording water gauges, duplex water stage recorders and long distance water stage recorders. The latter is an electrically operated instrument, where the recording mechanism may be located in the office and the sending apparatus miles away, if necessary, on a stream or lake or reservoir. Any fluctuation, however minute, in the water on which it is stationed will be transmitted by electrical impulses to the recording mechanism and by it faithfully recorded on a continuous sheet of record paper. These are frequently installed at very remote places, and will operate like a clock for long periods without the least attention. We make four styles of surveying instruments adapted to the requirements of every class of surveying. "'In addition to our regular work, we make to order many scientific instruments of special construction,' Mr. Leupold concluded. 'Our repair department is supplied with every essential device to take care of all makes of broken or injured instruments. In locating our plant in Portland we have anticipated the needs of a large and promising country, rich in natural resources, in the development of which we wish to have a hare. We like Portland. We like the people of Portland. We like this great West and expect to end our days within its delightful environs.' "Visitors are welcomed to the factory of Leupold, Volpel & Company and it is a most interesting place. It is considerable of an education to spend an hour with these gentlemen." The inventor of the water stage recorders referred to in the foregoing paragraphs is J. C. Stevens, who was formerly district engineer of the United States Geological Survey and is now a consulting engineer in Portland. Frederick Leupold was born in Germany on the 12th day of September, 1875, and after completing the public school course, received a good technical education in mechanical engineering, directing his attention particularly to the making of scientific instruments. When sixteen years old he came to the United States and located in Boston, where he lived until 1907, when he came to Portland and established his present business, becoming president of Leupold, Volpel & Company and so continuing to the present time. Mr. Leupold was united in marriage to Miss Rose Volpel, a sister of Adam J. Volpel, his business partner, and to them have been born three children, namely: Marcus, who is associated with his father in business; Norbert, who is a student in the Oregon Agricultural College at Corvallis; and Pauline, in high school. Mr. Leupold is a republican in his political views and is a member of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. His hobby is flute-playing. Though quiet and unassuming in manner, he possesses a strong individuality and all who come in contact with him are impressed with his thorough knowledge of the subject to which he has devoted his life and in which he has accomplished such notable results. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley - From The Dalles to the Sea Volume III - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1928)

 HENRY WALTON GOODE The record of no business man of Portland has stood in larger measure as a synonym for honor and fairness than that of Henry Walton Goode. A spirit of marked enterprise ever characterized him in his business career and carried him into a prominent connection with large and important undertakings, and yet through all he maintained a spirit of fairness that won him the respect, admiration and enduring loyalty of employes and contemporaries alike. Long acquaintance with him meant stronger friendship, for his life in all of its various phases stood the test of intimate knowledge and of close association. His name is indelibly engraven upon the pages of Portland's history through his connection with the Portland Railroad Company and through his service as president of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. A native of Indiana, Mr. Goode was born in Newcastle, September 26, 1862, a son of Walton and Lucy (Beck) Goode. The father was of English descent and the lineage could be traced back in direct line for over nine hundred years, the family in America being the Goodes of Virginia, one of the leading aristocratic families of that state. Walton Goode died when his son Henry was but seven years of age, but the mother is still living and is yet a resident of Indianapolis. Educated in the public schools, Henry W. Goode entered the high school when twelve or thirteen years of age, and the record which he therein made was the highest in his class. At the age of fifteen years he left school to accept a position in the business world. Without the advantage of a college course he was largely a self-educated and self-made man, learning many valuable lessons in the school of experience and becoming in time a man of wide and comprehensive knowledge. He made rapid progress in the business world, his ability winning him promotion from time to time until at the age of nineteen years he was occupying the position of head bookkeeper with one of the largest wholesale grocery firms in Minneapolis. He later turned his attention to the electrical machinery business, at which he became an expert. The broad field that opened before him gave him ample scope for his energy and ambition - his dominant qualities. He displayed great thoroughness in everything which he undertook and laid thorough the foundation for the success which he achieved in later life. The period between 1885 and 1892 was devoted to service with the Westinghouse Electrical Manufacturing Company of Pittsburgh and the General Electric Company of New York. On the 20th of November, 1890, Mr. Goode was united in marriage to Miss Edith Fairclough, a daughter of Henry W. and Minerva J. (Calkins) Fairclough, the wedding being celebrated in Chicago, Illinois. The following year they came to Portland, and Mr. Goode accepted the position of vice president and general manager of the Portland General Electric Company. He was then but twenty-seven years of age. At that time the common stock was selling for only twenty cents on the dollar, but his splendid management, however, brought it up to par. For seven years he remained manager of the Portland General Electric Company. Owing to a matter of sentiment he hesitated to accept the presidency, which showed the greatness of the man. In his position as vice president and general manager, however, his initiative spirit and his recognition of possibilities were brought into play. He saw the opportunities for a combination of forces and later consolidated all of the different electrical interests under the name of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, a thirty million dollar corporation, of which he became the active head and president. This included the Portland General Electric Company, the Portland Railway Company, and the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company, of all of which organizations Mr. Goode was made president at the time the merger was completed. The amalgamation of these interests occurred about 1906, and he continued at the head of the consolidated company until his death. His labors were instrumental in making the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company the great corporation which it is today, being one of the most important of this character in the country. He bent his energies to administrative direction and executive control, and regarded no detail of the business as too unimportant to engage his attention. In fact his thorough understanding of every phase of it, his previous practical training along electrical lines and his recognition of future possibilities were strong and dominant elements in the success which attended the mammoth corporation. After the death of Mr. Goode, Frederick Strauss, the well known banker and financier of New York, asked Mrs. Goode if she had ever heard the true story of how the New York interests had taken over the several properties which constitute the consolidation. Upon her replying "No," he said it was the distinct understanding that Henry W. Goode be made president and manager of the company. While Mr. and Mrs. Goode were visiting the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904 he received a telegram requesting him to accept the presidency of the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland. He had no desire to do so, but his wife was anxious that he should. From St. Louis she went to Chicago and after her departure Mr. Goode received a telegram insisting upon his acceptance of the presidency. He wired Mrs. Goode that he would not take the place and she answered by telegram that she would be greatly disappointed if he did not. Acceding to her wishes, upon his return to the city he accepted and had charge of the fair for two years before it opened. At the time he remarked to Mrs. Goode that when the fair was over he would show the people that he was honest. He took full charge and gave the greater part of his time to the development of its interests. One of the notable features in connection with his work in behalf of the exposition was that after a delegation of Portland men failed to secure consent in Washington for the erection of the government building on the peninsula he went to the capital city, where he spent twelve or thirteen days, during which time he met Secretary Shaw and others, with whom the matter of location was discussed. The objection to the erection of the government building on the peninsula was that at times the land is overflowed by a rise of the river. Before going east, Mr. Goode studied the question thoroughly, looked up all the history and information which he could get on the subject and proved almost absolutely that 1905 was not the year in which an overflow might be anticipated. As a result of his labors consent of President Roosevelt and others in authority was secured and no one who visited the exposition will ever forget the beautiful effect produced by the location of the government building with the bridge of all nations connecting the peninsula with the main land. On that occasion President Roosevelt, impressed by the remarkable personality and ability of Mr. Goode, escorted him clear to the outer door and said: "Any man ought to be proud to shake hands with you." The exposition was not financed at as high a figure as some other fairs, yet he made of it a splendid success. His powers of management, his keen, clear discernment of needs and opportunities enabled him to so direct interests that the fair opened just at the moment planned, with everything finished and in good shape, notwithstanding that a big strike occurred among the laborers just two weeks before the exposition was to be inaugurated. During this strike Mr. Goode was advised by the city officials and his friends to be very careful in going around alone, as they were fearful that he might meet with personal injury or violence. He paid no heed to these injunctions but went out among the men and soon had them again at work. Kind words and just measures were employed and they recognized that Mr. Goode might be depended upon to further their interests. Not only in the business management of the fair did Mr. Goode gain wide recognition but also as the social head of the city during the summer of 1905. With the assistance of Mrs. Goode he entertained all of the leading citizens of the United States who attended the fair, held receptions and gave elaborate dinners. One of the most notable of the latter was held in honor of J. J. Hill, the railway magnate, on which occasion Caruso's full orchestra furnished the music. On "Portland Day" there was the largest attendance ever seen at a fair in proportion to the size of the city, there being over ninety thousand admissions to the grounds. Mr. Goode received a salary of twelve thousand dollars as president of the fair but spent all of this and more in entertaining those who officially visited the exposition, together with distinguished European and American citizens who visited it in an unofficial capacity. He also gave a dinner to five hundred working girls on the grounds and during this made one of the famous speeches which gained him prominence as an orator. Another large dinner was given in the New York building, on which occasion the entire Mormon choir surrounded the building and rendered a number of vocal selections. Mr. Goode closed the fair at twelve o'clock on the night designated from the outset. On that occasion he made another memorable speech, thanking the people for their cooperation and assistance and telling them that he considered that upon him as its president had been conferred as great an honor as any man could desire. He held his watch in his hand and exactly as midnight was struck he declared the fair closed and bade goodnight to the people. Those who visited the exposition can never forget the picture of the grounds, with their architectural adornment amid the fine setting of hills and mountains. No other American exposition has ever paid a dividend but under the management of Mr. Goode thirty-five per cent was turned over to the stockholders. At a dinner given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Goode in his home in Washington, Hon. Joseph Cannon, speaker of the house, said: "It will go down in history that Mr. Goode had done what no other man had done." On more than one occasion in public address Theodore Wilcox said: "No one ought to take credit for the success of our fair; it is due our president." When his duties in this connection were ended Mr. Goode did not take the rest which many people advised but at once resumed his duties with the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company and under the continued strain his health became impaired. Moreover, labor troubles soon arose and no one else could have managed the situation as he did. A Mr. Burton of Chicago, a well known strike leader, came to Portland and tried to influence the men in the service of the company to go upon a strike. There were over seventeen hundred employes, but, recognizing the fact that they had in Mr. Goode a just, fair and considerate employer, they refused to follow the dictates of the labor leader. Mr. Burton then went back to Chicago but after about ten weeks returned, determined that the company's employes should strike. Because of their continued refusal he boycotted all of them and the men then dropped the union and joined a brotherhood with Mr. Goode at the head. C. A. Dolph, one of the prominent attorneys of Portland, said that these men did not drop the union for any reason except their friendship for Mr. Goode and took this means of expressing their loyalty to and regard for him. He had the love and friendship of all who knew him and especially those who worked for him. When he passed away some one mentioned to one of the motormen on the line that the president was dead. With astonishment and sorrow the motorman replied: "Not our boss, our friend?" It is said that he never walked past a dog without patting him on the head and saying: "Hello, old fellow!" Another instance of his great kindness is given in the story that he owned a poor old white horse which was very sick, and he hired two men to stay with the animal for three weeks and care for it until it died. "Man's inhumanity to man" had no part in his life. He was quick to recognize the good in others and to reward faithfulness and justice was one of his paramount features. To Mr. and Mrs. Goode were born two children: Helen, who attended school in New York city and is now married; and Henry, a sketch of whom follows. In his family he was a devoted husband and father and found his greatest joy in ministering to the happiness of his wife and children. He had the highest ideals for his children and in his letters to his wife said: "Train them that their lives may be of service to their fellowmen." That he might have needed rest, he went east and after an illness of only four days passed away at Atlantic City on Easter Sunday morning, the 1st of April, 1907. Something of the regard and honor in which he was everywhere held is indicated in the fact that five thousand dollars were sent to be expended upon flowers for the funeral, the money coming from his friends and admirers in all parts of the country, and at the time the funeral services were being held in Chicago all cars in Portland stopped for ten minutes. He was prominent in the Masonic fraternity, attaining the thirty-second degree, and also belonged to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and other lodges. He likewise held membership in the Commercial Club, was both vice president and president of the Arlington Club and was popular in all social organizations. He was being talked of for senator at the time of his death and would have been accorded almost any honor, political or otherwise, that he desired. He was a man of fine personal appearance and while he attained to the position of one of the foremost business men of the northwest it was not alone his success that will make him remembered and honored for years to come but the greater and grander quality of humanity that quality which recognizes the rights of other individuals, which seeks justice and fairness and will sacrifice personal interests rather than infringe upon the privilege of others. It is said that there is no better criterion of man's real nature than the honor which his employes entertain for him and judged by this standard Mr. Goode stood as a man among men, and to him were given as a spontaneous and free-will offering the respect and honor of hundreds who served him. At his death Mrs. Goode received hundreds of telegrams and letters not only from the most distinguished men of this nation but also from eminent men of Europe, expressing their deep sorrow. The feeling entertained for him by those who served on the board of directors of the Lewis and Clark Exposition was expressed in a most handsomely engraved memoir, which was sent to Mrs. Goode and which read: "In the death of H. W. Goode, president of this corporation, the board of directors feel that the state of Oregon and the city of Portland have sustained an irreparable loss. To his unusual executive ability, his ready grasp of affairs, his generous spirit and uniform kindness toward all men was due the unsurpassed success of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, an achievement of national importance and in the conduct of which he endeared himself alike to associates and subordinates. "A man of splendid public spirit, believing in the future of the state of his adoption he was ever ready to identify himself with measures of public benefit. Liberal in his benefactions, a sincere friend, an exemplary husband and father, his death in the prime of manhood and usefulness is no ordinary loss to the public or his friends and this board, composed of fellow workers and personal friends, desires to express its deepest grief at his death. "Therefore, be it "Resolved, that the board of directors of the Lewis and Clark Centennial American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair desires to record their unanimous assent to the foregoing expression of their regard and estimate of their coworker, and be it further "Resolved, that this memorial be spread upon the records of the corporation and an engrossed copy be sent to the family of Mr. Goode." Commenting editorially upon the death of Mr. Goode under the title "With his Work Undone," the Oregonian said: "When a man dies who has completed his three score years and ten there is mourning but no complaint. Far otherwise does it appear when a man like the late H. W. Goode is called to his account in the prime of life, in the pride of his strength and the vigor of his career. There is then a sense of power wasted, of blighted hopes and thwarted purposes. So far as we can see from the lowly plane whereon we stand in this life there is no plan which untimely death helps to fulfill. Many men are hurried away into eternity with the problems of their lives unsolved, their ambitions unachieved and their work undone. The poet Keats, when he died, had but struck upon his lyre those first notes of surpassing sweetness whose passionate allurement will go to the end of time a question without an answer. When Byron perished at thirty-seven he had but just found his true voice. Had he lived longer he might have come to stand for the modern world, with its aspiration and rebellions, as Dante stands for the age of faith. Strange appears the destiny that stilled the voices of Byron, Keats and Shelley with a world of unuttered melody upon their lips. Alexander of Macedon perished with great undertakings teeming in his brain. 'However extensive the territory of heaven may be, it must be densely populated with eminent personages long before this time; while the need of the earth for ability and integrity becomes more crying every day. There may be a reason for greater character." F. M. Gilmore, of the San Francisco Call, wrote: "I don't know intelligence the premature cutting short of human existence must forever remain a problem and a mystery." Simple yet great in its simplicity were the words of Theodore Wilcox: "We have lost our biggest man." Dr. K. A. J. McKenzie said: "I have never read about a greater character." F. M. Gilmore, of the San Francisco Call, wrote: "I don't know what I can say to you that can assuage your grief at the loss of such a husband. He has gone and left us that is true - but he has left behind him the great mark that stamps the honored man. He leaves that magnificent heritage of nobility, of honesty of purpose, of sincerity of character, of love of home that makes his memory dear to every living soul who ever came within his acquaintanceship. I feel that I have lost a very great and a very dear friend." John Barrett, president of the International Bureau of American Republics, wrote: "Mr. Goode in my mind was a rare man - nay more, an extraordinary man of a kind which has too few representatives on the earth. His masterly brain, his keen executive capacity, his power to command and his gentleness with all caused everybody to admire and follow him. Portland and Oregon suffer an irreparable loss in his death, while all his friends will look in vain to find another to take his place." Vice President Fairbanks sent several telegrams to Mrs. Goode in which he expressed his love for Mr. Goode and said he considered him one of the greatest men he had ever met. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea Volume II - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1928)

LEO J. HANLEY Leo J. Hanley, who went to France with the American Expeditionary Force, is now devoting his attention to the practice of law and ranks with Portland's talented attorneys. He was born September 17, 1895, and is a native of Hurley, Wisconsin. His father, John Hanley, is deceased and the mother, Margaret Hanley, now resides in Butte, Montana. Leo J. Hanley received his higher education in Creighton University of Nebraska, from which he won the degree of LL. B. in 1917, and in the same year responded to the call to arms, joining a company of infantry. For nineteen months he was stationed abroad, receiving the commission of second lieutenant, and in 1919 was honorably discharged. At Butte, Montana, he was one of the legal advisers of Senator W. A. Clark, now deceased, acting in that capacity for about two years, and in 1921 came to Portland. He has since been associated with Prescott W. Cookingham and their attention is given chiefly to corporation matters and the handling of estates. The firm occupies a suite of offices on the second floor of the Spalding building and its clientele is rapidly increasing in volume as well as in importance. Mr. Hanley was married July 18, 1925, to Miss Fabian Rosche, of Salem, Oregon, and they now have a daughter, Patricia Lee, who was born February 23, 1927. Mr. Hanley gives his political allegiance to the republican party and adheres to the Roman Catholic faith. Along fraternal lines he is connected with the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is one of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and also belongs to the American Legion, the Multnomah Athletic Club, and the Multnomah County and Oregon State Bar Associations. Mr. Hanley is a young man of pleasing personality and possesses those qualities which are essential to success in the legal profession. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea Volume II - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1928 )

WILLIAM H. THOMAS In every profession there are found men who by force of character and intellect rise above their fellows, receiving the admiration and deference which the world yields to superior ability. Of this type is William H. Thomas, a distinguished Portlander, whose achievements as a forest engineer have made him known throughout the Pacific northwest. He was born in 1886, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, of which state his parents, William H. and Amma (Shaw) Thomas, were early settlers, and the father was numbered among its pioneer lumbermen. He has passed away and the mother is now living in Boise, Idaho. W. H. Thomas received his public school education in Wisconsin and continued his studies in Stanford University, which conferred upon him the degree of Civil Engineer in 1910. In the year of his graduation he entered the field of forest engineering in association with Mason C. Meservey, also a native of the Badger state, organizing the firm of Thomas & Meservey, and this relationship has since existed. Their work includes the estimating of timber, the issuing of maps, the making of topographical surveys, and the surveying and building of logging railroads. The firm of Thomas & Meservey represents investment bankers, appraising values for bond issues, etc., and employs more than sixty-five engineers and timber cruisers. This is the leading firm of the kind in the west and its operations also extend to Canada. The business is conducted with notable efficiency and means much to Portland, in which the main offices of the firm are located. In 1912 Mr. Thomas married Miss Mary Hutchins, a native of San Diego, California, and also a graduate of Stanford University. To this union has been born a daughter, Alice Ann. Mr. Thomas is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Multnomah Athletic and Golf Clubs. In politics he is a republican and in all matters of public moment he manifests a deep and helpful interest. His tireless energy and talents, natural and acquired, have carried him to the summit of his profession and made him a power in constructive development and evolution, while the strength and depth of his character have enabled him to win and retain the respect and esteem of his fellowmen. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea Volume II - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1928)

MARK M. MATTHIESSEN Studiousness, combined with the habit of thoroughness, has enabled Mark M. Matthiessen to advance steadily in the profession of his choice and in legal circles of Portland he occupies a place of prominence. He was born October 10, 1882, in Monticello, Iowa, and is a son of Anton and Louisa (Rettig) Matthiessen. His father is a retired implement dealer and the mother has passed away. Mark M. Matthiessen completed his education in Stanford University, from which he received the degree of J. D. in 1911, and since his admission to the bar he has practiced in Portland. His services are much in demand in the organization and reorganization of corporations, in devising methods to meet business needs, in rescuing commercial interests from disastrous conditions and in furnishing plans for rehabilitation. He is a member of the well known firm of Wood, Montague & Matthiessen, which occupies a suite of offices in the Yeon building and conducts a large and important law business. In 1917 Mr. Matthiessen was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Hutchins, a member of one of the prominent families of Portland. Mr. Matthiessen casts his ballot for the candidates of the republican party but is not active in politics. is a Mason, a life member of the Multnomah Club, He and also belongs to the City Club and the local, state and national bar associations. To those projects which are destined to prove of benefit to Portland he lends the weight of his support and is endowed with those qualities which inspire esteem and friendship. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea Volume II - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1928)

A. D. WAKEMAN One of Portland's highly regarded business men is A. D. Wakeman, who is conducting an extensive and successful bond business, with offices in the United States National Bank building. Honorable and dependable in all of his affairs, he commands the confidence of all who have dealt with him. He was born in Glenbrook, Fairfield county, Connecticut, and is a son of W. J. and Mary (Relyea) Wakeman. His father died in Connecticut, and the mother later came to Portland, where she is still residing. A. D. Wakeman secured a good public school education and attended the University of Cincinnati. He came to Portland in 1906 and entered the employ of the Honeyman Hardware Company, with which concern he remain for three years. During the following ten years he was engaged in the building material business, after which he was for three years connected with the Oregon Brass Works. In 1922 he engaged in buying and selling public utility, industrial, railroad and municipal bonds, in handling which he has been notably successful. He is a keen observer of conditions and a close student of financial affairs and is thus in a position to render a high type of service to his clients. Mr. Wakeman is a republican in his political views and takes a helpful interest in public affairs, giving his support to those measures which promise to promote the public welfare. He is a member of the Multnomah Athletic Club and the University Club and is an extremely popular member of the circles in which he moves. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley - From The Dalles to the Sea Volume II - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1928)

DONALD H. BATES Donald H. Bates, junior member of the well known insurance firm of Durham & Bates, is an active and aggressive business man and since coming to this city has won not only material success, but also the respect and confidence of the people of the community. Mr. Bates was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1895, and is a son of John W. and Adeline C. (Connor) Bates. His father, who was a pioneer of Colorado, where he was long connected with mining interests, is deceased, and his widow is now residing in San Francisco, California. Donald H. Bates attended the public and high schools and entered the University of California, from which he was graduated in 1918. He then enlisted in the United States naval flying corps, in which he was commissioned an ensign, and served as an instructor until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged. He entered the employ of Marsh & McLennan marine insurance agents of San Francisco, in whose office he remained until 1921, when he came to Portland with that firm. In 1922 he formed a partnership with Gilbert H. Durham, under the firm name of Durham & Bates, and engaged in the marine insurance business, in which they have met with a very gratifying measure of success. In 1921 Mr. Bates was united in marriage to Miss Helen Arendt, of San Francisco, and they are the parents of twin sons, Donald, Jr., and John. Mr. Bates is a member of the Oswego Country Club and the Multnomah Athletic Club and gives his political support to the republican party. He has gained a large acquaintance in this city, being a man of cordial and friendly manner, commands the good will and esteem of all who know him. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley - From The Dalles to the Sea Volume II - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1928)

JULIUS L. MEIER Liberally endowed with that faculty known as "the commercial sense" and thoroughly imbued with the progressive spirit of the west, Julius L Meier occupies a commanding position in mercantile circles of Portland and from the age of nineteen years has been active in the management of the Meier & Frank department store, founded by his father, in fact he grew up in the store. Business, however, constitutes but one phase of his life, for Mr. Meier is a broad-guaged man who has directed his energies into those channels through which flows the greatest and most permanent good to the largest number, proving his public spirit by actual achievements. Both his city and state have derived marked benefit from his generous, unselfish nature and constructive labors, and judged from the standpoint of usefulness, his life has been notably successful. A native of Portland, Mr. Meier was born December 31, 1876, and is a son of Aaron Meier, mentioned elsewhere in this work. He attended the public schools of the city and was graduated from the University of Oregon. He was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in Portland. In 1895 he entered the Meier & Frank establishment as assistant to Mr Frank and soon displayed a natural aptitude for the business, with which he has been identified for a period of thirty-two years. He combines a capacity for detail with executive ability of a high order and has formulated well devised plans for the expansion of the business, at the same time increasing the prestige enjoyed by the firm. Its present officers are: Abraham Meier, president; Julius L. Meier, vice president and general manager; Leon Hirsch, secretary; and Lloyd Frank, treasurer. The first store, thirty-five by fifty feet, was opened on Front street in May, 1867, by Aaron Meier, who was later joined by Sigmund Frank, and during the formative period in the history of the business the partners waited upon their customers, thus establishing that democratic spirit which has prevailed to the present time. Some twenty years later the firm of Meier & Frank moved into an adjoining building, opening on First street, and in 1885 they leased the ground, on which they erected a two-story structure at Nos. 185-87 First street, covering a space one hundred by two hundred feet. Four years later a quarter of a block at the corner of Second and Taylor streets was purchased and a two-story brick annex was completed. In 1891 a store at the corner of Second and Yamhill streets was added, giving an opening on four streets. The company purchased the ground on Fifth street, bounded by Morrison and Alder, and in 1897 erected thereon a five-story building. This location was at that time beyond the retail zone. The quarter occupied by the Sixth street annex was purchased in 1904 and the present fourteen-story building was completed in June, 1915, constituting the largest and finest department store in the Pacific northwest. This is a store for all the people and has never lost its standard of friendly atmosphere and courteous service, and is known as "Portland's own store." The marked success of the Meier & Frank establishment is based principally upon the policy of close relationship between the firm, its employes and its patrons, which was established by Aaron Meier. "Service First" is the slogan of the store. Courtesy, patience, a neat appearance, a pleasant voice and a smile, all go toward giving good service. Knowing that a satisfied customer constitutes the best advertisement, the firm exerts every effort to meet the demands of the trade and no dissatisfied customer ever leaves their establishment. The business has endured for seventy-one years because it was reared upon the solid foundation of commercial integrity, and the firm name has become synonymous with all that is best and highest in the ideals of merchandising. In 1901 Mr. Meier married Miss Grace R. Mayer, of Portland, and they became the parents of three children, Jean Ellen, Elsa Frances and Julius L. Meier, Jr. Mr. Meier was a prime mover in the project for the building of the Columbia River highway and with nine associates underwrote Vista House, each man contributing ten thousand dollars toward the fund of one hundred thousand dollars. At Crown Point, overlooking the majestic river, stands this memorial to the pioneers. The building is a beautiful structure of concrete, steel, copper and glass and is used as a rest house for the hundreds of thousands of tourists who traverse the Columbia River highway. It occupies the highest point reached by the drive and provides inspiring views of the highway. Mr. Meier was chosen president of the Columbia River Highway Association and in perfecting this great public project expended much time, effort and money. He is a chairman of the aviation committee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and one of the chief promoters of an aerial route from Pasco, Washington, to Portland, also working untiringly for the opening of a route for airplanes over the Columbia River gorge. In many movements for the development of this great region Mr. Meier has been a dominant figure and is rightly termed "one of the most progressive men in the Pacific northwest." Actuated by high ideals, he has used practical methods in their attainment, and his life presents a notable example of what constitutes good citizenship. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley - From The Dalles to the Sea Volume III - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1928)

AARON MEIER One of the notable elements in Portland's growth has been found in the adaptability with which certain representatives of her citizenship have utilized the opportunities of the great west, have used the chance which the new world offers and have become builders of her greatness and promoters of her development. It is in this connection that Aaron Meier should be mentioned. While his activities have long since ceased, his name yet figures in connection with one of the largest commercial establishments of this part of the country the great Meier & Frank department store, the "Marshall Field's" of the Pacific coast,of which he was the founder and builder and which is a monument to his ability, foresight, discrimination and unabating energy. Aaron Meier was born at Ellerstadt, in Bavaria, Germany, May 22, 1831, and was a son of Abraham and Rebecca (Levi) Meier. Although he was left fatherless at an early age, he had the benefit of the wise guidance and counsel of his mother, who reached the age of seventy-seven years. In his early youth he attended school and he began earning his livelihood by working in a brickyard with an uncle. The stories which reached him concerning America and her opportunities led him to determine to try his fortune in the new world in 1855, his brothers, Julius and Emanuel, having already crossed the Atlantic. Turning his face to the setting sun, he journeyed westward until he joined his brothers in Downville, California, where he continued for two years and then in 1857 came to Portland. He found a city of limited population scattered along the bank of the Willamette, with a business district on First and Front streets. He lived to see marvelous changes ere death called him. The city had grown along the lines of modern development and improvement and Mr. Meier had been a valuable contributing factor to this result. He felt that Portland, advantageously situated, had before it a notable future and he resolved to cast in his fortunes with the residents already here. After studying the general situation for a brief period he formed a partnership with a merchant by the name of Mariholtz and for seven years they engaged in the sale of dry goods and general merchandise, their trade steadily growing until it became one of substantial proportions for that period. Mr. Meier then felt it to be his duty to return home and visit his mother and it was during this trip to his native land that he wedded Miss Jeanette Hirsch, a daughter of Moses and Fannie (Levi) Hirsch. A little later he started with his bride for the new world and Portland received the young couple gladly, welcoming them into the social life, while Mr. Meier returned to commercial circles to occupy a still more creditable and prominent position than he had already attained before he retraced his steps across the Atlantic. He opened what was then a pretentious dry goods house between Yamhill and Taylor streets, on Front street, personally erecting the building and equipping it for the conduct of the trade. As his patronage increased he secured better quarters and afterward occupied a store opposite his old place on Front street. While visiting San Francisco to purchase stock Mr. Meier had formed the acquaintance of Emil Frank, who entered his employ as a clerk, and later Sigmund Frank, who had come from Germany to establish a home in San Francisco, removed from that city to Portland and entered the store. After a time Emil Frank sold his interest to Mr. Meier and his brother, Sigmund Frank, and thus came into existence the great partnership which so largely furthered the commercial development of the city. In 1882 the store and property were wiped out by a disastrous fire, but the courageous spirit of the partners was not quenched and it was only a brief period until they had again purchased a stock of goods and were once more operating successfully in the commercial circles of the city. From Front street a removal was made in an early day to First street and there larger quarters were secured from time to time until the store faced not only on First but also on Second, Yamhill, and Taylor streets. A most liberal patronage was accorded the firm, which met every requirement of the trade and by progressive and honorable methods secured a business that made it a leader in the mercantile world of the northwest. A further removal was made to Fifth, Morrison and Alder streets, then considered outside the retail zone of Portland, but the store continued to draw trade and has remained to the present time the foremost mercantile enterprise of the city. With the passing years the young couple who had arrived from Germany to take up their abode in Portland became the parents of four children. Fannie, the eldest, married Sigmund Frank, her father's partner, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work. Abraham, the elder son, who became president of the Meier & Frank Company, married Minnie Eising, a former resident of New York, and they had four children: Harold, Allen, Jeanette and Frank. Hattie, the third child, died at the age of two and one-half years. The youngest was Julius, who became manager of the Meier & Frank Company and who wedded Grace Mayer, of Portland, by whom he had three children, Jean Ellen, Elsa Frances and Julius L. Meier, Jr. The family circle was again broken by the hand of death when on the 16th of August, 1889, the husband and father passed away, leaving to his family not only a handsome competence but also the priceless heritage of an untarnished name and a record that will always serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished through individual effort, intelligently directed. He deserves mention among the founders and promoters of Portland, his business activities featuring in the commercial development of the city. He concentrated his efforts and attention largely upon his business and never sought to figure prominently in other public connections, yet when Portland needed assistance along any line contributing to her growth and improvement he made immediate and generous response. He thus measured up to the highest standards of citizenship, for he endorsed every plan contributing to civic virtue and civic pride. In the upbuilding of his own fortunes he utilized methods that would bear the closest investigation and scrutiny. His honesty was an outstanding quality in. his career and his progressiveness enabled him to pass beyond the point that others had reached and to build strongly for the future. He never had occasion to regret his determination to try his fortune in America and Oregon received a valued citizen when he cast in his lot with the residents of Portland. The sterling worth of his character was acknowledged by all and with him acquaintanceship was soon converted into friendship. What he accomplished represented the utilization of his innate talents and powers, but his qualities were such as any might cultivate and in every relation of life he measured up to the highest standards of manhood and of citizenship. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley - From The Dalles to the Sea Volume III - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 1928)

SIGMUND FRANK No visitor to Portland and no resident of the city is unfamiliar with the name of Meier & Frank, a name that has symbolized mercantile activity and progressiveness here through many decades. It was in this connection that Sigmund Frank came to rank as one of the representative men of Oregon, but it was not alone his success, notable as this was, that brought him before the public. In his make-up there were certain manly qualities, high purposes and lofty ideals that gained him the respect of all and his consideration for his fellowmen won for him the unqualified friendship of those with whom he was brought in contact. Germany gave to the new world this man who was destined to play so important a part in the steady expansion of his adopted city. He was born in Bechtheim on the 12th of February, 1850, and there he received a thorough educational training, combined with that home discipline that made him recognize the worth of character and the advantage of opportunity. He was twenty years of age when he bade adieu to friends and native land and sailed for the United States. For two years he remained a resident of New York, but he believed that superior advantages were accorded in the far west and was ambitious to utilize the advantages offered on the Pacific coast. He had been liberally educated in music while in Germany and by teaching piano and violin while in New York he earned the money that enabled him to meet the expenses of a trip to San Francisco, 'where he arrived in 1872. He had not yet acquired an intimate knowledge of the English language and was somewhat unfamiliar with American business methods and customs, but undeterred by such handicaps he started out to win a name and place for himself in the empire of the Pacific northwest. While in San Francisco he formed the acquaintance of Aaron Meier, of Portland, who had followed his elder brother, Emil Meier, to the Oregon metropolis and had become a clerk in his brother's store. It was through this avenue that Mr. Frank became identified with commercial interests in Portland at the close of the year 1872. He soon gave demonstration of his capability and was admitted to a partnership, thus forming the firm of Meier & Frank - a name that is inseparably associated with commercial development here. Writing in this connection, the Oregonian at the time of Mr. Frank's death said: "It was not a sudden burst of glory and spread but a steady climb up the hazardous hill of mercantile business. The little general store, which carried about everything from calico and groceries to hardware and implements, began to grow; more stock was taken on and more room was added as patronage increased. From Front street the store was moved to First, and then the block bounded by First, Second, Yamhill and Taylor streets was taken in. In 1889 Aaron Meier died and the responsibility of head of the firm fell upon Mr. Frank. His training under the senior member of the firm and his own experience had fitted him for the place and the mercantile establishment continued along in the steady progress it had made from the beginning, when the stock invoiced no more than two hundred or three hundred dollars. Eight years after the death of Aaron Meier the store had again outgrown its quarters and Mr. Frank purchased the site on First street between Alder and Morrison streets. He was advised against this purchase but he had observed things; he had faith in Portland; he saw in his mind the advancement of the business district west from the river and went ahead with the building of a large department store. His judgment, as usual, was correct. The crowning feature of the store was the erection of a ten-story annex on Sixth street, which stands as a monument to the memory of the man who devoted a lifetime exclusively to build up a great department store." In 1885 Mr. Frank wedded Fannie Meier, the eldest daughter of his partner, and they became the parents of two sons, M. Lloyd and Aaron. It was four years after his marriage that Mr. Frank became head of the business, following the death of Mr. Meier. All through the intervening period he had aided largely in the upbuilding of the business, which had far outgrown its quarters, and Mr. Frank believed that there was a still more brilliant future before Portland and wished to make his establishment commensurate with the expected development of the city. The store was originally located on First and Second streets, then the business center of Portland, but the trend of trade was upward from the river, and in order to meet the requirements of his expanding business he purchased property on Fifth, Morrison and Alder; where he erected a building one hundred by two hundred feet and five stories in height with basement. Many believed that this was far beyond the needs of Portland, but Mr. Frank looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the opportunities and possibilities of the future and made his establishment the center of the retail district. Hardly had the firm become established in its new quarters before with clear-sighted vision Mr. Frank realized that there was still greater need and began planning for the erection of a large annex, double in height, the size of the store which he had already promoted. He made the name of Meier & Frank one known throughout the Pacific coast country. He planned for the future as well as for the present and he made his labors most fruitful because of his practical methods. He studied the trade, knew the demands of the public and kept in advance of competitors by educating his patrons to purchase the latest and most attractive goods put out by the markets of the world. Moreover, he kept in close touch with his employes, upon whom he impressed a sense of individual responsibility, and he gained their full cooperation through his kindliness and justice in all of his dealings with them. He sought and welcomed suggestions from the humblest to the most important of his employes and none ever feared to enter his presence or express views concerning the business. He waited not for the city's growth but set a standard of advancement which Portland followed. His contribution to the development of the city can scarcely be overestimated and the business which he was so active in establishing and promoting continues one of the chiefest of the mercantile establishments of the entire northwest. In his relations to the public welfare Mr. Frank manifested the same progressive spirit. He knew and studied Portland's needs and her opportunities and his cooperation could always be counted upon to further any measure for the general good, yet he never sought office nor cared to figure in public life. When there was a demand made upon his time, his effort or his means he gave of it freely. Coming to Portland at an early period in her commercial development, he was widely known throughout the city and those who came within the closer circle of his friendship found him a genial companion of kindly spirit and generous disposition. He knew and loved his city and its people and he was constantly extending a helping hand where aid was needed. Of him a contemporary writer has said: "On October 4, 1910, Portland lost its master mind in the field of commerce. Sigmund Frank had made his company in the Pacific northwest what Marshall Field did his in Chicago. He had proven more brilliant in achievement than the illustrious Chicago merchant, by pressing harder the limit of population in his territory and by winning a higher relative ascendency. And with the glory of a great commercial career clustering thickly around his vigorous intellect and but sixty years lapsed in what promised an octogenarian span the powerful mind and robust frame gave way to the extraordinary draft made upon it and Sigmund Frank breathed his last. "He lived to see finished the second great material monument to his success, which is but a stepping-stone in the advance made from comparative obscurity to preeminent business triumph. He had just completed a beautiful ten-story annex, of the most modern steel and concrete construction, to the great Meier & Frank s,tore, and this beautiful white monument, thrilling with life and business every day, stands as a most eloquent testimonial to the prowess and energy of the departed merchant. This mind has been conceded by closest observers one of the rare products of the business world. It possessed that unfaltering courage which makes anything possible. It was endowed with phenomenal strength for detail and would permit storing whole catalogues of business information for instant use. It had that superb motor power of aggressiveness and persistence which is illustrated best by the unlimited, energy of the Oregon hills where streams tumble in cataracts the year around. It embodies in these ponderous talents also the gentle touch of humanity which loved and could be loved. And running through it all was a simplicity that never changed, a modesty that was child-like in its beauty, and the frankness that goes with first-water genius." Such in brief was the history of Sigmund Frank and never shall his name cease to find a place in the annals of Portland where the prominent and honored men of the city are mentioned. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea Volume III - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1928)

A. I. BLITZ One of Portland's most energetic and successful business men is A. I. Blitz, president of the Blitz-Weinhard Company and officially identified with other important interests of this city. The Blitz-Weinhard Company had its origin in the Portland Brewing Company, which was established in 1906. In 1909 this concern was purchased by Mr. Blitz, who became its president. Since 1916 the plant has been devoted to the manufacture of cereal beverages, in which it has been very successful. In 1924 the old brewery was torn down and new buildings erected, and in 1928 this company was consolidated with the Henry Weinhard Company, under the name of the Blitz-Weinhard Company, the Henry Weinhard Company having been in continuous operation in Portland since 1862. The products of this plant consist of "Columbia Brew," "Blitz Brew," "Birch Beer" and "Creme Beer." The plant has a capacity of thirty thousand barrels a year, all of which is readily sold throughout Oregon, Washington and Idaho. It is sold in both kegs and bottles, the bottling being done at the old Weinhard plant, which is housed in a building one hundred by two hundred feet, and at this plant also a complete line of soft drinks is manufactured. The combined business is the largest of its kind in the northwest. A. I. Blitz was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1882, and is a son of Samuel S. and Martha (Kaichen) Blitz. His father was the founder of the Detroit City Glass Works. The family moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1893, and there both parents died. A. I. Blitz received a public, high school and technical education. In 1899 he entered the employ of Studebaker Brothers, with whom he remained until 1905, becoming assistant manager of their branch at Denver. He then entered the merchandise brokerage business in Denver, where he operated successfully until 1909, when he came to Portland and bought an interest in the Portland Brewery, as outlined in the preceding paragraph. In 1916 Mr. Blitz enlarged his field of operations by entering the business of Lowengart & Company, at Broadway and Burnside streets, manufacturers and jobbers of millinery goods. This is a prosperous enterprise, employing from one hundred and twenty-five to two hundred men and women, and Mr. Blitz is vice president and manager of the business. He was also one of the organizers of the Oregon Auto Insurance Company, of which he is a director. He was president of the Multnomah Security Company, builders of the Broadway building, and was an organizer and the first president of the Film Supply Company of Oregon. In 1910 Mr. Blitz was united in marriage to Miss Enid Rothchild, who was born in San Francisco, California, but was brought by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred H. Rothchild, to Portland in young girlhood. Mr. and Mrs. Blitz have four children, Arnold I., Jr., William, Howard and Eleanor. The democratic party receives his sup port and he is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Concordia Club, the Tualatin Country Club, and the Portland Chamber of Commerce. He has taken a deep interest in the upbuilding and development of his home city and was one of the organizers of the Northwest Portland Association, of which he is a director. He possesses keen business sagacity, his judgment in practical matters being held in high regard by his associates, and a very satisfactory measure of success has come to him in various ventures. He is genial and affable in manner, which has gained for him many friends, and throughout the city he commands the confidence of all who have had dealings with him. History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea Volume III - Chicago The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1928

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