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HOLDEN HARGREAVES
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For several years he was engaged in contracting and building and later established a planing mill at Roseburg, which he operated for a few years. He then retired from active business and made his home in Portland throughout his remaining days. He owned the first planer ever brought into the state. It was originally the property of Dr. John McLoughlin and was in a mill which Mr. Hargreaves purchased, and was later given to the city museum. It was industry and close application that brought to him the success which enabled him eventually to live retired and enjoy the fruits of his former toil.
During the period which Mr. Hargreaves spent in England after first coming to the new world, he was married, in 1874, to Miss Maria Tattersoll, a daughter of James and Elizabeth Tattersoll. Eight children were born of this marriage: Fred, William, Robert, John H., James A., Jane, Florence M., and Helen F., the last named being the wife of C. Watson.
Mr. Hargreaves was a member of the order of United Artisans for several years. In politics he maintained an independent course, voting according to his own judg- ment without regard to parties. He belonged to the east side Baptist church and always endeavored to follow its teachings. His life, therefore, was characterized by worthy motives and honorahle deeds. He passed away at his home in Portland, Febru- ary' 20, 1918, and was interred in Mt. Scott Cemetery.
JAMES R. LINN.
James R. Linn, president of the Marien Hotel Company, is also the owner of several ranches in the state, in addition to valuable city real estate in Salem, and he is likewise a leader in the political circles of his party in Oregon. He is a most public- spirited and progressive citizen whose influence has ever been on the side of advance- ment and improvement and his efforts have been potent elements in promoting the development and upbuilding of Salem and of the state at large.
Mr. Linn is a native of Pennsylvania. He was born in Huntingdon county, June 5, 1868, a son of James W. Linn, who became a pioneer farmer in western Iowa. His brother, Rev. Hugh Linn, was a minister of the Methodist church, preaching the gospel in Pennsylvania and Iowa, his labors proving effective forces for good in the sections of the country which he served.
Coming to the west by way of Colorado and Utah, James R. Linn, at the age of twenty-one, hecame superintendent of the farm for the State Home for Feeble Minded in California and on the 1st of April, 1896, he came to Salem, entering the employ of George W. Hubbard, for whom he acted as hop buyer, also engaging in growing hops on his own account. In 1897 he formed a partnership with Russell Catlin, the firm engaging in the growing and buying of hops, and this relationship was maintained until 1915. Mr. Linn, however, continues his hop-growing activities and is the owner of several ranches in the state, also raising grapes and berries. He owns several busi- ness blocks in Salem and is president of the Marion Hotel Company, which operates one of the best hotels in the state. The city finds in him an enthusiastic advocate, his interest being manifest in tangible cooperation with movements for its development and progress, many of its most modern improvements being directly attributable to his efforts. In 1897 he went to Dawson, Alaska, and for one year engaged in mining in that vicinity.
Mr. Linn's labors have ever been of a character that have contributed to public progress and prosperity as well as to individual success. He was a prominent factor in the creation of the state highway commission and has always taken an active part in the formation of every subsequent commission, showing extraordinary ability in suggesting the right men to fill these positions. He is an indefatigable worker for the highway and believes it to be one of the greatest factors in promoting the future progress of the state, and that it will mean as much to the future history of Oregon as her industries. It was largely through his efforts that the bond issue was put through, and he has implicit faith in the future of this section of the country, being a man of wide vision who is thoroughly alive to the wonderful possibilities of the Pacific northwest. Mr. Linn is a close personal friend of Irvin S. Cobb, America's most noted jouralist and humorist, upon whom has descended the mantle of Mark Twain, and it was owing to Mr. Linn's influence that Mr. Cobb was induced to make the trip through Oregon which resulted in his writing an article entitled "A Quest in Youbet-
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cherland," a description of Crater lake, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of January 1, 1921. This article has been widely read throughout the country and has created much interest, which will undoubtedly result in securing for Oregon large numbers of enthusiastic tourists.
In 1917 Mr. Linn was united in marriage to Miss Farris Stecker, a native of California. Mrs. Linn is a woman of unusually bright mind and cooperates with her husband in all of his business affairs, theirs being a most congenial and happy union. By a former marriage Mr. Linn has a daughter, Paula, who married Charles Dundore.
Mr. Linn gives his political allegiance to the republican party and is one of the most active and influential men in the ranks of that party in Oregon, having an intimate knowledge of political affairs in the state and a comprehensive understanding of ques- tions affecting both state and national welfare. He wields a potent influence in political circles of Oregon and was largely instrumental in securing the election of Governor Oswald West. Industry has been the keynote which has unlocked for Mr. Linn the -portals of success. Thoroughness and diligence have characterized all of his work and in business circles he has long occupied a prominent place. Throughout the period of his residence in Oregon he has taken a most active and helpful part in the work of progress and improvement, his industry and enterprise having been effective forces in promoting the development and upbuilding of the state along many lines. He has a wide circle of friends in Oregon and all who know him esteem him for his sterling worth, for they have found him trustworthy in every relation of life.
EDWARD J. SHARKEY.
The name of Sharkey has long been a prominent and honored one in industrial circles of Portland and as head of the firm of P. Sharkey & Son, Edward J. Sharkey is ably carrying forward the business established by his father. He is engaged in the manufacture of horse collars of superior quality and is now conducting a most extensive business, finding a ready sale for his product in many foreign lands as well as the United States. Mr. E. J. Sharkey was born September 1, 1860, a son of Patrick Sharkey. The father was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, on the 17th of March, 1835, his parents being John and Katherine (Carroll) Sharkey. John Sharkey was a farmer by occupation and was connected with agricultural pursuits on the Emerald isle until about 1843, when he brought his family to America. He took up a donation land claim in Canada and began the development of a farm.
Patrick Sharkey was the third in a family of seven children and pursued his edu- cation in the schools of Ireland and also of Prince Edward island. He learned the trade of a harness and collar maker at Georgetown, which is situated on Prince Edward island, and when twenty-three years of age went to St. Johns, New Brunswick, where he worked at his trade for two years. He then removed to Grand Falls, where for four years he conducted a general store, after which he sold out and went to Boston and there enlisted in government service as a harness-maker and was sent to Chatta- nooga, Tennessee. After the war he returned to Baltimore, Maryland, there following his trade for eight months. His next removal took him to Wheeling, West Virginia, where for twenty years he continued to make his home, devoting his attention to the harness business. Being a great reader he learned much about the Pacific coast and making a trip here in 1883 he was so well pleased with the country that he returned to the east, disposed of his business there and again came to the northwest.' Settling at Portland he established a harness and collar factory on a small scale on Union avenue, between Washington and Alder streets. This was the first collar factory in Portland. As opportunity offered he increased the business and later removed to Union avenue and Taylor street, where he continued to conduct the enterprise until his demise, which occurred on the 20th of August, 1902. Some time prior to his death he admitted his son, Edward J. Sharkey, to a partnership in the business. Patrick Sharkey always gave his political allegiance to the republican party and in religious faith he was a Catholic.
On the 4th of November, 1859, Patrick Sharkey was married to Miss Elizabeth McClement, a daughter of Patrick and Elizabeth (Miller) McClement. Mrs. Sharkey was born on the same day as her husband, the place of her birth, however, being in County Derry, Ireland. She came to the British province in America when four years of age, her parents locating on a farm near St. Johns, where their remaining days
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were passed, and in that locality she resided until her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Sharkey became the parents of nine children: Edward J., the firstborn, is the subject of this review; Josephine is the wife of Charles Sweeney, a locomotive engineer residing in Portland and they have three children, Irene, Grace and Edmund; Katherine is the wife of Frank Southard of Portland and they have five children, Harry, Helen, Catherine, Mildred and Elizabeth; Louise married John Casey of Portland, by whom she has four children, Margaret, Allen, Edward and Charles; John P., who is engaged in the real estate business in Portland, married Jennie Graham and they have four children, Graham, Clement, Ellis and Herman; Helen became the wife of Rudolph Zeller of Portland and they have become the parents of three children, Phillip, Rudolph and Marie; William T., who is connected with the collar factory, married Cecelia Cahill, by whom he has two children, Gertrude and Helen. Mr. Patrick Sharkey was one of the substantial business men of Portland and during the period of his residence in this city developed an enterprise of considerable proportions.
Edward J. Sharkey, the eldest in his father's family, obtained his education in the common schools of Wheeling, West Virginia, and after laying aside his textbooks assisted his father in the conduct of the business, first in Wheeling and later in Portland, becoming thoroughly familiar with every phase of its development. In 1903 the factory on Taylor street, Portland, was destroyed by fire and the plant was then removed to Union avenue at the corner of Oak street, where the business is still located. The work instituted by the father is now being carried forward by the son who has greatly enlarged the scope of the business, which now gives employment to thirty-five persons. The firm of P. Sharkey & Son is the only institution in the west which manufactures horse collars exclusively. The superiority of their product has secured for it a large sale and the trade has extended east of the Mississippi river, while they also do a large exporting business, shipping to Australia, the islands in the Pacific ocean, the South American countries and to the Orient. Mr. Sharkey gives careful oversight to every phase of the business and is constantly seeking to increase the efficiency of his plant, to improve in any way possible the quality of the product and to extend the trade of the company to new territory.
In 1886 Mr. E. J. Sharkey was united in marriage to Miss Frances Virginia Davis, a representative of an old family of Virginia of Welsh descent and they have become the parents of four children: George E. and Mary E. are twins. The former is now assistant manager of his father's business and is also acting as office manager, while the latter is the wife of Dr. P. T. Meaney, of Portland; Ralph L., the next of the family, is a prominent physician of Portland. Enlisting for service in the World war he was commissioned lieutenant and was aboard the U. S. S. Antilles when that vessel was sunk by a German submarine, floating for four hours upon a raft before rescued; William P., the youngest of the children, is now a medical student at the University of Oregon.
MALL & VON BORSTEL.
Among the leading real estate firms of Portland is numbered that of Mall & Von Borstel, whose activities have constituted potent factors in the development and improvement of the city. W. H. Mall, the senior member of the firm, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1864, a son of W. H. and Elizabeth (Curban) Mall, natives of Germany, who emigrated to the United States. The father engaged in business as a carriage manufacturer and his death occurred in Denver, Colorado, in 1871. Soon afterward the mother removed with her family of four children to Portland, where she subsequently married Herman C. Von Borstel, father of the junior member of the present firm of Mall & Von Borstel. In 1872 and 1873, when a small boy, W. H. Mall sold flowers in the theaters of Denver and in 1874 removed with the family to southern California, where he also engaged in selling flowers and notions, thus contributing to the support of the family. Returning to Portland in 1879, he engaged in selling cigars, fruit, etc., on the Stark street ferryboats which were used to transport passengers across the Willamette river before the construction of a bridge. Subsequently he estab- lished a fruit store in East Portland and this he later sold, in 1889 opening a real estate business which he has since conducted, handling chiefly industrial properties. He is a member of the realty board, the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club and Auld Lang Syne Society.
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Herman Von Borstel, the junior partner, is a native of this city, born in 1880. His father, who was a native of Germany, emigrated to the United States and in the early '70s became a resident of Portland, where he engaged in the real estate business, in which he won a substantial measure of prosperity. After his graduation from high school the son pursued a course in a business college and on entering the industrial world engaged in the real estate business, in which he has since successfully continued. He formed a partnership with W. H. Mall under the firm style of Mall & Von Borstel and they are numbered among the leading real estate firms of the city. They have negotiated many important realty transfers and are thoroughly conversant concerning property values in this city.
Mr. Von Borstel served as president of the Portland realty board in 1919 and was a member of the consolidation committee appointed by the governor of Oregon. He is very active in the club life of the city and in Masonry has attained the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite Consistory. He is also a prominent member of the Shrine and during the recent convention of that branch of the order held in Portland was chairman of the entertainment committee. The members of the firm are numbered among the city's most prominent and progressive business men and through their activities are doing much to promote the improvement and upbuilding of Portland, where they are widely and favorably known.
O. W. HOSFORD.
O. W. Hosford, who is at the head of the Hosford Transportation Company of Portland, was born in Vancouver, Clarke county, Washigton, February 27, 1859. His father, Chauncey Osborne Hosford was born amid the Catskill mountains in the state of New York in 1821 and made an overland trip by ox team to Forest Grove, Oregon, in 1845. Through the winter following his arrival he taught school in Salem, Oregon, and in 1847 he went to California, in which state he was united in marriage to Miss Asenath Glover. While a resident of California he joined the ministry and returned to the Clatsop plains in Oregon, where he engaged in preaching and became a circuit rider. When he first arrived in Portland in 1847, there were only thirteen houses in the village, all of which were built of logs. The present site of the city was then comprised within three homestead claims. After residing for some time in Portland, Rev. Hosford went to Vancouver, Washington, and there in 1859 built the first Metho- dist church, of which he became the pastor. He later returned to Oregon and while devoting his life to the ministry he also entered upon mercantile pursuits and was thus connected with commercial interests for six years. At one time he owned all of the land which now comprises the reservoirs at Mount Tabor, Portland, and he passed away on Mount Tabor in 1913. His wife's death also occurred there when she was sixty-nine years of age. An uncle of O. W. Hosford of this review was Frank Glover, who crossed the plains to California in the same train as that of the famous Downer party, most of whom perished at Downer Lake, in the heart of the Sierras, in the deep snow. It is said that this ill fated party drew lots to see who should be sacrificed to provide food for those who remained, and Mr. Glover was among those sent back with the rescue party who succored the survivors.
O. W. Hosford pursued his education in the public schools of Mount Tabor and at the age of twenty-eight years took up steamboating on the Willamette and Columbia rivers and became half owner of the steamboat Lucy Mason, which plied between Port- land and Woodland in Cowlitz county, on the Lewis river. It was in the fall of 1887 that he began steamboating, his company being known as the Lewis River Transporta- tion Company. With this enterprise he was connected until 1892, when he sold out and purchased the business of the Washougal and La Camas Transportation Company, owners of the steamer lone. He then operated this steamer for sixteen years, in which time he received a master's license in 1892. In 1906 he disposed of his interests in the navigation line and established the Hosford Transportation Company and entered the towing business in connection with his sons, O. J., who is the secretary and treas- urer of the company, and L. C., who is assistant manager, while Mr. Hosford is the president. The company engages in towing logs for the various sawmills along the Willamette and in this connection has developed a business of substantial proportions.
In 1883 Mr. Hosford was united in marriage to Miss Bertha M. Baker, a native of Chicago, Illinois, whose parents came to Portland in the late '70s. Their son, L. C.
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Hosford, wedded Marion Kelly, of Illinois, while the elder son, O. J. Hosford, wedded Frances Kleggitt a daughter of an early pioneer.
Mr. Hosford has long heen greatly interested in politics and gives his support to the republican party. He was elected to the state legislature for the term of 1919 and 1920 and in the fall of the latter year was reelected. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is one of the oldest representatives of the order in Portland. He has also taken high degrees in Masonry and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. His entire life has been passed in the northwest and since attaining adult age he has taken advantage of the business opportunities here offered and has not only built up a large business in connection with the transportation company but has also become the owner of valuable city and farm lands. For more than sixty years he has been a witness of the growth and progress of the northwest as the country has emerged from pioneer conditions and taken on all of the advan- tages of the older east. He rejoices in what has been accomplished and well may he be proud of Oregon's record for its broad and fertile valleys have been carefully culti- vated, its splendid timbered regions have yielded many a fortune and all of its natural resources have been developed, leading to steady industrial and commercial progress, resulting in the building of a great empire west of the Rockies. Mr. Hosford has always been thoroughly imbued with the spirit of determination and of enterprise that charac- terizes the Pacific coast country and thus he has advanced step by step to the goal of success in all of his business endeavors.
JAMES S. COOPER.
James S. Cooper, who is now living retired at Independence, devoting his attention to the supervision of his extensive property interests, was for a considerable period prominently identified with financial affairs in Polk county, acquiring thereby a sub- stantial competence which now enables him to rest from further labor. He is a man of high personal standing, of marked business integrity and ability, and is regarded as one of the most substantial and valued citizens of his community.
Mr. Cooper was born in Lawrence county, Missouri, January 9, 1841, and is a son of E. E. and Nancy (Wann) Cooper, natives of Kentucky. The father was a Baptist minister and a son of Henry Cooper, who also engaged in preaching the gospel. The family has ever heen noted for its loyalty and patriotism and Frederick Cooper, the great-grandfather of James S. Cooper of this review, enlisted in 1777, when but seventeen years of age, as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, defending American interests at York Pennsylvania, under command of Captain Lart. His grandson, E. E. Cooper, removed to Missouri in 1839, taking up a homestead on Rock Prairie, near the present site of Halltown, in Lawrence county. This he cleared and developed, also continuing his ministerial labors, and remained a resident of the state until 1863, when with ox team and wagon he crossed the plains to Oregon, settling on a farm in Spring valley, Polk county. There he again engaged in farming and in preaching the gospel until 1876, when he removed to Salem, where he resided for two years and then took up his abode upon a farm in West Salem. He there passed away on the 12th of August, 1880, and the mother's demise occurred at Independence, May 30, 1891. They reared a family of twelve children, nine of whom were born in Missouri.
Their son, James S. Cooper, was reared and educated in Missouri, pursuing his studies in one of the pioneer log schoolhouses. In 1860, when a young man of nineteen years, he crossed the plains to California, where he engaged in the teaming business, residing in that state for a period of four years, during which time he made thirteen trips across the Sierras to Virginia City, Nevada. In February, 1864, he started for Oregon by the overland route, reaching Spring valley, Polk county, on the 19th of March. There for a short time he conducted a small dairy and then made his way to Marion county, where in six months he made five hundred dollars by cutting wood, and was thus enabled to pursue a course of study in McMinnville College. He subsequently purchased land in Polk county and for two years was active in its opera- tion. He then sold the property and went to eastern Oregon, where he remained for two years, or until 1873, when he returned to Polk county and bought a farm west of Salem, which he continued to operate for two years and then sold. In 1875 he established a livery and stage business in Monmouth, of which he remained the proprietor until 1878, when he removed to Independence and here engaged in a similar enterprise for
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two years. The next five years were devoted to the conduct of a brokerage business and in 1885 he opened a private bank, which he operated until 1889, when he became the organizer of the First National Bank of Independence, of which he was made president. In 1900 Mr. Cooper sold his interest in the bank and has since devoted his attention to the supervision of his extensive property interests, having made judicious investments in city and farm realty. He is the owner of several business blocks in the city which were erected by him and he also has extensive timber inter- ests in the state. He likewise owns two valuable farms, one of two hundred and thirty- eight acres and the other comprising seven hundred and twelve acres, and for the past thirty years he has engaged in hop raising on an extensive scale. His initiative spirit and notable ability have carried him into important relations and through his activi- ties he has contributed in substantial measure to the development and upbuilding of his section of the state.
Mr. Cooper has been married twice. On the 7th of January, 1869, he wedded Miss Frances O. Graves and they became the parents of four children: Estelle M. became the wife of C. E. Ireland on the 5th of October, 1898, and they reside in Portland; Dora Edith married Major G. M. Parker, Jr., of the Thirty-third United States Infantry, and they are now residing in Panama; Ella Pearl was married on the 6th of June, 1904, to W. D. Moreland, a veteran of the World war. He went overseas as a captain and for gallant and meritorious service on the field of battle was promoted to the rank of major; Clarence T. was born June 30, 1879, and passed away in October of the' same year. The wife and mother died in August, 1879, and in March, 1883, Mr. Cooper was united in marriage to Mrs. Jennie McNeal Logan, by whom he has four children: Mabel is the wife of George M. Williams and they reside in Centralia, Washington; Frances, married John R. Krause and they make their home at Aurora, Oregon; James Shelby, Jr., born March 3, 1888, is an accountant with the Oregon Steel & Iron Company in Portland. He is also a veteran of the World war, enlisting on the 12th of May, 1917. He went overseas on the 1st of March, 1918, as second lieutenant in the Motor Transport Corps and returned with the rank of captain, his distinguished service winning for him merited promotion. He received his discharge on the 24th of October, 1919. Gen- evieve is at home with her parents.
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