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On the 10th of October, 1914, Mr. Evans was united in marriage to Miss Eliza- beth Holcomb of this city and they reside in their attractive modern home at No. 950 Kirby street. . He is a member of the National Association of Photographers and of the Pacific Northwest Photographers Association, of which he was secretary in 1918 while in 1919 he was elected to the office of president, thus indicating his high stand- ing in his chosen line of work. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Progressive Business Men's Club and the Ad Club and fraternally is identified with the Masons and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is a man of pleas- ing personality who accords all visitors courteous treatment and is constantly striving to bring his work to a higher artistic standard. As a consequence his studio is a most popular one and he enjoys a large and constantly increasing patronage. He is well known in business circles of the city and his many admirable qualities have won for him the esteem and regard of a large circle of friends.
HERBERT A. COOKE.
One of the rising young attorneys of Portland is Herhert A. Cooke, who is prac- ticing his profession in partnership with Major Frank Sever, an able lawyer of this city and the list of their clients is an extensive and representative one. A native son of Oregon, Mr. Cooke's entire life has been passed within the borders of the state. He was born on the 3d of June, 1889, of the marriage of A. C. and Valeska (Yost) Cooke, the former of whom was horn in Clackamas county, Oregon, on the 5th of February, 1863. His parents, William W. and Martha (Young) Cooke, emigrated from Missouri to Oregon in 1852, casting in their lot with the earliest settlers of the state. They had a family of eight children, of whom A. C. was the seventh in order of birth and his education was acquired in the old Central school of Portland. For thirteen years he worked as an upholsterer in the employ of J. W. Birmingham and in 1893 he became identified with the Ira F. Powers Manufacturing Company, with which he has since continued, serving as secretary of the firm from the time of its
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incorporation as the Ira F. Powers Furniture Company in 1903. This is one of the oldest and most reliable commercial enterprises in Portland and the trade has stead- ily increased from year to year until it has reached extensive proportions, eighty people now being employed in the conduct of the enterprise, while the warehouse affords a floor space of one hundred and thirty thousand feet. In 1886 Mr. Cooke was united in marriage to Miss Valeska Yost, a daughter of Professor R. Yost, a talented musician and they became the parents of three children: Herbert A., of this review; Robert R., tire expert for the Pacific States Rubber Company of Portland; and Alfred E., who is attending school. In his political views Mr. A. C. Cooke is a republican and fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of the World. He is also a mem- ber of the Chamber of Commerce and does all in his power to promote the upbuilding and expansion of his city along commercial lines.
After his graduation from high school Herbert A. Cooke pursued a law course in the University of Oregon and on the 4th of June, 1912, was admitted to the bar. He at once engaged in professional work and for a time was associated in practice with Mendenhall Brothers but since 1916 has been a partner of Major Frank Sever. Their offices are located in the Dekum building and theirs is a large and constantly increas- ing patronage. The partners are progressive, energetic young men who are rapidly forging to the front in their profession. Mr. Cooke is an earnest and discriminating student, thoroughly familiar with the principles of jurisprudence and in the trial of intricate cases he displays marked ability. He has ever conformed his practice to the highest ethical standards and is well qualified to take care of important litigation.
On the 31st of May, 1916, Mr. Cooke was united in marriage to Miss Edith Breed- love, a resident of this city and a daughter of Dennis Breedlove, of Bend, Oregon. The only child of this marriage is a son, Donald Alfred.
Mr. Cooke is a stanch republican in his political views, active in support of the principles and candidates of the party. He is a member of Delta Theta Phi, a legal fraternity, and is also identified with the Knights of Pythias and the Royal Arcanum. For three years he was connected with the Oregon National Guard as a member of Troop A of the Cavalry. He is making continuous progress in his profession and is a splendid representative of the western spirit of enterprise and energy that has been the chief factor in the rapid upbuilding and development of the Pacific coast country. He has never been content with the second best but is constantly striving to reach a higher level and his many sterling qualities have gained him an enviable position in the respect and regard of all who have been brought into contact with him.
RIGHT REV. A. HILLEBRAND, V. G. Prot. Apost. a. i. p.
One of the leading moral and religious forces of western Oregon is the Right Rev. A. Hillebrand, who has since coming to America been a powerful instrument in advancing the prosperity of the northwest. He is a native of Germany, born at Brilon, Westphalia, July 19, 1859, a son of A. and Catherine (Weber) Hillebrand.
The early education of Father Hillebrand was received in the elementary schools of his native land and after the usual course he attended the gymnasium, from which he was graduated in 1881. He matriculated at the University of Münster, where he studied philosophy, philology and theology and later became a student at the Ameri- can College In the University of Louvain, Belgium. On June 28, 1885, he was ordained to the priesthood at Louvain by the Right Rev. Aegidius Junger, bishop of Nisqually of the state of Washington, who was at that time in Belgium. When Bishop Junger returned to Oregon, Father Hillebrand accompanied him and was placed in charge of the missions in the eastern part of Oregon, then a district two hundred and fifty by three hundred miles in extent. For three strenuous years he lived the life of a pioneer missionary priest, traveling on horseback over this extensive region, then thinly populated. As a result of the zeal and capability displayed by Father Hillebrand in his work in this country, surrounded by many difficulties almost unknown at the present time, he was appointed, July 4, 1888, as pastor of St. John's parish, Oregon City. Here he remains and his efforts have been rewarded with a substantial measure of success. St. John's is today recognized as one of the best organized par- ishes in Oregon and under the able administration of Father Hillebrand it has been necessary during the past twenty years to enlarge the church to twice its original size, the latest addition having been made in 1908. A new parochial residence has
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been erected and in 1907, as a crowning feature of the educational system of the parish, the McLoughlin Institute was added. This institution, the outgrowth of St. John's parochial and high schools, is named in honor of Dr. John McLoughlin, who has been given the title of the "Father of Oregon," and whose remains rest beneath the St. John's church, which location has been set apart for a baptistry chapel, and is a monument to his memory. In the effort to preserve the old McLoughlin home of Oregon City as a memorial to the man who will long be remembered as one of the leading pioneers, Father Hillebrand has been a prominent worker.
The silver jubilee of the entrance of Father Hillebrand into the priesthood was celebrated June 28, 1910, and the following notice of the affair appeared in one of the local papers: "Rev. A. Hillebrand, pastor of St. John's, Oregon City, on Tuesday of this week, celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination to the priest- hood. Most Rev. Alexander Christie and a large number of the archdiocesan clergy were present at the jubilee services. Solemn high mass was celebrated at ten o'clock by the reverend jubilarian in the presence of a congregation which filled St. John's church to the doors. At one o'clock dinner was served to the visiting clergy and in the evening a public reception was held in McLoughlin hall, at which a great throng gathered. It was a joyful occasion for the people of Oregon City, both Catholic and non-Catholic, who turned out in great numbers to present their felicitations to Father Hillebrand, who has earned their affection and gratitude by twenty-two years of zealous labors in their community." Three years after this auspicious occasion, in 1913, Father Hillebrand was appointed vicar general of the archdiocese of Oregon City and still administers that office, and on April 7, 1920, by virtue of a brief from Pope Benedict XV, he was elevated to the post of prothonotary apostolic and installed in that high office officially June 28, 1920. This installation took place on the thirty- fifth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood and was performed by Archbishop Christie. This high ecclesiastical office carries with it the title of Monsignor. At the time of his appointment to this office he was the only one holding same west of Dubuque, Iowa. In the archdiocese he serves as diocesan consulter, dean, examiner of the clergy, censor of books and a member of the diocesan school board. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Catholic Knights of America.
The McLoughlin Institute has an enrollment of two hundred and fifty pupils, who are instructed by eight specially equipped teachers. Father Hillebrand is master of several languages and among the members of his flock not less than four languages are spoken. He has always been a deep and sincere student and his library embraces some five thousand volumes. His collection of scientific and historical works consists of books prepared in all languages and his theological collection is considered one of the finest on the coast. It is almost needless to say that during the time Father Hillebrand has been pastor of St. John's parish he has made hosts of friends, both within and without the church, for his kindly and helpful influence has been a con- stant incentive to a better life among his own people and he has won their highest esteem and devoted love.
ERNEST V. JENSEN.
A MAN WHO LOVES THE AMERICAN FLAG.
The man accounted the bravest citizen of Rome was he who did most love and best serve his country. In America service should command the highest appreciation because on the service of the citizen alone rests the destiny of the nation.
From times as far as we have been able to delve into the past, men have made for themselves ensigns which have always possessed a significance characteristic of the individual, tribe or nation. As nations developed and adopted flags, the banners represented in a composite and concrete significance the character of the governments they symbolize.
On the sensitive soul of Ernest V. Jensen the sight of the American flag on the high seas made a deep impression. Two-score years ago the Star Spangled Banner was not so common a sight in the ports of the world as in this day. Ernest's boyhood had been spent under the frowning walls of the old castle which for centuries has guarded the Cattegat, in whose grimy casements slumbers Old Holger Danske, founder of the Danish nation and upon whose ramparts walked the ghost of Hamlet's father.
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His parents were humble folk. Ernest Jensen's father, when a boy at the age of seven, had to work herding geese which after harvest picked up grain. And to keep time, for they had no clock, he had thirteen sticks, one long and twelve short, which with a string to make a circle he used as sundial or clock, putting the long stick in the ground and the first short stick where the shadow was, then divided the circle into twelve spaces for hours and when the shadow got to so many sticks he knew it was time to drive the geese home. His forefathers had fought under Christianity's banner, the cross of white on a field of red, and Ernest, though young, imbibed much of its symbolism. But the economic problem was grave. Even Denmark's poets sang sadly of the country as "A poor little land." America was discussed at almost every humble fireside as the Land of Opportunity .-
Ernest V. Jensen was born October 29, 1859, in Copenhagen, Denmark. When fourteen years of age he shipped as a sailor on board a Danish schooner bound for Norway and on the sea found the curriculum of the sailing masters included frequent and forceful applications of a rope end. At Grimstad, Norway, on an occasion when his flesh was smarting from a particularly severe application of the captain's rope he took leave without speech or ceremony and walked in shore at early morning, going all the way to Arendal, a distance of thirty-two miles, where he was lucky enough to obtain a berth on a bark, The Gleice, about to depart on her maiden voyage.
December, 1874, to New York. It was on his first voyage to New York that he heard the sailors discussing the American flag. Aboard the bark Bible reading was a daily service, which was no doubt responsible for Jensen's adopting a course of conduct not usually accredited to sailors. It was on this voyage to New York that Seaman Jensen first saw the American flag. Because of mishap a vessel sighted on the high seas was signaled and on approaching it proved to be a "Yankee" and he beheld with emotion the banner of stars and stripes. To him it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He beheld it with reverence and tears came to his eyes. To him it was something holy. Such was the character of the impression thought-association had made upon his soul. When the vessel continued its way he watched the flag until it sank beneath the horizon and during the still watches of succeeding nights the flag fluttered through his dreams.
Ernest Jensen made nine more voyages across the Atlantic. Just before leaving Denmark on one of his voyages Mr. Jensen promised an old professor that he would bring him back some corn, and he brought him four ears. He signed on the Gleance of Dundee, Gramsby, Good Friday, 1882. This was a steel-mast bark carrying rails to Buenos Aires for the railroad that was to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific in South America, the line from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso. The ship after rounding the Horn came up the west coast of the two Americas to Astoria, Oregon, October 4, 1882. Here he renounced the sea and came ashore to remain. This was not so easy a matter in those days as sailors were in demand and to keep from being shanghaied was a more difficult task than finding a landsman's job. He "shipped" with a farmer who sent him out to milk. The young "sea-farmer" was confident he could milk and cheerily cast anchor alongside Bossy. He had an idea he could milk but Bossy enter- tained positive ideas to the contrary. He had only just got nicely started when Bossy with one strong, broad sweep with her starboard foot aft sent him sprawling overboard amid a spray of milk. In the argument that followed in which the captain of the farm took a hand there was nothing said about honorable discharge, but was very definite otherwise.
Taking up his residence in Astoria he followed fishing until 1888, and on January 18, 1889, he went to The Dalles where he entered the employ of a mercantile company and it was there that his creative ability first began to manifest itself. Entering upon miniature work and window trimming he soon became proficient in the art and in 1889, prior to the destruction of the Maine, he had used the battleship as a model in a window display which won for him prominence from coast to coast. He has done window dressing and miniature work for the leading mercantile establishments in the Pacific northwest and in his chosen profession is recognized as an artist of superior skill and ability. While living in The Dalles, Mr. Jensen served seven and one-half years in the voluntary fire department and for this service he received a diploma.
In 1887, Mr. Jensen was married at The Dalles to Miss Mattie Foley, a grand- daughter of Dr. Foley, a prominent pioneer for whom Foley Springs was named, but his wedded life was destined to be short, Mrs. Jensen giving her life in presenting him with a daughter less than two years after marriage.
At The Dalles Jensen raised the funds to erect a fountain on one of the principal
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business corners of the town and his patriotism cost him his job. Among his most notable works may be mentioned the following: A working model of the Columbia river, for which he was awarded a gold medal in 1905. In this working model of the Columbia river exhibited at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905, for which he received the gold medal, for the first time small salmon were placed in captivity for six months. Through that model the fish commissioner, Mr. Webster, discovered and advocated to the United States fish department and the state of Wash- ington, that it was best to keep the small salmon until they were large enough to take care of themselves; which plan has been adopted by the state of Oregon at its salmon hatchery; a model sheep ranch showing the sheep, receiving a bronze medal in 1905; a shield made from grain grass and seed, winning him a bronze medal in 1905; a model reproduction of the Columbia river from the Pacific ocean to the Cascade locks, including the Columbia highway, for which he was awarded a silver medal at the Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915; an agricultural picture made of grains, grass and seed, which won for him the diploma honorable at the above named exposition; model of the fishing industry of the Columbia river executed for J. Lindenberger of Astoria, which in 1906 was awarded a gold medal at the exposition held in Milan, Italy; model of Multnomah falls, receiving for this a gold medal in 1907; model of the Oregon rural school, which was awarded a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. In 1915, the state of Oregon conferred upon him the diploma and in 1916 he received a gold medal from the Portland Rose Society. His model of Celilo Canal is a great work of 1917, comprising eleven pieces and weighing in all 3,000 pounds.
In 1918 he advocated the use of the Cascade locks for development of electric power. He went before the Astoria Chamber of Commerce and the Port Commissioners and was referred to the state legislature, after which he made the model of the country surrounding the Cascade locks, which model has been standing in the state house for the last two years.
His Christianity was very largely of his own interpretation and therefore distinctive. He was active in the young people's societies-the Y. M. C. A. and the Epworth League. He was a delegate from The Dalles to the first state convention of the. Epworth League held in the old Taylor street church in Portland. He was also delegate to the Pacific Coast Y. M. C. A. convention held in Seattle in 1885, when the waterfront was occupied by Indian tepees. His was a democratic Christianity and one for which he did not hesitate to fight. In those days The Dalles, as well as Astoria, was distinguished more for the number of saloons per hundred inhabitants than the number of churches per thousand. When the Salvation Army invaded Astoria it met a warm reception. The saloon forces felt that it was interfering with business and the Salvation Army hallelujahs, when the fight raged fiercest, might be heard from within gaol walls almost as often as without. The democracy of the Northlands was in Ernest Jensen's religion as well as in his social and political code and he promptly espoused the cause of the Salvation Army when the regulars came to the Y. M. C. A. and asked for volunteer reinforcements. It was a merry fight while it lasted, but in the end the little squad of persecuted salvationists won the right to carry their banner on the streets and to plant it at the very portals of any jag bazaar whose denizens they might deem most in need of their prayers. And now the saloon is among the dead things of yesteryear and the Salvation Army ranks higher in the esteem of the world than at any previous time. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias and is a member of Harding Republican Club and has membership in the Oregon Historical Society, Roosevelt Memorial Association, the Portland Rose Society and the American Rose Society. Mr. Jensen recently took up the work of photography, in which he has been unusually successful as an amateur, obtaining second prize at the state fair at Salem for his landscapes and first prize at the fair at Gresham on similar views-1920.
But through the years Ernest Jensen's soul has been wrapt in "Old Glory." He possesses one of the greatest collections of flags in this or any other country. When he makes a present, which is very frequently, it is an American flag. These presents have for a large part been to prominent men of the world who have visited Portland and the list includes Prince Axel of Denmark who came to Portland in 1918; and Sir John A. Macdonald, premier of Canada. The beautiful flag at the altar of Wau- coma Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Hood River was presented by Mr. Jensen. But he has one flag which is his particular pride and which he calls his historic banner. Beneath its folds many distinguished personages of foreign lands, men of prominence in the nation and most of the men of prominence in the state have spoken. This list numbers nearly two hundred. When Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt spoke
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at the Multnomah county fair at Gresham in 1919 and was told that his father had twice spoken from beneath that flag, he turned and reverently saluted the banner. To mention a few of the names will show its associations: Frank Goorden, governor of Idaho; Geo. E. Chamberlain, governor of Oregon; Senator Beveridge; President W. H. Taft; Senator F. Mulkey; Congressman N. J. Sinnott; Congressman C. N. McArthur, Senator Robert M. La Follette; Ex-Vice President of the United States, Chas. W. Fair- banks; Lieutenant General Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell; Hon. Oswald West, governor of Oregon; Gipsy Smith, evangelist; Hon. Mayor H. R. Albee; Charles Merle D'Aubigne of France; Lieutenant Davide Bosio of Palermo, Italy; Editor J. A. Macdonald, LL. D., Toronto, Canada; Senator James E. Watson; Rev. Billy Sunday; Hon. Governor Withy- combe of Oregon; Hon. Charles E. Hughes; Senator Charles L. McNary; E. D. Baldwin, secretary of State Central Committee; Henry D. Estabrook; Mayor George L. Baker; Hon. Governor Lister of Washington; Hon. Governor Alexander of Idaho; Ex-Congress- man Richmond P. Hobson of Merrimac fame; Bishop Matthew Simpson Hughes; Dr. Joshua Stansfield; Bishop Eben S. Johnson of darkest Africa; Lieutenant Bruno Roselle from the Italian front; Madame Angeline of Rome; Ella Flagg Young, of Chicago; Hon. S. Benson, of Portland; Rt. Rev. Bishop W. T. Sumner; October 15, 1918, Prince Axel of Denmark and his party; Lieutenant Commander F. W. Lamb of the Danish Navy; Commander Johannes Korbin of the Danish Navy; Lieutenant Commander Andreas Thiele, Danish Navy; Rear Admiral of the Royal Danish Navy; Captain Adolphus An- drews, U. S. Navy; Hon. Howard S. Candee; Vilhjalmur Stefansson, North Arctic Ex- plorer; Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
United States senators and congressmen, evangelists of national fame, etc. Could this banner but repeat the words spoken in its presence what a world of thought it could express! Little beams of memory of these occasions are cherished by Mr. Jensen and to him the flag speaks the thoughts of many men of many lands and many he is privileged and proud to call his personal friends. Is it strange that he should revere that flag? Until the day he shall journey west he will treasure it and it is his desire that it go with him to that narrow heritage of mortality, after which he has made provision that it shall become the property of the Oregon Historical Association.
Ernest V. Jensen continues making his models in miniature, usually a service .in development or public welfare; continues accumulating and presenting priceless flags with their symbolism; continues spinning a strand of modest and pleasing color into the thread of the Northlands entering the warp of the wonderful fabric of the Ameri- can nation-a strand for which no American need blush nor the king of Denmark apologize.
GEORGE G. RAE.
George G. Rae, who was long prominently identified with the lumber industry in the northwest and for many years made his home in Portland, there passed away on the 12th of February, 1918, in his seventy-fifth year. He was born in Scotland, July 11, 1843, a son of John and Isabelle Rae. He spent the period of his boyhood and youth in his native land and had reached the age of twenty-six years ere he severed home ties and came to the new world, leaving bonny Scotland in 1869. For a time he resided in San Francisco and then came to Portland, where he entered the employ of the Willa- mette Steam Mills, with which he was connected for fourteen years. Not long after entering the employ of this concern he was given charge of the yards as salesman. When at length he left the company he became one of the organizers of the Inman- Poulsen Lumber Company, of which he was made vice president. This company has the record of cutting more lumber in a two-year period than any other one-side mill in the world. Mr. Rae, as vice president of the company, was active in the manage- ment and control of the business, with which he was connected until 1906, when he retired. He had previously made various visits to Europe and in 1907 again crossed the water, spending considerable time in travel through Great Britain and on the continent.
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