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Mr. Kratz has never failed to respond to every call of his fellow citizens and has served for many years as a member of the city council and as mayor of the city. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen, the Odd Fellows and the United Artisans. He has filled all the offices of the Odd Fellows and has been a member of the grand lodge. He is now the master artisan of the United Artisans.
Mr. Kratz was married in 1901 to Miss Maude A. Bryant, a member of the pioneer family who established the town of Clatskanie, which was at one time known as Bryantville. Members of the Bryant family were among the early settlers in Oregon. They were represented in New York prior to the Revolutionary war and later their successors pioneered in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Kratz have one daughter, Helen
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Katharine, who is a freshman in the University of Washington. She is a gifted musician, who was trained in St. Mary's Institute in Portland, Oregon. Their home on a commanding eminence, is one of the finest in Clatskanie and here their friends are always welcome. Mr. Kratz is president of the Chamber of Commerce, which organization is doing much for the upbuilding of Clatskanie and the surrounding country.
LUDWIG ALFRED LARSEN.
Norway has given to Astoria many of her most active citizens, among them being Ludwig Alfred Larsen, who has been a resident of that city since 1889, In the thirty-two years of his residence in Clatsop county he has won for himself many friends. He is a son of Andrew and Caroline (Olsen) Larsen and was born in Nor- way in 1864.
Ludwig Alfred Larsen received his education in his native country and in 1886 came to the United States, spending the first three years of his life in St. Paul, Minne- sota, where he engaged in business as a painter and decorator. In 1889 he determined to locate on the Pacific coast and settled in Astoria, where he went into the painting and decorating business on his own account. In 1908 he established his present busi- ness as real estate and insurance broker and steamship agent, in addition to his painting and decorating. Mr. Larsen represents such standard insurance companies as the London Assurance Company, the Home Insurance Company, the Niagara of New York, the Alliance of Philadelphia, and the New Jersey. He is agent of such steamship lines as the Cunard, Anchor, White Star, Norwegian-American and Scan- dinavian-American. As agent of the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York he can and does furnish bonds for any amount.
In 1890 Mr. Larsen was married to Miss Albertina Johanas, a native of Norway who had been his sweetheart in his boyhood days. Three children have been born to this union: Annie Florence, a talented musician, who is organist at one of Astoria's leading playhouses; Gearhart Andrew, engaged in business in Seattle, Washington; and Nellie Caroline, at home.
In politics Mr. Larsen is a republican but he is in no way a partisan. His fra- ternal affiliations are with the Knights of Pythias, the Sons of Norway and the United Artisans and he has held offices in all of them. Mrs. Larsen is a member of the Daughters of Norway, of which organization she is president and she has been a member of the Grand Lodge. She is a singer of note and is prominent in the social circles of the city. Mr. Larsen is likewise a talented musician and was one of the organizers of the Norwegian Singing Society and for many years was its leader. Re- cently he was presented with a handsome gold watch from the members of the society, on which is inscribed. "As an appreciation of your valned services as a leader." For many years he has been organist of the Norwegian Lutheran church, of which he and his family are consistent members. Mr. Larsen is actively interested in the civic affairs of the community and to that end is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and other like organizations.
MARK WILSON GILL.
Mark Wilson Gill, a well known business man of Portland, where he conducted activities for a number of years as secretary and treasurer of the J. K. Gill Company, was born in August, 1867, in Salem, Oregon, his parents being Joseph K. and Frances (Wilson) Gill. The latter was a daughter of Dr. Joseph Wilson whose marriage to Miss Chloe Clark was the first wedding of Americans celebrated north of the Columbia river. In 1870 Joseph K. Gill established a book store in Portland under his own name and the business has since been continued under the style of J. K. Gill & Company.
Mark W. Gill obtained his education in the schools of Portland and as a student in Bishop Scott's Academy. He also prepared for college in Wilbraham Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and afterward pursued his collegiate course in the Wes- Jeyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, from which he was graduated as a mem- ber of the class of 1889. Thus liberally educated he became well qualified for life's
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practical and responsible duties and upon his return to Portland became associated with the business established by his father, being elected to the position of secretary and treasurer of the J. K. Gill Company, with which he was thus associated until his life's labors were ended in death. The store has always been one of the finest estab- lishments of the kind in Portland and Mr. Gill of this review was active in main- taining the high standards established by his father. He displayed a most progres- sive spirit in all of his undertakings and ever adhered to the highest commercial ethics in the conduct of his business.
In 1894 Mr. Gill was united in marriage to Miss Susie Moreland, a daughter of Judge J. C. and Abbie (Kline) Moreland, the former a most distinguished citizen and jurist of Oregon. To Mr. and Mrs. Gill were born two children: Mary Moreland, now a student at Mills College in California; and Mark Moreland, who is attending school in Portland.
Mr. Gill of this review was named for his two grandfathers and he gave one of these names to his own son. He was the firstborn child and only son of his parents and his entire boyhood save for the period of his school and college days and also his manhood were spent in Portland. His academic studies were pursued in Wilbra- ham Academy, which was the alma mater of both his father and mother and thus the family standards were maintained. The name of Gill has ever been a synonym for progressiveness and for those things which are of cultural value in the life of the individual and the community. Mr. Gill of this review possessed a fine tenor voice and in his college days was a member of the famous Glee Club of Wesleyan Uni- versity. He also sang in the Boyer Club, the predecessor of the Apollo Club, and in the choirs of Calvary and Grace churches. He was one of the earliest members of the Multnomah Club and in his youth and early manhood was always a social favorite, a position which he retained throughout his entire life. His unfeigned cordiality, his kindly spirit and his genial manner made for popularity wherever he was known. His interest was always in those things which have real value in life and his example is one well worthy of emulation. He passed away May 22, 1918, and it will be long ere his name is forgotten, as his memory is cherished by those who were his associates.
CHRISTIAN SCHUEBEL.
In the field of political and legal activity Christian Schuebel has won distinction and today is numbered among the leading, influential and honored citizens of Oregon City, Clackamas county. As a young man he possessed the enterprising spirit of the west and overcoming all obstacles by earnest effort he steadily worked his way upward until, having long since left the ranks of the many, he today stands among the suc- cessful few. Mr. Schuebel was born at Ashland, Pennsylvania, in September, 1866, a son of Robert and Rosamonda (Hornshuul) Schuebel, people of prominence in their community.
The early education of Mr. Schuebel was very limited, he having attended the graded schools for a period of twenty-six days, after a year or so taking another course of six weeks and at the age of fifteen years attending school for six months. When but twelve years of age he worked in a coal mine but in 1878, being fired with the ambition which has since brought him to the front, he left his native state and removed to Oregon, settling in Oregon City. He worked for some time on a farm and from 1887 to 1890 was employed at a logging camp. Ever desirous of increasing his education he devoted his spare time to studying. In 1890, leaving the logging camp, he took work in the Oregon Woolen Mills and here remained for three and one-half years. In 1894 he secured work at the mill of the Crown-Willamette Pulp and Paper Company and besides his work there he took a correspondence course from the Sprague Correspondence school and traveled to Portland and took up the study of law at the night sessions of the law department of the University of Oregon. As the result of his close application he was, in 1897, admitted to the practice of law by the supreme court and leaving the paper mill, where he had risen to the position of foreman, he started to practice. Since that year he has served four years as a member of the city council, for six years has been city attorney of Oregon City and for four years deputy district attorney. As a man of public service his ability was recognized and he rep- resented Clackamas county in the state legislature in the sessions of 1913-1915 and 1919. Politically, as well as legally, Mr. Schuebel's success is indisputable. Some
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of the legislation which he framed and passed was the bill to tax the state water power, the law regulating hours of labor in mills and factories, the general fund bill, which has saved the state ten thousand dollars in interest annually and the state board of conciliation and arbitration law. He also prepared the Foreign Corporation License Fee law, which adds nearly one hundred thousand dollars to the general fund each year and the amendment to the Inheritance Tax law which has added four hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars to the general fund annually. These are but a few of the many acts introduced by Mr. Schuebel.
Sharing in his success and always cooperating with him and encouraging him is his wife, formerly Miss Agnes Beattie, to whom he was married in 1892. Her par- ents were pioneers of Illinois and from them she has inherited the strength, hardihood and energy which has made her a fitting helpmate for Mr. Schuebel. Mr. and Mrs. Schuebel have been blessed with a fine family of four daughters. The eldest daughter is now Mrs. Lee Bequcaith, wife of one of Portland's best known dentists. Roberta, the second daughter, is a graduate of the University of Oregon and is now a law student at the law department of the State University. This young woman in her junior year won the silver cup for scholarship; Agnes Clyde, another daughter, is a junior at the University of Oregon; and the last daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, is a senior in the Oregon City high school.
Aside from his political and legal interests Mr. Schuebel has taken much interest in various fraternal organizations and as a member of the Odd Fellows has filled every chair. He is also a member of the Woodmen of the World and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Mr. Schuebel is a representative of our best type of manhood and chivalry. By perseverence, determination and honorable effort he has overthrown the obstacles which barred his path to success and has reached the goal of prosperity and his genius, broad mind and public spirit bave made him a director of public thought and action.
RODNEY L. GLISAN.
Many direct and tangible forces in the development and upbuilding of Portland and the maintenance of its high civic standards are traceable to the efforts of Rodney L. Glisan, who ranks with the able attorneys of the city and with those men whose civic consciousness has resulted in effective work for upbuilding and progress in city and state. Portland has always been his home, and in contradistinction to the old adage that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, Rodney L. Glisan is classed with the valued and prominent residents of the Rose City. There are many here yet who remember the period of his childhood and, thinking back over the years, can visualize him as a schoolboy, attending the Bishop Scott Academy. He was born April 3, 1869, his parents being Dr. Rodney and Elizabeth R. (Couch) Glisan, the former a leading member of the medical profession in Portland for many years, while the latter was a daughter of Captain John H. Couch, who became one of the founders of Portland, arriving in Oregon in the period of pioneer development. It was in 1880 that Rodney L. Glisan was enrolled as a student in the Bishop Scott Academy, which he attended for two years. He then went abroad for further study and entered the Ecole Protestante of Paris, France, which he attended through the scholastic year. With his return to America he became a student in the Hopkins grammar school of New Haven, Connecticut, there pursuing his studies until 1886, when he matriculated in Yale University, entering upon a four years' classical course, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1890. His law studies were pursued in the University of Oregon from 1890 until 1892 and after there winning the LL. B. degree he continued his preparation for the bar in the law department of Columbia University in New York city, where he gained the Master of Arts degree. He was admitted to practice as a member of the Oregon bar in 1892 and has since been active in his profession, devoting his atten- tion largely to the law of real property and to the management of estates, several being now under his supervision. He has also become interested in business enter- prises which feature in the city's development and upbuilding as well as being a source of substantial revenue to the individual stockholder.
Along various lines of usefulness Mr. Glisan has directed his efforts. In 1900 he became a member of the city council of Portland and during the succeeding year was its president. He was appointed a member of the executive board and thus served
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from 1903 until 1905 during the mayoralty of George H. Williams. He was on the street committee of the council and executive board and took a deep interest in the subject of street paving, visiting several cities on inspection tours. In 1901 he became a member of the State legislature and was also a member of the charter commission which formulated the city charter of Portland. In January, 1910, he became a member of the board of trustees of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and has done effective work for public benefit through that organization. He has always voted with the republican party and has taken a progressive stand upon many vital political questions.
Mr. Glisan's active interest in athletics, too, has been manifest in many ways. He was a member of the first football team of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, of which he is a life member and of which he was at one time president. He has rowed in several association regattas and was president of the Portland Rowing Club, of which he is also a life member. He belongs to the University Club, is a life mem- ber of the Press Club, has membership in the Oregon Civic League, the Chamber of Commerce, the Portland Realty Board and is as well a member of the Mazamas Club, a mountain-climbing organization. He likewise has held membership in the Sierra Club and the Canadian Alpine Club, and it has been said of him: "He has always con- tended that the Pacific coast offers an unrivaled field of wonderful scenery and has for fifteen years spent the summer months in mountain climbing and tramping along the mountain ranges and coast. He has tramped the Oregon and California coast line from the Columbia river to the bay at San Francisco and has ascended nearly all of the prominent snow peaks through this territory." Recognizing the value of recrea- tion, pleasure seeking, nevertheless, has been only one feature of his life. He has at all times recognized his responsibilities and obligations to his fellowmen and has
labored effectively and earnestly for moral progress. He is now a senior warden in the Trinity Episcopal church, is a trustee of the Good Samaritan Hospital and is serving on its executive board. The call of need always finds ready response in him and it has been by reason of his recogniton of all life's duties, opportunities and responsibili- ties that he has ever enjoyed a high place in professional, social and church circles, making his life one of constantly expanding interest, activity and usefulness. When America entered the World war he was again alert to every duty, participating in all the bond drives and the Red Cross drives and serving on the legal advisory board.
JAMES C. HENRY.
James C. Henry, engaged in the undertaking business at La Grande, Union county, was born at Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1849, a son of Charles and Lydia (Reed) Henry.
The boyhood of James C. Henry was spent in the place of his birth. At the age of fourteen years he enlisted in the Union army, serving in Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-fourth Regiment under Captain Abner H. Brown, for three years and three months, being honorably discharged at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After the war he removed to Jonesville, Michigan, with his parents. Later he went to Indiana and located at South Bend, where he engaged in carpenter work for some time and was also associated with the Singer Sewing Machine Company and other well known firms. In 1876, however, he came west and located at La Grande. He there resumed his carpenter work, in which he continued for one year, then accepted a position as carpenter at the Camp Carson mines for one year and the following year engaged in his trade at La Grande. Being offered a clerkship in the W. J. Snodgrass Dry Goods and General Store at La Grande, Mr. Henry gave up his trade, and for fourteen years continued in that connection. In 1892 he decided to enter into business on his own account and established a furniture and undertaking store, in which venture he achieved a great amount of success. In 1916, however, he sold his furniture interest to a Mr. Carr, but he is still active in the conduct of his undertaking business. This business is located at 1505 Fourth street and is one of the best of its kind in eastern Oregon.
In 1870 occurred the marriage of Mr. Henry and Miss Anna E. Tutt, daughter of Robert Tutt, and a native of Virginia, her birth having occurred near Culpeper. One child was born to this union: Bessie, who is deceased.
Since age conferred upon Mr. Henry the right of franchise he has been a stanch supporter of the republican party, in the interests of which he has always taken an
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active part. From 1906 to 1915 he served as county judge, has been mayor of the city and a member of the city council. He has always taken a keen interest in the furtherance of any movement which he deemed of value to the development and im- provement of the community, for the duties of citizenship do not rest lightly upon his shoulders. Fraternally he is also prominent, having membership in the Masons, in which order he is a Knights Templar and a Shriner; he also belongs to the Elks, the Moose, and the Odd Fellows. During the years of his residence in La Grande Mr. Henry has made many friends, who appreciate his true personal worth and his many sterling traits of character. He has won the goodwill and confidence of all with whom he has come into contact and is widely recognized as a representative citizen of La Grande and Union county.
CAPTAIN SHERMAN V. SHORT.
Captain Sherman V. Short, who for many years was identified with navigation interests in the northwest, thus winning the title by which he was always known, was born in Butteville, Oregon, in 1856, and pursued his education in the schools of his native state. When a youth of eighteen years, or in 1874, he became identified with navigation interests, serving on the steamer Ohio with Captain Scott. He was after- ward deck hand on the Fannie Patton, the City of Salem, the Willamette Chief and the Occident. In 1877 he was made mate of the Salem, on which he sailed for about two years. Subsequently he filled similar positions on the City of Quincy and the Willamette Chief. He next ran as pilot on the Occident, the S. T. Church and the Bonanza. He left the last named to take command of the A. A. McCully, which he handled for about a year and then had charge of the Orient, which he commanded for three years in the Corvallis trade. He afterward ran the Occident on the same route for a year, at the expiration of which period he left the employ of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company and was captain on the Oregon Pacific steamer, Three Sisters, for a few months, subsequently commanding the N. S. Bentley for the same company. He served as master on the William M. Hoag and also on the Three Sisters until September, 1891, when he entered the employ of The Dalles, Portland & Astoria Navigation Company, running out of Portland on different steamers. Thus for many years Captain Short of this review was associated with the navigation interests of the northwest.
Captain Short was a brother of Captain W. P. Short and of the late Captain Marshall Scott Short, who was accidentally killed at Astoria a few years ago. In every respect Captain Sherman V. Short was a practical steamboat man. He knew every part of his boat by reason of his extended service. Steadily he worked his way upward until his ability in steamboat matters was testified to in his promotion to the command of vessels. He continued to sail the waters of the northwest until he passed away, June 26, 1915. For a number of years before his death he was a member of the Columbia River Pilots.
Captain Short was married in 1886 to Miss Allie Mae Ray, and they have a son, Bertram Clyde Short, who is a resident of Portland.
Captain Short's life had brought him into contact with many people who knew him as a genial gentleman of thorough reliability and sterling worth.
HON. CLARENCE J. EDWARDS.
In the field of political life and commercial activity Hon. Clarence J. Edwards has won distinction and today is numbered among the leading, influential and honored citizens of Tillamook City. A native of Indiana, he was born in that state in 1871, the son of Jesse and Mary (Kemp) Edwards. The Edwards family is of English origin, three brothers of that family having come to this country from Wales prior to the Revolutionary war. They separated, however, upon reaching this country and located in New York, Pennsylvania and North Carolina respectively. It is from the North Carolina branch of the family that Senator Edwards is descended. His grandfather settled in Indiana in 1830 and there the father was born. In 1880. Jesse Edwards brought his family to Oregon and purchased a farm, upon which a portion
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of the town of Newberg is now located. He laid out the original site of Newberg and is still residing there on the land on which he settled many years ago. He is widely known throughout the community where he has not only witnessed a most wonder- ful transformation but has largely aided in the labors which have transformed the wild tract into a splendid commonwealth. Now, in his declining years, he is living retired enjoying a well earned rest, which is the merited reward of a long and hon- orable business career.
Iu the pursuit of an education Clarence J. Edwards attended the graded schools of Newberg and later enrolled in Pacific College, being a member of the first graduat. ing class of that institution in 1893, which class boasted of but two members, the other being Professor A. C. Stambrough, now superintendent of schools at Newberg. Fol- lowing his graduation Mr. Edwards took a course in the University of Ohio and upon its completion associated with his father in the manufacture of brick. For eight years he was active in that connection and then, entering the business world on his own account, promoted and built the Yamhill Light & Power plant, which he man- aged for a period of thirteen years. His ability and intelligently directed effort were responsible for the plant's continued success and although it had originally been built for the purpose of furnishing light and power to Newberg only, he so increased the facilities as to give service to nine towns in Yamhill and Washington counties. In 1913 Senator Edwards disposed of his interest in the company and located in Tilla- mook City, purchasing an interest in the Coast Power Company, of which he became president and manager. For seven years he has been associated with that company in those dual capacities and his keen executive ability has resulted in the enlarging of the plant to cover all the coast towns and industries in this section. Aside from this business he has become well known in financial circles of Tillamook City as vice president of the First National Bank.
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