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In 1899 Mr. Rice was united in marriage to Miss Blanche Autenrieth, a daughter of E. H. Autenrieth, a lawyer of California. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rice, Iris Aileen, a junior in the Roseburg high school. Mrs. Rice has many friends in Roseburg, who appreciate her true personal worth and she is widely known as an accomplished housewife and ideal mother.
The religious faith of the Rice family is that of the Episcopal church and Mr. Rice is fraternally identified with the Masons and the Woodmen of the World. He is a tireless worker, not only in his profession but in the broad field of community wel- fare. He was the first president of the Roseburg Commercial Club and was chairman of some of the war drives. He was chairman of the Red Cross War Relief Committee, was a Four-Minute man and took a prominent part in Red Cross work. Mr. Rice has won the confidence and goodwill of his colleagues and contemporaries of the bar and is classed among the foremost members of the legal profession in Douglas county.
EMIL JULIUS LAWRENZ.
Emil Julius Lawrenz is one of the most prosperous and enterprising business men in Sherwood. He is the owner and proprietor of the Garage and Ford Service Station which is located at First and Pine streets. This splendid structure was erected by Mr. Lawrenz on a lot 100x100 feet, is built of corrugated iron and cement and besides storage and salesroom has a repair shop that is fitted up with the latest appliances for repairs and service as well as a department devoted to Ford parts, accessories, and a full line of tires. His territory embraces about one third of the county and an evi- dence of the popularity of the cars which are used by the hundreds and on the farms are many dozens of satisfied owners of Fordson Tractors.
Mr. Lawrenz was born in Germany in 1882 and was brought to America in 1893 by his parents Harry and Bertha (Schiller) Lawrenz, who took up farming in Minne- sota. Emil had attended school in his native land and was not slow in picking up the American tongue for at fourteen years of age he started to clerk in a general mer- chandise store where he also learned a smattering of the Scandinavian tongues. In 1900 he decided to come west and made his way by easy stages to the Pacific coast, ending his travels at Portland where he obtained a job in a hardware store. In 1913 he went to Sherwood to visit an aunt who resided there and was so impressed with the town and its citizens that he decided to remain there. He invested his savings in a hardware store and since that time has risen to be one of the most popular business men in the town. In 1914 he became the agent of the Ford automobile for that section and enjoys the distinction of having been the first man to bring a carload of Ford cars into eastern Washington. In 1918 Mr. Lawrenz decided to devote all of his time to the automobile business, so he disposed of his hardware store and built the Garage and Ford Service Station which he now manages.
In 1913 Mr. Lawrenz was married to Minnie Kruger, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Kruger, respected pioneer farmers of Washington county. Mrs. Kruger is proud of the fact that she is a native daughter of the state. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrenz are the parents of two children: Mabel Louise and Emily Bertha. Mrs. Lawrenz is a splendid housewife and model mother and possesses scores of friends in Sherwood. Emil Lawrenz is regarded as a valuable asset to the community and has shown his appreciation of and his belief in American institutions upon every occasion. He has membership in the Masonic lodge of which he is secretary and he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is a republican.
During the World war when the sympathies of every man of German birth were being questioned Emil Lawrenz demonstrated in many tangible ways the fact that
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he was as much an American as any man born in the United States. His clean business methods and tested integrity have won him the respect of his community and of the business men of his industry throughout the state.
THURSTON PIERCE HACKLEMAN.
The life record of Thurston Pierce Hackleman covered a period of sixty-seven years and in his passing Albany lost a highly honored and respected resident, whose sterling traits of character, upright manhood and loyalty in citizenship had endeared him in large measure to his fellow townsmen. Mr. Hackleman was a native of this state, born in Albany on the 12th of October, 1852. He was a son of Abraham and Eleanor (Davis) Hackleman, both of whom were born in the year 1829. The father was a native of Indiana and in 1844 he crossed the plains to California, where he engaged in mining, in which connection he won a substantial measure of success. In 1847 he came to Oregon and took up land where the city of Albany now stands. He engaged in farm- ing and stock raising on a very extensive scale, acquiring large land holdings in eastern Oregon. He was the owner of three thousand acres in Crook county, Oregon, and he also dealt largely in horses, raising many thousands of heads and frequently selling one thousand horses in a single season. In 1850 he founded the town of Al- bany on seventy acres of his land and his name is inseparahly associated with the history of the development and upbuilding of his section of the state. He was In- strumental in the construction of the military wagon road across the Cascade moun- tains and for several terms he served as president and director of the road. He was also interested in the construction of the old Oregon Pacific Railroad and for four years served as one of its directors, and many of the greatest enterprises for the development of this section of the state owe their inception and successful accom- plishment to the efforts of Mr. Hackleman. He was likewise called to public office, serving as county commissioner of Linn county and also as a member of the city council of Albany, and was ever a most progressive and public-spirited citizen, his activities being at all times of a constructive nature. He was an energetic, sagacious and far-sighted business man whose lahors were a most potent force in bringing about much of modern-day progress and improvement. He passed away when seventy-five years of age and of him it could be truly said, "The world was better for his having lived in it."
Thurston P. Hackleman pursued his education in the public schools of his native city and later entered Albany College, becoming one of its first students. He subse- quently attended the normal school at Monmouth, Oregon, and then entered the law department of the State University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated with the LL. B. degree. He was thus thoroughly equipped for the practice of his profession when he opened an office in Owosso, Michigan, forming a partnership with Gilbert R. Lyon, with whom he was associated for a period of six years. He then returned to his native city and here successfully practiced his profession for many years, but owing to deafness was at length obliged to retire from the active work of the courts and subsequently devoted his attention to the supervision of his property interests, remaining a resident of Albany to the time of his death. He was a man of high intellectual attainments, a wide reader and a deep thinker, who found par- ticular interest in the perusal of the Congressional Record. He was a deep student of the social and economic problems of the country and ever kept thoroughly informed concerning affairs of national importance. For over forty years he had kept a daily record of the events in his life and this diary is greatly treasured by his family. He was an able lawyer, well informed in all branches of the law, and his ahility was manifest in the logic of his deductions and in the clearness of his reasoning.
In December, 1877, Mr. Hackleman was united in marriage to Miss Edith Lyon, who was horn at Ann Arbor, Michigan, a daughter of Gilbert R. and Delia C. (Collier) Lyon, the latter a native of Rochester, New York. Her father was graduated from the Rochester (N. Y.) University and also from the law department of the Univer- sity of Michigan, and he engaged in the practice of law at Owosso, Michigan, the remainder of his active life, there passing away in 1915. He was called to public office and was prominent in the affairs of his community, being highly esteemed and respected by all who knew him. His fraternal associations were with the Elks and the Masons. The mother survives and resides with her daughter, Mrs. Hackleman,
THURSTON P. HACKLEMAN
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having reached the advanced age of eighty-five years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Hackleman were six in number, namely: Jessie, who is the wife of R. Kuhn and resides at Lebanon, Oregon; Rollin G. of Albany; Edith, the wife of G. A. Elkins of Eugene, Oregon; Berenice, who married T. M. Gilchrist and is residing in Albany; Thurston, who died November 9, 1900, at the age of nineteen years; and Pauline, who died in 1890, when but four years of age.
Fraternally Mr. Hackleman was identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in religious faith he was a Baptist, actively and helpfully interested in the work of the church, whose teachings he ever followed in his daily life. In his political views he was a democrat and he was a strong advocate of prohibition, doing everything in his power to promote the cause of temperance. Mr. Hackleman passed away December 21, 1919, after but a week's illness, and his death was the occasion of deep and widespread regret to all who knew him, for his excellent qualities of heart and mind had won for him many friends, and his stanchest friends were those who had known him longest and best, indicating that his life was well spent. The worthy son of a worthy sire, he at all times gave his aid and influence on the side of progress and improvement along those lines which are potent forces in the world's advance- ment.
LEWIS E. ROY.
A native son of Oregon is Lewis E. Roy, who since 1889 has been actively engaged in the blacksmith business at Pilot Rock, Umatilla county. He was born in Washing- ton county on the 17th of June, 1861, a son of Daniel F. and Sarah P. (Morris) Roy. The father was a native of Missouri, while the mother was born in Wisconsin. In 1851 Daniel F. Roy came west with his parents, making the trip overland in ox-drawn wagons. They followed the old Oregon Trail and after six months of hardship arrived in Washington county, Oregon, where they took up land upon which they built a three room log house, and there his parents resided until death. Daniel F. Roy left this home ranch when but a boy and went to California, where he engaged in prospecting and mining. His death occurred while he was in that line of work in Jacksonville county, Oregon, at the age of fifty-four years. Daniel F. Roy and Sarah P. Morris were married in Yamhill county and Mrs. Roy is now living in Yamhill at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. In 1851 she also came overland by ox-team to Oregon, with her parents. Her father, E. S. Morris, came west from Wisconsin in 1851 and located on land west of Yamhill. He improved this land, whereon he built a log house and there resided until his death, which occurred at the age of ninety-seven years. His wife passed away four years later, at age of ninety-six years. Throughout his life Daniel F. Roy was a democrat, having firm belief in the principles of that party as factors in good government.
Lewis E. Roy acquired his education in the schools of Yamhill county and also at Hillsboro, Washington county, and remained with his grandfather on the home ranch until he reached manhood. He then determined to learn the blacksmith's trade and spent three years with W. R. Brown at Amity. The next four years were spent in Hillsboro, under the able tutorship of R. C. Cave, and in due time, finishing his appren- ticeship, he followed his trade at Forest Grove, McMinnville and Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. In 1889 he came to Pilot Rock and opened up a blacksmith shop, in the conduct of which he has been active for over thirty years. He has built up an extensive patronage and his shop is widely known throughout the community. His life has been an intensely busy one and its use and worth none of his fellow citizens question.
In 1893 Mr. Roy was united in marriage to Miss Hattie M. Miller, a daughter of Abraham and Nancy Miller, and a native of Washington, her birth having occurred near Walla Walla. Her parents were both natives of Indiana and came to Oregon in 1861 by way of the old Oregon Trail. They brought with them numerous horses and cattle, which were stampeded during several Indian attacks and many of them were lost. Mr. Miller acquired a homestead where Hotel Pendleton now stands and there he resided for a number of years. For some time he lived in Washington but returned to Oregon and spent his last years in Pilot Rock. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Roy three children have been born: Marvin L., Norris G., and Teddy A.
Mr. Roy has always given his support to the republican party, in the interests of
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which he has taken a prominent part, although he has had no desire to hold public office. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and takes an interest in all civic affairs. The support of Mr. Roy may always be counted upon in the promoting of a movement which he deems of value to the welfare of the community. The success which he has achieved is the result of his own labor and he is readily conceded to be an exemplary citizen of Pilot Rock.
WILLIAM WALLACE PAYNE.
William Wallace Payne, vice president of the Pacific Export Lumber Company and a well known figure in lumber circles in the northwest, has been a resident of Portland since 1902. His birth occurred on a farm near Port Townsend, Washington, in 1880, his parents being William and Irma (Pilcher) Payne. The father was born in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1845, and in early life came to the Pacific coast, settling in Jefferson county, Washington, where he was married to Miss Pilcher, a native of California. At the time of the Civil war he espoused the Union cause and did active duty at the front. He was prominent in democratic circles and was a recognized political leader of the state, serving for three terms in the lower house of the Wash- ington general assembly. He died in the year 1897.
William W. Payne attended the schools of Port Townsend, where he pursued a high school course and then received his initial training in the lumher busi- ness. Throughout his entire career he has been connected with the lumber trade. He has never dissipated his energies over a broad field but has concentrated his efforts upon a thorough mastery of every phase of the lumber business and step by step has advanced, his increasing power and ability bringing him prominently to the front in this connection. In 1917 he was made vice president of the Pacific Export Lumber Company, having for the previous eleven years been a representative of this company in China, where the corporation has an extensive trade. He is also a director, of the R. J. Brown Company, a lumber concern, and a director in The Far East Hardwood Company. The business of these corporations has become one of large volume, so that as an official Mr. Payne is directing very important interests and is regarded as one of the prominent lumbermen of the northwest.
On the 25th of October, 1913, in Manila, Philippine Islands, Mr. Payne was united in marriage to Miss Shelby Martin and they have become the parents of four children: Margaret E., William W., Jr., Shelby P. and Richard M. Mr. Payne attends the Pres- hyterian church and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He also belongs to the Arlington Club and his interest in local affairs is shown by his membership in the Chamber of Commerce and his support of the organized efforts of that institution to upbuild the city, to advance its trade relations and to maintain high civic standards. His political endorsement has always been given to the democratic party and while never an office seeker he has measured up to high standards of citizenship and during the war period took active part in promoting the bond drives.
A. L. KEENAN.
A. L. Keenan, who was prominently known for many years as a general contractor of Portland, was born in Piatt county, Illinois, in 1860, a son of Samuel M. and Rebecca (Prey) Keenan, the former a native of Clinton county, Ohio, while the latter was born in Franklin county of the same state. The mother died when a comparatively young woman, being about thirty-one years of age. The father and his family after. ward came to Oregon in 1871, settling near Milwaukie, while subsequently they removed to Portland, where the sons became actively engaged in general contracting, in which they continued for many years. The firm became prominently associated with many public improvements and had the contract for nearly all of the street pavement in East Portland. A. L. Keenan was a most energetic and progressive business man. He acquainted himself with every phase of the business in which he engaged and was constantly seeking to promote progress in his chosen field, adopting every new method which he deemed of value in the prosecution of the work. He remained in the busi-
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ness until about two years prior to his death and throughout the entire period main- tained an unassailable reputation for business integrity as well as enterprise.
In 1893 Mr. Keenan was united in marriage to Mrs. Anna J. Falke, a daughter of Phillip and Mary (Knoph) Hartman, and the widow of Henry F. Falke. By her former marriage Mrs. Keenan had two sons: Fred W., who is a resident of Portland; and Frank P., who has passed away. Her first husband, Henry F. Falke, departed this life in 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Keenan had no children of their own but reared an adopted son, William S. Keenan, whom they took from the Waverly Baby Home in 1904 and carefully educated. When war was declared he enlisted on the 11th of April, 1917, in the navy and was in European waters for twenty-one months, serving on one of the destroyers, being a pointer on the U. S. S. Paulding. He received an honorable dis- charge on the 17th of June, 1919, in Salt Lake City, and is now at Heppner, Oregon, where he occupies a clerical position with the O .- W. Railroad & Navigation Company.
Mr. Keenan was one of the most active and earnest supporters of the Waverly Baby Home. He became one of the charter members thereof on its organization thirty- one years ago. This home was established under the auspices of the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union and from that time until his death Mr. Keenan remained treasurer of the institution. Land was given for the building by Captain Kern and the association erected the building. Mr. Keenan many times went to the Home and assisted the association when he was physically unable to do so. The cause, however, made strong appeal to his sympathy and many times he and his wife took children into their own home and cared for them without compensation. The association has indeed lost a most faithful friend in his passing. He took a keen and helpful interest in all activities for the betterment of mankind and the uplift of the individual, his aid and influence ever being on the side of right, progress and reform. Fraternally he was identified with the Woodmen of the World, the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, the Neighbors of Woodcraft and the Grange. His religious faith was indicated by his membership in the United Evangelical church, of which he was a strong sup- porter, while the cause of prohibition also found in him a stanch champion. He had reached the sixtieth milestone on life's journey when called to his final rest on the 29th of June, 1920.
FRANK LESLIE McGUIRE.
Frank Leslie McGuire is the president of the McGuire Investment Company of Portland and a national figure in real estate circles. He was born in 1887, in Portland, and is a son of Hollister D. and Kate (Stuart) McGuire. The father was also a native of Oregon, his birth having occurred in Washington county in 1852, his parents having been among the earliest of the pioneer settlers in the northwest. Having arrived at years of maturity he wedded Kate Stuart, a native of Arkansas. The grandfather was Francis McGuire, who was born in Virginia and came across the plains with ox team and wagon to Oregon in 1852. From that time to the present the family has taken active part in laying broad and deep the foundation upon which the present progress and prosperity of the state are built. Hollister D. McGuire remained a resident of Oregon throughout his life and was filling the position of fish commissioner of the state when he passed away in 1898.
Frank L. McGuire was reared in Portland and here attended the public schools, spending two years as a high school pupil. His textbooks were put aside when he reached the age of nineteen years that he might start out in the business world and he established a grocery store, which he conducted for two years, winning success in that venture. He then sold his store, bought sheep and engaged in sheep raising for about a year. In the spring of 1918 he established a real estate business in Portland and has since been active along that line. He is a man of notable enterprise and pre- science in business affairs, his keen discrimination and sound judgment being con- stantly manifest in his management of his real estate interests. Something of the volume of his business is indicated in the fact that the company of which he is the head sold one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven homes in Portland in 1920, estab- lishing a national record.
In July, 1918, in San Francisco, Mr. McGuire was united in marriage to Miss Hazel Allen. They attend the Presbyterian church, in which they hold membership, and Mr. McGuire gives his political support to the republican party. He is now one
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of the directors of the Roosevelt Republican Club and has also held other public office, having served as president of the Portland Realty Board in 1917. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and also belongs to the Woodmen of the World and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has member- ship relations with the Multnomah Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Portland Realty Club, the Artisans, the Kiwanis Club, the Ad Club and the One Hundred Per Cent Club. His interests are broad and varied, showing him to be a man of well rounded character. While but thirty-three years of age he has already attained a posi- tion which many an older man might well envy and what he has accomplished in real estate circles indicates that his future career will be well worth watching.
HENRY ARTHUR WELLINGTON GRAHAM.
Henry A. W. Graham is now holding the position of cashier of the Canby State Bank and is widely recognized as one of the prominent citizens of Clackamas county. He is a native of the province of Ontario, Canada, born there on the 14th of May, 1886, a son of J. H. and Minetta (Howse) Graham. His ancestors had long been residents of Ontario, Canada, but his parents removed to the United States in 1897.
When his parents removed to the United States Mr. Graham was in his eleventh year, and after they had become settled in Minnesota, he began his education. His elementary education was received in that state and determining upon a professional career Mr. Graham engaged in teaching school to assist in paying his way through college. He attended the Valparaiso College and in due time graduated as a pharmacist. He continued to teach and supplemented that work with clerking in drug stores, and as a result of this industry was able to take an academic course in the University of Chicago. With this knowledge as a firm foundation Mr. Graham became connected with a drug establishment at Detroit, Minnesota, and remained in this position for a time. In 1907 he removed to Oregon and continued his profession at Salem and Port- land. He later purchased a drug business at Woodlawn and successfully conducted that venture until 1912, when he hecame a member of the Huntley Drug Company and went to Canby. In Canby he took charge of the firm's business but in 1916 severed his connections with this company and accepted the position of cashier with the Canby State Bank. He has since held this position, to which he has devoted much industry and diligence and as a result has won the confidence and goodwill of those with whom he has been associated.
In 1913 Mr. Graham was united in marriage to Miss Theresa Horrigan, a daugh- ter of Michel Horrigan, who as a well known railroad contractor of Omaha, Nebraska, constructed a large portion of the Union Pacific Railway west of Omaha and across Wyoming.
In fraternal circles Mr. Graham is also a man of importance. He has achieved the rank of thirty-second degree Mason and is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is also affiliated with the Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen of the World, and the United Artisans. Although Mr. Graham has never taken an active part in politics he has always been active in every civic movement and any move- ment pertaining to the welfare of his county and state could always count on his services. He is widely recognized as a capable business man and a popular citizen, who has done much to advance the interest of Clackamas county and the state.
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