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WILLIAM ALBERS
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completed in 1918. The floor space covers three hundred and sixty-six thousand two hundred square feet and the elevator capacity is two hundred and fifty thousand bushels of grain. This plant was erected at a cost of almost a million dollars. The business of the company at San Francisco is housed in two reinforced modern con- crete structures, in one of which the Albers flour and meal products are produced. The plant is located near the docks, was constructed in 1908 and has about fifty thousand square feet of floor space. The cereal mills at San Francisco are located near the wharves and along the belt line railroad. The mills are fully equipped with all modern machinery for the manufacture of cereals, the output consisting largely of the Carnation wheat and oat products. This building was erected in 1908 and has about fifty thousand square feet of floor space. In 1907 the business was extended to Los Angeles, in which year the mill was originally built, while in 1915 the capacity was doubled, the total floor space being now thirty-eight thousand five hundred square feet, while the grain capacity is one hundred thousand bushels. At Los Angeles the plant is especially used for the Alhers flapjack flour, although a full line of the Albers goods is manu- factured. Into Utah the business has also been extended, for at Ogden in 1916 were constructed additional mills provided with ample storing and manufacturing facilities. There is a grain capacity of three hundred and fifty thousand bushels and a floor space of thirty-seven thousand sixty-four square feet. The principal output being the famous brand of Sunripe cereals. Thus with the continuous development and expansion of the business it has become one of the important enterprises of this character on the Pacific coast. The officers are: George Albers of Seattle, Washington, president; William Al- bers of Portland, vice president; Frank Albers of San Francisco, treasurer; and B. M. Denison of Portland, secretary; Mrs. B. Albers and Mr. George A. Westgate, are directors. Offices and agencies are maintained at Seattle, Tacoma and Bellingham, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, California; Ogden, Utah; New York city; Kobe, Japan; and Valparaiso, Chile.
William Albers was married in Portland, April 26, 1904, to Miss Mary Miller. He belongs to the Portland Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Catholic church and also has membership with the Knights of Columbus.
GUNDER TERJESON.
A most prominent agriculturist and business man of Pendleton, Umatilla county, is Gunder Terjeson, who was born in Kristiansand, Norway, on the 19th of March, 1870, a son of Terje Gunderson and his wife, Mary Nelson.
Gunder Terjeson spent his early boyhood in his native country, where he received a good education, and when tales of the opportunities offered in the new world reached his ears he determined to come to the United States. He was about eighteen years of age when he came to this country, settling in Grand Island, Nebraska. There he ob- tained work on farms, which line of occupation he followed for three years and in 1891 removed to Helix, Umatilla county. He worked on farms in this vicinity for an additional three years and then, engaging in farming on his own account, he leased some land which he operated for a number of years, later purchasing a half section of some of the finest land in the county. He improved the ranch, gradually increasing his acreage until he is now in possession of nineteen hundred acres. Mr. Terjeson is still active in the conduct of the ranch, in which his son, Thomas, now has a half interest. Although the greater part of his life has been devoted to his farming inter- ยท ests, in which he has achieved more than a substantial amount of success, Mr. Terjeson has been active in financial circles, being organizer of the Helix Bank, of which he is now president. This bank was organized with a capital of $50,000, with Tom Mont- gomery as the first president. In business circles he is likewise recognized as a promi- nent factor, being vice president of the Helix Milling Company and he was vice presi- dent of the former Mutual Warehouse Company. In 1914 Mr. Terjeson purchased a fine home in Pendleton, where he is now residing, an honored and respected citizen of the community.
Mr. Terjeson has been twice married, his first marriage taking place in 1898, when Miss Rachael Jenson, became his wife. Her death occurred in 1909 in Los Angeles, at the age of twenty-nine years. To this union two children were born: Thomas and Jens. In 1911 Mr. Terjeson was again married this time to Miss Karen Olson, daughter
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of Salva and Karen (Jensen) Olson, and to this union three children have been born: Ralph S .; Levern E .; and Mildred E.
Since age conferred upon Mr. Terjeson the right of franchise, he has been a stanch supporter of the republican party and the principles for which it stands sponsor. He has no fraternal affiliations, preferring to devote his time to his business and home in- terests. In every sense of the word is Mr. Terjeson a self-made man. He came to this country alone and he was a strong factor in getting many more of his fellowmen to come to the country and try their fortunes in Umatilla county. He has always conducted his farming and business interests upon the highest principles and he has won the confidence and goodwill of all with whom he has come into contact.
LEVI CHRISMAN.
The way of the transgressor is hard in Wasco county, for the sheriff of that county is Levi Chrisman, one of the old-time, two-fisted, fearless officers who is dismayed at no obstacle in the line of his official duty. He was born at Dufur, Wasco county, in 1869, and is a son of C. E. Chrisman, a native of Missouri and a member of a pioneer family of that state. The father crossed the plains in 1844 and became one of the early set- tlers and pioneers of Oregon. His wife, who was Mary A. Murphy before her marriage, also belonged to a family of pioneers which settled this state.
Levi Chrisman was educated in the graded schools of Wasco county and at the Wasco Independent Academy. The first three years of his manhood were spent in the railroad business and during the next sixteen years he was engaged at mercantile occupations in The Dalles and also dealt extensively in stock.
In 1906, Mr. Chrisman's fellow citizens, having become acquainted with his integrity and absolute fearlessness, tendered him the office of county sheriff, and having elected him to that position, have continued to reelect him each alternate year for the past fifteen years. His daring captures of many criminals having become widely known, the mere knowledge that Levi Chrisman still occupies the office of sheriff of Wasco county, is a potent factor in causing would-be law-breakers to give that county a wide berth. He is a mild-mannered man and always cool under the most trying circum- stances, but he has established a reputation as a determined "go get 'em," and the whiz of an unfriendly bullet never deters him from pursuing his duty as he sees it.
In 1894 Mr. Chrisman was married to Miss Edna C. Martin, of The Dalles, who died in 1907, leaving five children, namely: Mrs. R. P. Johnson, of The Dalles; Mrs. Neva M. Rasmussen, of Bremerton, Washington; Vernon and Cecil, both students of The Dalles high school, and Elsie, attending the graded schools.
Mr. Chrisman takes a warm interest in fraternal affairs. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, in which order he has filled all the chairs and has occupied a seat in the Grand Lodge; is a member of the Masonic order, being a Knight Templar and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine; and also holds membership in the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in the Woodmen of the World. There are few men in this part of the state who have served the public with greater fidelity or won more friends than Sheriff Chrisman of Wasco county.
STEPHEN RICHARDS.
During the latter part of his life Stephen Richards was a resident of Portland, but . though his closing years were spent on the Pacific coast, his early manhood was passed on the Atlantic seaboard. His birth occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1847, and in early manhood he was connected with the navy. For a long period he resided in Jersey City, New Jersey, but prior to leaving New England had acquired his education in Boston, where he received thorough training. Subsequent to his experience in the navy he became connected with the Standard Oil Company, which he represented for thirty years, making his home in Jersey City. Close confinement to business and assiduous and unrelaxing attention to the interests under his control at length under- mined his health and in the hope of recuperating he crossed the continent and took up his abode in Oregon in 1913, continuing a resident of Portland until his demise.
In 1914 Mr. Richards was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary Jane Walker, a native
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of England and a daughter of Thomas Woodward, whose father also bore the name of Thomas Woodward. Both her father and her grandfather were natives of England and the latter was the eldest child of a family of thirteen. He lived to the advanced age of ninety-four years and was a brewer by trade, serving for many years as brewer for Lord and Lady Lathcam at Chester Castle, England. His son and namesake, Thomas Woodward, Jr., was the youngest of a family of fourteen children. He was manager of a hotel for about thirty years, spending his life in that business. Mrs. Richards was the eldest of a family of fifteen children and in 1900 she became the wife of Robert Walker, of Liverpool, England, who passed away soon afterward, leaving a son, Thomas Leonard Walker, who is now residing at Santa Monica, California, where he is learning the camera business in connection with the moving picture industry.
Mrs. Richards came to Oregon in 1910 and four years later was married to Stephen Richards. She continues her home in Portland, where her second husband passed away December 28, 1918. He was a loyal adherent of the Catholic faith and in politics was a stanch democrat. While spending the greater part of his life in the east, he nevertheless won many friends during the period of his residence in Portland, so that his death was the occasion of deep regret here. Mrs. Richards has become widely known in the Rose City, where the hospitality of many of the best homes is freely accorded her. While her early life was spent in England, she has made her home in the United States for thirty-two years. She has become much attached to this city of the west and finds great enjoyment in the companionship of the many friends that she has made during her residence here.
MAJOR CHARLES MARSHALL HODGES.
Charles Marshall Hodges, admitted to the bar in 1913, has engaged in the practice of law in Portland since the following year, save for his period of service during the World war. He was born in Christiansburg, Virginia, March 8, 1882, a son of Sand- ford R. and Isabella (Akers) Hodges. The father was a native of Montgomery county, Virginia, born in 1846 and passed away in 1914, having for a number of years survived his wife, whose death occurred in 1901. They had spent their lives in Virginia.
Charles M. Hodges was reared in Christiansburg where he attended school and afterward became a student at the Christian College, Lynchburg, Virginia. After leav- ing that institution he matriculated in the National Business College at Roanoke, Virginia, and continued a resident of Virginia until he came to the northwest. In 1905 he made his way to Astoria, Oregon, and was cashier of the Astoria and Columbia River Railroad, there remaining until 1910, when he came to Portland and entered the claim department of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway, with which he continued until 1914. While thus employed he attended the law department of the University of Oregon in Portland, and was graduated in 1913, being admitted to the bar in the same year and to practice before the Oregon supreme court. In 1914 he took up pro- fessional work and has since been a representative of the bar of this city.
Mr. Hodges' military experience has covered a wide scope. In November, 1901, he enlisted at Johnson City, Tennessee, in the United States army as a member of Company D, Sixteenth Infantry Regiment, and was sent to the Philippine Islands, serving there from that date until July, 1902. He then returned with his regiment and went to Fort Slocum, New York, where he remained until June, 1904. He was next sent to Fort McPherson, Georgia, where he received an honorable discharge on the 19th of November of the same year, having in the meantime been promoted to the rank of sergeant. Following this military experience he continued to live in his old home in Virginia until coming to Oregon in 1905. Following America's entrance into the World war, he again responded to the country's call for military aid. On the 9th of May, 1917, he entered the Officers' Training School at the Presidio in San Francisco and there continued until August 15, 1917, receiving a commission as captain of infantry. He was then sent to Camp Lewis, Washington, where he remained until September 5, 1917, when he was sent to Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. In April, 1918, he went overseas and remained in France for fifteen months, returning on the 27th of July, 1919. He had been promoted to the rank of major in March of that year. He participated in the St. Mihiel drive and for thirty-one days was in the Argonne. Fol- lowing the signing of the armistice while he was still in France he attended the law university at Lyons, France, from March until June 30, 1919, there studying international
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law and thus becoming more thoroughly qualified for his professional duties. He received from Major General C. P. Summerall, commanding the Fifth Army Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, a letter which was written on the 13th of February, 1919, and reads as follows: "The process of demobilization has included the headquar- ters of the Fifth Army Corps, which, in pursuance of orders from higher authority, must soon terminate its existence with the American Expeditionary Forces. It there- fore becomes the painful task of the corps commander to take leave of the officers who have constituted the staff, and who have made possible the great achievements that are recorded in the history of the corps. Since your assignment to duty with the G-1 Section, tasks of great magnitude and responsibility have devolved upon you. In every case you have met your obligations in a manner to accomplish successful results and to attract the admiration and commendation of your associates on the staff. You have at all times displayed those qualities of loyalty, zeal, efficiency and self-sacrificing devotion to duty by which alone the full measure of results could have been accom- plished and you have richly earned the gratitude of your comrades in arms and of your countrymen. The corps commander takes this occasion to convey to you his grateful appreciation of your services and his admiration of your soldierly character and your ability. His abiding interest will accompany you in your future career and he bespeaks for you a continued recognition of those attainments of which your services have given such abundant proof. (Signed) C. P. Summerall."
Major Hodges is a republican in his political views, giving stalwart support to that party and its principles. In Masonry he has obtained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and is also connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is likewise a member of the Press Club and of the Wauna Lake Club and his religious belief is manifest in his member- ship in the Methodist church. His life experiences have been broad and varied and from each he has learned the lesson therein contained, all of which have qualified him to understand human nature and correctly to judge men of their motives-a factor which is always essential in law practice.
HARRISON ALLEN.
Harrison Allen, of the law firm of Griffith, Leiter & Allen of Portland, comes from a family of lawyers. His father, Judge George W. Allen, is a distinguished Colorado jurist and a member of the supreme court of that state and several of his uncles were eminent members of the profession in the state of Pennsylvania.
Harrison Allen was born in the town of Warren, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1869. His parents removed to Colorado in 1880 and his education was largely acquired in the schools of Denver. After completing a high school course he entered the Denver University, where he pursued an academic course, later heing admitted to the Colorado har in 1894. His desire to be independent of any family "pull" and enjoy the oppor- tunities of the growing northwest, led him to come to Oregon the same year with the determination to make a reputation solely by whatever ability he might possess, without reliance upon the reputation and prestige of his people. Being admitted to practice at the Oregon har he established his office at St. Helens in the fall of 1894 and remained there until 1897, when he removed to Astoria. During the next ten years he practiced his profession there and gained an enviable reputation as a lawyer and a citizen. In 1898 he was elected city attorney of Astoria and served until 1900, when he was elected district attorney of the fifth district, which embraced Clatsop, Columbia, Washington and Clackamas counties, and in 1904 he was reelected without opposition. In 1907 he resigned and moved to Portland, where he formed a connection with the firm of Carey & Kerr as trial lawyer, which connection was maintained until 1912. He then severed that association to become a member of the firm of Griffith, Leiter & Allen, which was formed that year. In the twenty-seven years of his residence in Oregon Harrison Allen has won a reputation second to that of no lawyer in the state. As a trial lawyer it is safe to say that he occupies a foremost place and his brother practi- tioners heartily concede that in his cross-examinations of witnesses he is a master artist. He is recognized as one of the eminent members of the bar of Oregon. His mind is naturally keen and analytical and his deductions are always sound and logical.
On the 26th of February, 1894, Mr. Allen married Miss Ethel May Walker, the daughter of an old-time and eminent California family. In social life Mr. Allen is
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very popular. He is what is termed a "man's man" and his friends are legion through- out the state. He is a member of the State, County and American Bar Associations, the Arlington Club and the Pennsylvania Club and no assemblage of the members of these organizations is counted a success unless the proceedings are enlivened with witticisms by or on Harrison Allen, who is universally esteemed as a prince of good fellows. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order and the Benevolent Pro- tective Order of Elks, while politically he is an adherent of the republican party. The young lawyer who at twenty-five years of age came to the Pacific northwest to build a reputation for himself away from the "pull" of a distinguished line of forbears has demonstrated his mettle and ability, for one lawyer recently remarked to the writer: "Harrison Allen is not known as Judge Allen's son, but when the eminent judge of the supreme court of Colorado visits the coast the newspapers always write of him as 'Harrison Allen's father.'" The law firm of which Mr. Allen is a member enjoys an extensive clientage of a most important character and ranks high in the northwest. Harrison Allen has by his marked ability had a large share in placing the firm where it now stands. Mr. Allen has never sought political preferment although his wide acquaintance and acknowledged ability would win for him any office to which he might aspire, but he prefers to remain strictly in the path of his profession. He is never remiss in the duties of citizenship and cooperates earnestly in all projects that tend to benefit the city and state.
EDWARD EVERETT BRODIE.
Edward Everett Brodie is widely recognized throughout the state of Oregon as a leader among newspaper men. The value of the local newspaper in the upbuilding of the best interests of any community is universally conceded, and the Morning Enter- prise has indeed been a large factor in the development of Oregon City. Mr. Brodie is a native of Oregon, born in this state in 1876, a son of Elias and Jane Matilda (Goff) Brodie. The Brodies are of pure Scotch ancestry and the great-grandfather of Mr. Brodie emigrated from Scotland to this country in its early days. His father, a native of Kentucky, was a soldier who served in the army of the United States for over half a century and settled in Oregon in the year 1868. His mother's family was from New England.
Mr. Brodie received a good education, first attending the grade and high schools of Astoria and later the University of Oregon. The call of the newspaper world was strong and immediately upon finishing his education he secured work on a newspaper. For some time he was connected with the Astoria Budget and his service on that paper laid the foundation for his later work. Seeing opportunities in the newspaper field he removed to Oregon City in 1901 and accepted a position on the Enterprise, which paper is one of the three oldest newspapers in the state and has served its community for over fifty years. For seven years he worked on the Enterprise and in that time studied every phase of the workings of the institution until he knew every step taken in the publishing of the news from the time it was brought in by the reporters until it was taken off of the press and distributed to the newsboys. He was not afraid of work and took advantage of every opportunity offered to increase his knowledge. Finally he purchased the Enterprise and in 1910 started to issue a paper daily. The venture proved to be successful and for the past ten years the Morning Enterprise has been one of the leading papers of the Willamette valley. Mr. Brodie is a fighter but he fights fair and believes in facing public questions without regard to his personal interests. There are no half-way measures nor compromises for E. E. Brodie.
The esteem in which he is held by newspaper men is evidenced by the fact that he is vice president of the National Editorial Association as well as ex-president of the Oregon Editorial Association. It is widely conceded that upon his retirement from the presidency of the Oregon Editorial Association that body was the best organ- ization of its kind in the country. He has been a member of various other organizations and in 1916 was one of the members appointed on the board to investigate the peni- tentiary, the report of which board brought about many reforms. Being always in- terested in the moral and intellectual development of his community he has also served as secretary of the board of education of the city since 1904, secretary of the Com- mercial Club of Oregon City, director of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce and
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of the McLoughlin Memorial Association. He is also an active member of the Pacific Northwest Tourist Association and of the Portland Press Club.
In 1905 Mr. Brodie was united in marriage to Miss Imogen Harding, daughter of George A. Harding and great-granddaughter of Samuel K. Barlow. Samuel K. Barlow settled in Oregon in 1845 and was the builder of the famous road known as the Barlow Road, extending from eastern Oregon to the Willamette valley and saving the bateau journey down the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Of this great pathfinder, Judge Deady of the United States supreme court said: "The building of the Barlow Road contributed more toward the prosperity of the Willamette valley and the future state of Oregon than any other achievement prior to the building of the railway in 1870." Mrs. Brodie's great-grandmother was Susanna Lee of South Carolina, whose father, William Lee, was a lieutenant of artillery in the Revolutionary war and was crippled for life by the bursting of a shell. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Brodie: George Harding and Madelon Jane, both of whom are pupils of the Oregon City schools.
Besides the many organizations with which he is affiliated Mr. Brodie is also a member of the Elks, the Masons, Woodman of the World, regent of the Royal Arcanum and a member of the State Grange. Although he has never sought nor accepted public office Mr. Brodie has always been an active member of the republican party and per- sonally and with the aid of his paper has fought all of the battles of his party to the finish. He has always fought against the waste of public money, especially in road building and as a result of his efforts in this direction Clackamas county is the only county in the state that has installed its own plant for hard surface road building. For many years Mr. Brodie has been a member of the republican county committee and he is now serving as chairman of that body.
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