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In 1919 occurred the marriage of Dr. Norris and Miss Wanda Logan, a daughter of Lyonal B. Logan, a retired Portland capitalist. Mrs. Norris is a native of Crook county, Oregon, and a graduate of St. Marys College of Portland. She is prominent in the club and social circles of Bend and still maintains membership in the literary and social clubs of Portland. Dr. Norris has a son, Donald, who is living in Oregon City.
Dr. Norris is fraternally identified with the Masons, Elks and Maccabees and in line with his profession he is a member of the Central Oregon Medical Society and the State Medical Society. During his college days he was active in all campus affairs and became a member of Omega Epsilon Pi, a national fraternity. Dr. Norris finds recreation in outdoor sports and holds membership in the Multnomah Club and the B. A. A. C. of Bend. Dr. Norris is a man of much personal charm, so necessary to one of his profession, and in every way he gives evidence of having been reared in a home of culture and refinement. Dr. Norris is readily conceded to have a thorough knowledge of his profession and his duties are ever performed with a sense of con- scientious obligation and with strict adherence to the highest professional ethics.
A. J. LAMM.
A. J. Lamm, a consulting civil and electrical engineer, engaged in independent investigation work for the water front commission of Portland, is a man of broad experience and high professional attainments, whose ability has won for him a fore- most position in engineering circles of the country. A native of Norway, he was born in 1878, a son of Frederick and Alma (Parr) Lamm, the former of whom was also born in the Land of the Midnight Sun, while the latter was a native of England and a rep- resentative of one of its oldest families. The father attained world-wide distinction as a chemist, being the first successfully to manufacture and market dynamite, and for twenty-five years he was managing director of a factory in Norway. He was a leading citizen of his community, prominent in Masonic circles, and his demise occurred in
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1887. The mother subsequently resided in Germany for ten years with her daughter, who is now the wife of August Eggers of Grand Forks, North Dakota.
A. J. Lamm acquired the greater part of his education in Germany and for a time was a student in a naval college at Hamburg. He followed engineering work in Europe until 1902, when he emigrated to America, hoping to find in this country a broader field of labor and greater opportunities for advancement. Here his professional ability soon won recognition and he has become identified with many large engineering projects. He first entered the employ of the Foundations Company of New York city and in that con- nection gained much valuable experience, visiting various parts of the country in his work as consulting engineer. In 1914 he was employed by the British government to make investigations in the United States and in 1917 was engineer for the Grant-Smith Shipyards. Following the San Francisco earthquake he went to that city, where as consulting engineer he played an important part in the work of reconstruction. In 1910 he arrived in Portland and was identified with various corporations of this city until 1914, when he opened an office in the Lewis building and entered business circles independently, being now engaged in investigation work for the water front commis- sion of Portland. He has never been content to occupy a position of mediocrity but is constantly striving to perfect his knowledge and ability in his chosen life work and in 1913 went abroad for the purpose of studying conditions at Hamburg, Copenhagen and Christiania.
On the 27th of April, 1907, Mr. Lamm was united in marriage to Miss Maud Cooper of Redding, California, a daughter of George W. Cooper, a leading contractor and builder of that city and a close personal friend and business associate of ex-Senator Weeks of California. Mr. Lamm is a member of the Oregon Chapter of the American Association of Engineers and is also identified with the Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club of Portland. He has never regretted his determination to come to this country, for here he has found the opportunities which he sought and in their utilization has risen to a position of leadership in engineering circles of the northwest.
HARRY BROOKS SNYDER.
As a representative of one of Clackamas county's most progressive business inter- ests, Harry Brooks Snyder is known throughout the county and his home town of Estacada. He is a native of Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, born there in July, 1879, a son of George and Diana (Ritter) Snyder, who were both natives of Pennsylvania and descended from fine old Dutch families. Their ancestors had emigrated to America from Holland in the early days of that state and they became prominent citizens of the communities in which they made their homes.
H. B. Snyder is indebted to the public schools of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, for his education. His father, who was one of the famous light foundrymen of the state, had removed his iron foundry to that city. Many of the bells made by his father are to be found in church belfries throughout America. After putting aside his school books Mr. Snyder engaged as clerk in a mercantile store until he was twenty years of age, when he became a traveling salesman for a wholesale shoe house of Ohio. It was while covering his territory, which extended over Michigan and West Vir- ginia, that the Spanish-American war broke out, and answering the call of his country, he enlisted and in 1899 went to the Philippines with his command. He was attached to the hospital corps, in which he served until 1902. During this period he volunteered to take charge of the cases of Asiatic cholera among the American troops and was therefore put in command of the night force at San Mateo, Luzon. For this display of gallantry and devotion to his country and fellowmen, he was highly com- mended by his superior officers in written communications. For the seven years fol- lowing his honorable discharge from the service, he resumed travel for the shoe company. His travels took him to Seattle at the time of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and while there he was so favorably impressed with the climate and apparent com- mercial possibilities of the coast, that he determined to locate in that section of the country. He selected the beautiful state of Oregon as his future home and after a brief stay in Portland accepted a position with the Estacada Mercantile Company at Estacada, and removed to that place. He remained with this company for two years, and in 1911 established the Cazedera Mercantile Company and operated that business until 1915. In that year he purchased two hundred and forty acres of timber prop-
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erty near Estacada, a portion of which he cleared and put into shape for stock rais- ing. This property he still owns and is cutting timber for the markets and improv- ing the property to a larger degree each year. He plans to clear all of this property and when cleared will use it as a pedigreed stock ranch. In 1919 he again resumed the mercantile business, establishing the Peoples' Store at Estacada. His present store is located on a prominent corner in the town and covers an area of nearly four thousand square feet. He carries a full stock of general merchandise. The trade territory which embraces the best part of Clackamas county is conceded to be one of the largest in that county.
In 1913 Mr. Snyder was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hauck, a daughter of George W. Hauck of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, who is a member of the Wilcox Manufacturing Company. This industry is one of the largest in the state of Pennsyl- vania, and the output of the company at the present time is devoted to drop forgings for automobiles. Mrs. Snyder is one of the important stockholders of the Wilcox Manufacturing Company, and her mother, Mrs. Alice S. Hauck, is past president of the Woman's Relief Corps of Pennsylvania, and is very active in all club work. As a suffrage worker she has been a national figure and her charities have been countless and without ostentation. One child, a son, has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Snyder. He is named Harry B., Jr., and is but five months of age.
The only fraternal organization with which Mr. Snyder is affiliated is the B. P. O. E. While a citizen who feels it a duty to exercise his right of franchise he is not a politician in any sense of the word and has never aspired to public office. He is readily conceded to be one of the best merchants in Clackamas county and as a citi- zen he can always be counted upon to give his support to any movement improving the intellectual and moral development of his community.
JAY S. HAMILTON.
Among the chief resources of Oregon are her immense forests of timber and prominent in this field of industry is Jay S. Hamilton, who is conducting a whole- sale lumber business at Portland and since the 1st of July, 1919, has served as super- visor and sales manager for the United States shipping board, having charge of the western district. A native of Wisconsin, he was born in Hammond on the 15th of May, 1874, a son of Jesse S. and Sarah Elizabeth (Egbert) Hamilton. The family is an old and honored one in American history, representatives of the name having participated as soldiers in the Revolutionary war and also in the Civil war. The father was formerly engaged in merchandising but is now living retired. Jay S. Hamilton has a sister in Portland, Mrs. Grant Thomas, who is possessed of consider- able vocal talent and is soloist in the Second Christian Science church of this city.
After completing his high school education Jay S. Hamilton spent two years as a pupil in Hamline University at St. Paul, Minnesota, after which he pursued a course in the normal school at Superior, Wisconsin. Following his graduation from that institution he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for five years and then entered banking circles, becoming cashier of the Island City and Cumberland National Banks. In 1900 he arrived in Portland and was made treasurer of the Portland Lumber Company, which position he filled for six years and then established an independent enterprise under the style of the Jay S. Hamilton Lumber Company, of which he is still the head, conducting interests of an extensive and important character. His thorough experience in and comprehensive knowledge of the lumber industry led to his selection in December, 1917, for the office of secretary of the fir production board and in July, 1919, he was appointed supervisor and sales manager for the United States shipping board, having charge of the western district, and is still serving in that capacity. He is a man of excellent business ability, far- sighted, sagacious and energetic, and is most capably supervising the important interests intrusted to his care.
Mr. Hamilton was united in marriage to Miss Milla Ritan, who passed away leaving a daughter, Grace. On the 1st of February, 1919, he wedded Lola Sender of this city. He resides at No. 321 East Twelfth street, North, and his office is located in the Lumbermen's building.
In 1916 Mr. Hamilton was one of the organizers of the Willamette Lumber Manufacturers Association, of which he became the first secretary, serving in that Vol. III-45
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position for a year, and he was also largely instrumental in securing the passage of the workmen's compensation act through the state legislature. He is much interested in the welfare and advancement of his city and is an earnest and active member of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. He is also identified with the Hoo-Hoos and the Irvington Club and of the last named organization has served for two years as the president. His plans are well defined and promptly executed and in business matters his judgment has ever been found to be sound and reliable. His aid and cooperation are always given on the side of progress and improvement and he stands for those forces which work for the uplift of the individual and the betterment of the community at large.
MAUDE INA DECKER.
Maude Ina Decker is the principal of the Decker Business College of Portland and in this connection is developing an institution of value and worth to the northwest. She is a native of Columbia county, Oregon, and pursued her early education in the common schools there, while later she became a student in Philomath College, at Philomath, and completed her training by graduation from the Gregg school of Short- hand, in Chicago, Illinois, in 1912. She then became a teacher of shorthand in Eugene, and later taught the same branch at Philomath and at Portland for a short time. In the later part of 1912, believing that there was an opening for a well organized business college, she established the Decker Business College, of which she has since been the head. She now has one hundred students of both sexes in the school, which has been thoroughly organized, and gives instruction in all branches of business, having a shorthand and bookkeeping department, also a department of machine book- keeping, in which the ledger posting machine is used. Miss Decker has surrounded herself with a corps of able assistants, each teacher being an expert in her line, and each has had sufficient experience to prove her ability. The school has steadily grown from the beginning and Miss Decker is now recognized as a most successful educator in the field of commercial instruction in the northwest.
Miss Decker has reason to be proud of her New England ancestry, for she is a representative of one of the old families of Massachusetts. Her father, John Henry Decker, was a native of Boston, but moved west to Oregon before the birth of his daughter, and passed away in 1912. His wife, Mrs. Amanda M. Decker, was a native of Michigan, and died in 1919, after a prolonged illness, through which she had the untiring care of her daughter, who at the same time established and brought to a high state of efficiency her business college. Miss Decker is a woman of splendid ability and conducts her school in accordance with the most improved modern methods. She was one of a family of four children the others being: Lincoln, who is at St. Helens; Mrs. Nellie Marlin, living at Vancouver, Washington; and Mrs Petri Milles. who is in Portland. All of the family have remained in the northwest and through- out her life Miss Decker has heen a resident of Oregon. Her recognition of the development of the northwest and the need for thoroughly trained young men and women in business led to the establishment of the institution which bears her name. and which certainly is a credit to her work and to the city in which it is located.
EDWIN H. CATON.
A prominent resident of Athena, Umatilla county, is Edwin H. Caton, who for many years engaged in farming in this county but is now living retired, enjoying the fruits of his diligence and industry. He is a native son of Oregon, his birth having occurred in Marion county, on the 22d of July, 1854, a son of Nathan T. and Martha A. (Harren) Caton. The father was born near St. Louis, Missouri, and when about nineteen years of age came west, making the journey by way of the Isthmus of Panama and settling in San Francisco for a short time. For one year he followed mining, in which venture he achieved a substantial measure of success, but gave up that occupation in 1852, and removed to Willamette Valley, Oregon, taking up a donation claim in Lane county. He later obtained some land in Marion county near Salem, on which he built a log house and resided thereon for a number of years.
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He was a prominent man of his community and held various public offices. During the administration of President Buchanan he was appointed to the office of post- master and he served as county clerk a number of terms, likewise representing Wallowa county in the legislature for two terms. Nathan T. Caton had devoted considerable time to the study of law and soon after his removal to Lincoln county he was called upon to fill the office of district attorney. He was attorney for the Northern Pacific Railroad and in 1896 was a presidential elector. Mr. Caton continued his professional practice until his retirement a few years before his death, which occurred at the home of his daughter in Rothland, B. C. He was then eighty-three years old and had lived a useful life. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party, his religions faith was that of the Christian church, and his fraternal affiliations were with the Masons and Knights of Pythias. Nathan T. Caton enlisted in the Union army, during the Civil war and served bravely and gallantly. He saw active service in the Mexican war and likewise participated in the Indian wars of southern Oregon. He married Miss Martha A. Harren, on the 14th of April, 1853. She was born in Decatur county, Indiana, and in 1845 crossed the plains with her parents, who made the trip as members of a wagon train. Many hardships were endured during the journey and they were the center of several Indian attacks. They followed the old Oregon Trail and were lost trying to find the Meeks cutoff, nearly starving before they reached The Dalles, Oregon. They stopped here but a short time and then went to Marion county and settled near Salem, taking up a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres, which he brought to a high state of cultivation and on which he built a sub- stantial log house. On this land the death of Mrs. Caton's father took place, March 2, 1864, and her mother passed away on the 15th of September, 1881. Mrs. Caton's demise occurred in Davenport, Washington, at the age of sixty-seven years.
The boyhood of Edwin H. Caton was spent in Marion county, where he received his education and when twelve years of age he removed with his parents to Wallowa county, Washington, where he resided until he was twenty-five years of age and fol- lowed the bricklaying trade. In 1887 he left Wallowa, Washington, and came to Oregon, where he purchased his present farm of ninety-one acres. On this land he lived for a number of years and there is no phase of agriculture which he does not understand. While residing in Wallowa, Mr. Caton has studied law quite exten- sively hut because of failing eyesight he was forced to give up his efforts and hopes in this connection. Mr. Caton is now living retired in Athena, enjoying the results of his life of diligence and industry. While on his farm in Umatilla county he followed dairying, in which venture he was also successful.
On the 29th of October, 1879, Mr. Caton was married to Miss Catherine Lienallen, a daughter of Josiah and Johannah (Campbell) Lieuallen the former a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and the latter of Knoxville, Kentucky. When a young man the father of Mrs. Caton went to Missouri, settling in Mercer county, where his mar- riage took place and where he engaged in farming until 1863, when he brought his family across the plains and located near what is now Athena on a ninety-one acre tract, on which he built a log house and otherwise improved the land. He operated this land until his death which took place on the 30th of October, 1890. His wife died on the 25th of June, 1887. The political allegiance of Mr. Lienallen was given to the democratic party and both he and his wife were consistent members of the Baptist church. To the Union of Mr. and Mrs. Caton, four children have been born: Blanche, Mary, Mattie, and Thomas.
Mr. Caton is a democrat in politics, stanchly supporting all measures and interests which he deems of value in the upbuilding of community and commonwealth. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Woodmen of the World. His interest in public and civic affairs is manifest in his connection with the city council and the school board of Athena.
JASPER HARDIN LEWIS.
Jasper Hardin Lewis, formerly proprietor of a meat market in Clatskanie and also mayor of the city, has done much for the upbuilding of his home town since he became a resident here. By his untiring efforts toward improving the town he has won for himself the reputation of a progressive and prominent business man. He was born in Nova Scotia, in 1863, the son of Robert and Malvina Lewis, natives of
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that place. Jasper H. Lewis was reared on his father's farm and educated in the schools of his native province. In 1886 he crossed the border into the United States and made his way to the Pacific coast to enter the salmon fishing business, as he had become familiar with the fishing industry on the Atlantic coast. He engaged in salmon fishing for the succeeding seventeen years, on the expiration of which period he established a meat market in Clatskanie. Mr. Lewis butchered all his own cattle and maintained a ranch of one hundred and five acres, where he raised stock for the market. His slaughter-house was located at Fall creek, three miles west of town. He is interested in the Clatskanie cannery, the Clatskanie cheese factory and other industries and enterprises that are of advantage to the community. He has served for many years as councilman and in 1918 was elected mayor, in which capacity his success as a city father has been won by his constant desire to better the condition of the town. His administration was marked by the improvement and expansion of the city's water system and the surfacing of the main thoroughfares.
In 1896 Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Julia Gilbert, who died in 1899, leaving one son, Jesse Fernard. In 1902 he married Anna J. Birkenfield of Clatskanie, whose father, Benjamin B. Birkenfield, is a popular official of the town. Mrs. Lewis is an active, energetic woman who takes a prominent part in the affairs of the community. She has one daughter, Melvina Amelia, who is a student and a girl of serious trend. She leans to religious thought and is active in church work. Jesse Lewis, who served during the war as a member of the Students Army Training Corps, is now associated with his father in business. He has been fortunate in finding a loving stepmother, who has devoted her life to his rearing and that of her daughter.
Mr. Lewis is a member of the Eagles and has held every office in the order, having served as president for five years. He has also filled all the chairs in the Maccabees. While leaning toward the republican party he maintains an independent political attitude and is assured that the best results can be obtained by an avoidance of partisan action. All projects for the upbuilding of his locality and the welfare of the public receive his generous support and he is always ready to aid in the development of his district.
ROY WHEELER HENDERSHOTT, M. D.
Dr. Roy Wheeler Hendershott, physician and surgeon of Bend, is engaged in general practice, yet his tendency is toward specialization in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Since July, 1917, he has been a resident of Bend and having soon demonstrated his ability in practice his business has steadily grown until it has reached extensive proportions. Dr. Hendershott is not a native of Oregon, for his birth occurred at Fostoria, Ohio, on the 31st of March, 1877, a son of Dr. Peter Monroe and Laura V. (Rowse) Hendershott. For many years Dr. Hendershott's ancestors figured prominently in the affairs of the nation and they have left the impress of their lives upon the pages of this country's history. He is related to President James Monroe, his paternal grandmother having been a sister of the fifth president of the United States. Dr. Hender- shott's father, Dr. Peter Monroe Hendershott, was an early settler of Ohio and the pioneer wool producer and most extensive dealer in that state. He likewise turned his attention to the dental profession and he is still practicing in Ohio, where he has won prominence and substantial success.
In the pursuit of an education Dr. Roy Wheeler Hendershott attended the schools of his native town and in due time entered the Valparaiso University, from which institution he was graduated in 1906 as a pharmacist. For the following ten years he was engaged in the drug business in Ohio and Missouri and during this period took up the study of medicine. Subsequently he came to Oregon, where he entered the medical department of the University of Oregon and was graduated in 1917 with the degree of M. D. In July of that year he located in Bend and associated in the practice of his profession with Dr. U. C. Coe, now of Portland, that connection being maintained until 1918, since which time Dr. Hendershott has practiced alone. It is the desire of Dr. Hendershott to specialize in the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and he has already devoted some time to this branch of the profession, having in 1919 taken a postgraduate course at the Chicago Polyclinic.
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