Portrait and biographical record of Portland and vicinity, Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 89

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county, and daughter of a pioneer of 1850. Two children have been born of this union, of whom Clifford F., who was born in Alameda county, is a graduate of the high-school; while Vivian A. was born in Los Angeles. Mr. Marshall is fra- ternally identified with the Knights of Pythias, of which he is past officer ; with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and with the Knights of the Maccabees. For two terms he was com- mander of the Department of California, Sons of Veterans. He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Commercial Club. An extremely social man, Mr. Marshall is a member of various organizations including boating and hunting clubs, and he is known as a splendid shot. It is a pleasure to his friends to recall an instance of his boyhood, and which has of necessity influenced to a certain extent his whole life. At the age of fourteen, while living in California, he saved the life of a ten year old comrade who had fallen into a flume, but in getting him out lost his hold at the last, and fell a distance of forty-two feet. This accident rendered the heroic life saver un- conscious for several days, but good health and youthful spirits prevailed, and he again faced the future and its great possibility with the loss of one arm.

CAPT. PETER CARSTENS. master ship builder for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company at Portland, is unquestionably one of the most expert in his line in the United States. Everything pertaining to nautical affairs, from diving after sunken hulls to the creation of new ones, has come under the practical observation of this experienced salt, who has climbed from ob- scurity to his present responsibility on his own merits, impelled by the example of a successful ship builder father and the inherent ambition and pride of his race.

In Copenhagen, Denmark, one of the finest cities of modern Europe, Mr. Carstens was born September 12, 1839. His father, Nels Peter, was an eminent national authority on marine af- fairs in Denmark, and for many years maintained a large ship-yard in Copenhagen. He came of an old German family, and his last years were spent in Chicago, Ill., where still lives his wife, Sophia, aged eighty-three years. Of the nine children in the family Capt. Peter is second oldest, and the only one on the coast. The youth was reared in Copenhagen, attended the public schools, and at a very early age became initiated into many of the mysteries of craft production. In 1866 he came to America, having gone to sea at the age of nineteen as a ship carpenter, and for five years off and on was thus employed. On vessels in the West India trade he visited all points in that part of the world, going then into the Brazilian trade. and from there to Gibraltar, before reaching

which he had a sorry accident. A steamer ran into the stern of their boat, threatening loss and complete disaster, but by throwing overboard some of the cargo, the injured stern was reared high in the air, and the vessel went into the port of Gibraltar for repairs.

Arriving in Denmark in 1864, Mr. Carstens was united in marriage with Emily Carlson, the memory of whom had not been obliterated dur- ing his life before the mast. With his newly wedded wife he came to Chicago, Ill., inaugurat- ed a water career of some magnitude, being en- gaged principally in the transporting of lumber and the building of boats. As master of his own vessel, the Juniata, a schooner, he delivered car- goes of lumber to different lake ports, and also assisted with his schooner in wrecking. In time he became the possessor of the Dispatch, and later still of the Monitor, which indications of growing business were followed by the establish- ment of two freight lines, across the lake and on the canal. Notwithstanding his success in the early days of Chicago, Mr. Carstens sold out his business to locate in Portland, where he started to build fishing boats in a yard located near the present steel bridge. This modest undertaking was consigned to the less ambitious in 1876, dur- ing which year he entered the employ of the Ore- gon Railroad & Navigation Company as builder of the steamer S. G. Reed. Having completed this task he still remained with the company, and in 1880 was placed in charge of their ship- yard on the Snake river, the headquarters of the up-river boats, as master ship builder. So satis- factory were his services, and so ready were the heads of the company to recognize so conscien- tions and painstaking an employe, that in 1887 he was made master ship builder of the entire ship- building department of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, which practically com- prises the yards on Snake river, in Portland, and on the Sound. That Captain Carstens has been fully equal to the confidence imposed in his judgment and skill has been uninterruptedly demonstrated during his long and faithful service with one of the largest transportation organiza- tions in the world.

The family of Captain Carstens is composed of his wife, and the following children : Henry, a lumber manufacturer and merchant of Seattle, Wash .; Mrs. Fisher, of Seattle ; Alvin, a lumber- man of Seattle ; and Lillie, living at home. Cap- tain Carstens is fraternally identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in poli- tical affiliation is a Republican.

CHRISTOPHER H. GUTTRIDGE. In Tip- ton, that city of iron and coal mines, iron forges, rolling and slitting mills, and engine, soap and

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red-lead factories, eight miles west-southwest of Birmingham, Staffordshire, England, Christo- pher H. Guttridge was born December 25, 1829. Three years later, in 1832, his father, John Gutt- ridge, died, leaving a family of nine children to the care of his wife, Parthenia ( Henney) Gutt- ridge. As may be imagined, the occupation of coal miner had not permitted of the accumula- tion of any superfluous capital, and it devolved upon the children to assist in the family mainte- nance as soon as they were sufficiently developed to earn their own living.

As a very young man Christopher H. Gutt- ridge learned the puddler's trade in the iron works of Tipton, and his earnings went far to- wards bringing comfort and good cheer into the family circle. At the age of twenty-three years he made arrangements to come to America, em- barking on the sailer Chimborazo, which carried also thirteen hundred emigrants. The voyage of thirty-seven days was an eventful one, and must have served to dampen the ardor of those bound for strange shores. In addition to extremely rough weather, and delaying calms, the vessel had on board eleven cases of small-pox. Arriv- ing in New York in June, 1853, Mr. Guttridge went at once to Covington, Ky., where he lived for five years, and in 1858 moved out into the country, where he bought and managed a farm, and engaged in buying and selling produce.

In 1873 Mr. Guttridge crossed the country by rail to San Francisco, and came by boat to Port- land. After spending three months in Salem, he bought one hundred and sixty-one acres of the old Jacob Candle donation claim near Spring- water. That his days have been spent in well- doing is proved by the fact that one hundred acres of his land is now cleared, and that it is one of the most practically developed farms in this section of the country. Twenty acres of prunes. and fifteen acres of apples constitute a gratifying source of revenue to the enterprising owner, who also conducts general farming and stock-raising enterprises on a large scale.

The wife of Mr. Guttridge was formerly Mary E. Stephenson, whom he married in 1861, and who is the mother of ten children. Of these, James W. lives in Springwater ; John H. lives in Grant county; Parthenia Herring lives in Cur- rinsville ; Louisa M. Guttridge lives in eastern Oregon : Mary A. is deceased : Joseph lives in Springwater: Robert S .: George; Alice; and Della. Mr. Guttridge is independent in politics. and has been a member of the school board for several years. In religion he entertains very broad and liberal views.

E. J. DAULTON. The name of Daulton is a well-known one among paper manufacturers, both in England and America, and E. J. Daulton,

superintendent of the Crown Paper Company's mill at Oregon City, and whose name is known over the whole of Clackamas county, has main- tained, and even added to, the well-established family distinction. In Kent county, England, where he was born October 22, 1848. his father. James Daulton, had been a paper manufacturer for many years, and nine months after the birth of his son removed to Lawrence, Mass., where he manufactured paper for the remainder of his life. His wife, formerly Sarah Willmott, was also a native of England, and she, too, died in Massa- chusetts, having reared to maturity four sons and three daughters, of whom E. J., the second oldest, and two daughters are now living. The oldest son, John, served during the Civil war in the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, was wounded during the service, and died soon after the termination of hostilities.

The youth of Mr. Daulton was characterized by an earnest endeavor to earn his own living, and thereby assist with the maintenance of his father's family. Such early education as he re- ceived was at the public schools, a privilege nec- essarily uncertain, for at the age of ten he began to work in a paper mill at Lee, Mass. Earnest and conscientious, he began at the bottom and forged his way through every department of paper making, and was eventually rewarded for his application by being appointed superintendent for George West, at Ballston, N. Y. For eleven vears he discharged this important responsibility, in the meantime continually studying the possi- bilities of paper manufacture, and laying plans for a future spent in perfecting the system al- ready devised. For about a year Mr. Daulton was with the Newton Falls Paper Company, for whom he constructed a new mill. after which he lived for a year in Watertown before becoming superintendent for the Brownville Paper Com- pany. From the latter position he resigned to become superintendent of the Crown Paper Com- pany, a position which he has maintained since December, 1898.

Through his marriage in Ballston. N. Y., with Hattie Seaman, a native of that town, four chil- dren have been born into the family of Mr. Daul- ton, viz .: Susan, now Mrs. Fred Shannon, of Ballston, N. Y. ; Helen ; Bessie ; and Edna. Fra- ternally Mr. Daulton is both popular and well known, and is identified with Franklin Lodge No. 90. F. & A. M .. of Ballston. N. Y .: Warren Chapter No. 23. R. A. M., of Ballston ; Washing- ton Commandery No. 33. Saratoga Springs, N. Y. ; and Oriental Temple, N. M. S., of Troy. N. Y. In political affiliation Mr. Daulton is a Re- publican, but aside from the formality of casting his vote has not been heard of in political under- takings. He enjoys to an exceptional degree the confidence and good will of all who are asso-

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ciated with him in whatsoever capacity, and as an expert in the manufacture of paper he has no rivals and few equals on the coast.

A. J. GILL. Among machinists and manu- facturing engineers in Portland A. J. Gill occu- pies an altogether enviable place, and has un- (loubtedly had as many opportunities to enlarge his knowledge of his chosen work as falls to the lot of the most enthusiastic. A native of Devon- shire, England, he was born April 26, 1856, his father, George, and his grandfather, James Gill, being natives of the same part of the country. The family was first represented in America by James Gill, an uncle of A. J. Gill, who settled in Cleveland and there died. George Gill brought his family to America in 1857, later settling in Cleveland, where he followed his trade of black- smith, in time becoming foreman of the Cleve- land Rolling Mill Company. His death occurred in Cleveland at the age of sixty-six years, his wife, who was formerly Mary Ann Hamley, daughter of Thomas Hamley, dying in the same town. Of the five daughters and four sons born to this couple one daughter is deceased, A. J. be- ing the fourth oldest, and the only one on the Pacific coast.

Prior to his fourteenth birthday A. J. Gill at- tended the public schools of Cleveland, and then was apprenticed as blacksmith in the Cleveland Rolling Mills, of which his father was foreman. At the expiration of three years he served an- other apprenticeship of three years as machinist in the same mills. He then became associated with the H. P. Nail Company, and while with them had a most complete training in machine building, especially wire nail machinery, which lie learned from beginning to end and became most expert in all its departments. He had the advantage of working for the first and largest steel works in the United States, and there is practically nothing about steel construction which lie does not understand. Eventually he became night foreman of the H. P. Nail Company, and held this responsible position until coming to Oregon in August, 1890.

In Portland Mr. Gill found employment with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company as machinist, and after being thus employed for four years opened a small shop of his own on Third street, where he repaired printing presses. Business grew apace, and in time he was obliged to move into his present quarters at No. 82 Sec- ond street. and Nos. 230-32 Oak street, the for- mer of which contains the blacksmith shop, and the latter the machine shop. He has the most modern implements procurable, and his ma- chine shop is fitted with gas engines and auto- matic grinding machine, the latter of which is of

his own construction and is the only one on the coast. He turns out many different kinds of machinery, including printing presses and gas engines, and employs twelve hands. Aside from his work Mr. Gill is well known in the city of Portland, where he is a member of the Foresters and Woodmen of the World, and where he is known as a stanch upholder of Republican issues.

In Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Gill married Edith King, who was born and educated in Ohio, a daughter of James King. Mr. King was born in England and became a successful blacksmith in Ohio, from which state he removed to Oregon in 1888, where his death eventually occurred. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gill, of whom William is an inventor and ma- chinist, and among his other patents may be mentioned an automatic feeder for gas engines, and an automatic switch for slot machines, the right of which he disposed of to a New York firm. William Gill is now his father's partner, and inherits much of the ability and inventive genius of the latter. Stella, Mrs. Fleming, is a resident of Portland; and the other children are named Ethel Lenore, Mary Edith, Albert Ed- ward, and Roland.

JOHN J. KADDERLY. For more than a quarter of a century the name of John J. Kad- derly has been associated with the hardware in- terests of Portland, and at the present time he is at the head of one of the most extensive and suc- cessful enterprises of the kind in the Northwest. His career is a striking illustration of what may be accomplished by a man of energy and enter- prise in a country of such resources as afforded by the Pacific coast. In his youth he was de- prived of his father's counsel and assistance by reason of the death of the latter, and he has been, in every particular, the architect of his own fortunes, a self-made man in the best sense of the term

The Kadderly family was founded in America by Jacob Kadderly, paternal grandfather of John J., who came from Canton Berne, Switzerland, located in Ohio, where he purchased and im- proved a large farm. Subsequently he removed to Green county, Wis., where he spent the re- mainder of his life. His son, Jacob, father of the subject of this sketch, was also born in Switzer- land, and was eleven years of age when his father brought the family to America. Upon attaining

maturity he left the farm in Ohio and removed to Green county, Wis., where he pre-empted three hundred and twenty-two acres of raw land ten miles north of Monroe, upon which he lived and prospered for many years. He became a man of prominence and influence in his locality, filled many local offices of trust, and was chiefly instru-

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mental in securing admirable school advantages for the children of Green county. He married Barbara Baker, also a native of Switzerland, and a daughter of Jacob Baker, who carried on farming in Wisconsin while that state was yet a territory. Mr. Baker was one of the members of the New Glarus Colony in Green county, so named from the canton of that name in Switzer- land, to which his ancestors owed allegiance. He came to Oregon in 1872, locating in Washington county, seven miles from Portland, where he died at the age of seventy-two years. The family. in all branches, were devoted adherents of the Lutheran faith, and liberal contributors of their time and money to the upbuilding of that denom- ination. Mrs. Kadderly, who died in Portland. was the mother. of six sons, four of whom are living. Al is engaged in the grocery business in Portland : Charles is engaged in the hardware business with his brother, John J. ; and Henry is in the employ of S. P. Ashland. Jacob, who came to Oregon in 1876, died in this city at the age of twenty years.

John J. Kadderly was born in Washington township, Green county, Wis., June 22, 1854. He was reared on the farm, receiving such education as the local country schools afforded. At the age of fifteen years, very soon after the death of his father, he left home and began the battle for independence. At Monroe, Wis., he found his first regular employment with Ziegler & Gregory, liverymen, with whom he spent two years. This work not being to his taste, he entered the soda water manufacturing establishment of I. E. Eaton, and there served an apprenticeship of two years. He then entered the tinshop of Charles French with whom he remained for three years. He then bought out his employer, and for three years continued the business inde- pendently. In September. 1878. he came to Port- land, and soon afterward established a stove and tinware store on Union avenue, near Stark street. a year later moving to more commodious quarters on Union avenne, between Pine and Oak streets. For six years he conducted a hardware business on the corner of Pine and Union streets, remov- ing thence to Oak and Union, where he was located for sixteen years. During this time his trade increased rapidly. The store he occupied in the Cully block was one of the most modern in appointment. and he owned a half interest in the building, which was fifty feet by one hundred feet in ground dimensions, and had two stories. The warehouses on Grand avenue were fifty by ninety feet in ground dimensions, and had three floors. This enterprise became known as one of the largest and most successful retail hardware concerns in the west. and had a wide reputation for fair dealing and progressive business methods In 1899 the interests of the concern were shifted

to 141-143 First street, the business at that time being located in a building of two stories fifty by one hundred feet in dimensions. The stock includes everything in the hardware and tinware line, embracing stoves, furnaces and ranges made by the Universal and the MaGee & Fox Manu- facturing Companies. The business extends not only through the coast region, but into surround- ing states. Mr. Kadderly's many years of prac- tical experience have placed him in the front ranks of the mercantile world in the northwest, and entitle him to the great credit due all suc- cessful pioneer undertakings. He has established a most admirable reputation as a business man, and is highly regarded for his many estimable personal qualities, his public spirit. and the broad view he takes of affairs in general. He allows no opportunity to pass which enables him to assist materially in the promotion of those movements calculated to advance the best interests of Port- land and Oregon, and the constant exercise of this thoughtful spirit on his part has been no mean factor in the upbuilding of the metropolis of this state. He is a member of the Portland Board of Trade, and in political affiliations is a Republican. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he became a member in Monroe, Wis., in 1876, and at the present time is identified with Orient Lodge No. 17, in Portland. He is also a charter member of Orient Encampment. and a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World.

In Wisconsin, in 1878, Mr. Kadderly was united in marriage with Catherine Welter, a native of Green county, Wis., and a daughter of Edward Welter, who was born in France and be- came a pioneer settler of Wisconsin. Mrs. Kad- derly's mother was descended from an old English family which was represented among the early settlers of New England. To Mr. and Mrs. Kadderly two sons have been born. George J., the oldest, a graduate of Leland Stanford Uni- versity, is with his father in business; and Her- bert, the youngest, resides at home.

CLARENCE WILTON HODSON was born at Munice, Ind., October 20, 1860. His ancestors were of sterling old Quaker stock. originally from England, who settled in the new world in the North Carolina country. From there they removed to Ohio, where his father, Asa H. Hod- son, was born in 1830. The early manhood of the father was spent in Indiana, where the fam- ily moved in the early days of the immigration of the pioneers in that section. The father married Margaret M. Hogan, also a native of Ohio, in 1856. Their family consisted of three sons, the eldest, Orlando O. Hodson, a successful mer-

Captain Sherman V. Shast

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chant of McMinnville, Ore ; the second, Clarence W. Hodson, general manager of The Irwin-Hod- son Company of Portland, Ore., the largest bank and county supply house in the west ; and Charles M. Hodson, a musical professor residing at Se- attle, Wash.

Owing to a series of financial misfortunes the father was unable to give to the sons as many advantages in an educational way as was de- sirable, but the subject of this sketch, being of a studious nature, by means of persistent effort, secured his graduation from the high school of his native city. This was accomplished, how- ever, through numerous hardships and discour- agements. Immediately after the close of his last school year he entered the office of The W'in- chester Journal, published at Winchester, Ind., where he served his apprenticeship as a printer and laid the foundation for his future success in his chosen profession.

Mr. Hodson came to Oregon in May, 1881, locating at Portland, where he followed his trade as a job compositor in the establishment of George H. Himes. Later he accepted a position as foreman of the printing department of The Wl'est Shore, an illustrated weekly paper formerly published in Portland, which position he held until the publishing company failed in business, when he was by order of court appointed re- ceiver of the concern and wound up its affairs. Later he purchased the plant of the defunct com- pany, and with that as a nucleus began the job printing business on his own account in 1891. His thorough knowledge of all the details of the business at once placed him in touch with the best class of trade in the city. Two years later he entered the corporation of Ben C. Irwin & Co., the name of which was changed to The Ir- win-Hodson Company. The extended scope of the business of this company gave him oppor- tunity for the exercise of his talents, of which he promptly availed himself. He was fortunate also in his associates, as each was, like himself, pos- sessed of a thorough knowledge of the business. With such a combination success was inevitable, and today the name of the company is favorably known throughout the entire Pacific coast. Mr. Hodson was married October 18, 1883, to Miss Ida B. Teal, at Winchester, Ind. They have one son.

In politics Mr. Hodson has always been a Re- publican. He was born at a time when the greatest question which ever confronted any na- tion on earth was under discussion, and was reared in one of what was then known as the border states, where political feeling ran very high. The old Quaker instinct of fairness and equality to all men was instilled into him, and as a consequence he has never swerved from the principles of the party which came into exist-

ence by reason of the conflict which at that time raged over the great question of human liberty. While always taking an active interest in political affairs, Mr. Hodson never held public office until elected a member of the Oregon legislative as- sembly in June, 1902. While the legislature was in session in 1903 Mayor George H. Williams appointed him as one of the members of the civil service commission of the city of Portland. This appointment, coming from one so eminent as the chief executive of the city of Portland, was in itself a very high compliment. While Mr. Hodson has always been a strict party man, he has always been arrayed on the side of honesty and morality, and against all corruption and dis- honest administration.

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Portrait and biographical record of Portland and vicinity, Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 89

Author: Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 946

Author:
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 946