The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 09, 1923, Page 12, Image 12

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Here we bare another one of
the few real dirt farmers who are
members of the Oregon legisla
ture this year. '
Mr. Ezell is one of the three
representatives elected from' the
largest legislative district (in
area) in the United States, com
prising ; five counties any one of
REP. J. M. EZELL.
Klamath Falls, Republican; Rep
resentative, 1923, 21st Dist.,
Crook,' Deschutes, Jefferson,
Klamath . a n d L a k e counties.
rrmpr. TTnlntnin hriteHAr. - '.
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Is' as large as one small
eastern
i state. Born 1884. on a
farm in Nevada; common school,
high school and university edu
cation, there;; also the two years
1 n Reno law office ; married at
2 a and. with brothers purchased
four - hundred irrigated . acres in
the Klamath basin and at once
started farming it; is president of
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the company known, as Ezell
" ; Stock farm; specialize in breeding
i i and sale of purebred Holsteins;
If has two boys, 10 and 12; has tak
en active part as taxpayer and
: ' public spirited citizen in political
" ' and community affairs ' of Klam-
( atn county; n as faculty 01 man-
jdk larmer viewpoint ciear: ex
' pected to have
J.on legislation.
strong influence
D. E. FLETCHER
D. E. Fletcher was born on a
farm, - In the State of Missouri,
January 8th, 1875, and spent
enough years on the farm to ac
quire an Insight Into - farming,
farming people and their prob
lems; for six years he attended
.Missouri : Valley college.' and came
to the coast country in 1898, and
engaged In the banking business
REP. D. E. FLETCHER
Independence,. Republican;- Rep
resentative, 1921, 12th Dist., Lin
coln and, Polk counties; Repre
sentative, 1923. llta Dist., polk
county. Attorney. ' ,
. 1 n . the state of - Washington for
eight years. Law appealed to him
so strongly that he forsook his
banking career, and graduated
from "the Willamette College 1 of
Law, Salem, Oregon, In 1915, and
has been practicing his profession
in Independence, Oregon, where
he has always been activf in all
welfare movements. .He wag rep
resentative during the 1921 ses
sion of the Oregon legislature, but
this time felt that he would rather
represent his home county, that
of Polk, and no doubt that we
will hear many favorable reports
from him during the coming ses
sion of the legislature.
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it. A. FORD
"Father of the John Day High
way", is the title which some day
may be bestowed upon Represen
tative Ford in recognition of the
part be played in securing desig
nations of that route and finances
for its construction.; As president
of the Grant County Good Roads
association in 1916 and vice pres
ident of the Oregon Roads and
Development association from
19.17 on, Mr. Ford played a con
tinuously active part before the
legislature, the highway commis
sion, and also the people of the
counties now traversed by that
highway. .Mr. Ford probably
would vote to place the honor of
original paternity upon ex-Repre-
REPRESENTATIVE R. A. FORD
Dayvllle. Republican; represen
tative, 1923,' 27th district. Grant
and Harney counties. Former
County Superintendent Crook
county. Farmer and stockman.
sentative James S. Stewart, who
might properly be called the
grandfather. Both of them
haunted road meetings, told of the
scenic wonders that would be
opened up and the agricultural re
sources for which an putlet would
be provided.
Mr. Ford is a stockman and
farmer whose home-ranch is more
remote from the state capitol than
the domicile of amy other member.
Dayvllle Is a tiny community
farther from railway connection
than the postoffice of any other
representative or senator.
Born Tennessee: grew to mah
hoood In Missouri where served
four years as county clerk of Bar
ton county; came to Oregon 1890;
lived at Eugene; went to eastern
Oregon 1902;" superintendent of
Priheville schools four years;
county superintendent , of old
Crook county five years; removed
to Grant county 1913. Active In
private and public life In every
movement for the promotion of
the public welfare.
STERLING H. GOIX
Representative Goin is another
one of the few real dirt farmers.
He was born and raised In Linn
county on the farm where he now
resides, near Greene's bridge on
the Jefferson-Scio road, (In the
"Forks of the Santiam"). His
father settled on this farm in
1864, buying a settler's right. Ed-
REP. STERLING H. COIN
Jefferson, Democrat; representa
tive. 1923. 2nd district, Linn
county. Farmer.
ucated in the public schools and
the old Jefferson institute; fol
lowed farming, dairying and
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OLDEST AND LARGEST
IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY
For more than half a century this bank has rendered capable
efficient service
TO THE PUBLIC
Safe commercial banking, with modern equipment, unexcelled
cilities, able and progressive1 management
1.ADD & BUSH
BANKERS
stock raising all of his life,-with
the exception of five or six years
in the employ of a Sacramento
fruit and produce company; has
a wife and two daughters, all born
in Linn county.
He has made his farm a pay
ing successenjoying a fine repu
tation in the neighborhood where
he grew up; participated actively
and intelligently in public affairs;
an unusually competent man who
is determined to secure some tax
relief and to some extent, put the
brakes on public expenditure.
HERBERT GORDON
Few men of his age he is only
48 have accomplished more in
substantial benefit for the com
munities In which they reside than
has Herbert Gordon for Eugene
and Portland. A native of Canada,
brought by bis parents to a farm
near Eugene, he got a start in
business there by buying a stream
woodsaw with money he earned
as a boy pitching in the harvest
field. He sawed wood for Etfgene
residents, getting some high
school education in between.
Helped his parents and finally got
his start in the retail furniture
REPRESENTATIVE HERBERT
GORDON '
Gordon building, Portland. Repub
lican; representative 1917-19-21
23, 18th district, Multnomah
county. President Lawyers' Title
& 1 Trust company, apartment
house and dwelling builder and
owner; former merchant.
business. - A fine brick business
block was built by him to house
his growing enterprise. He also
did other building in Eugene,
keeping his money busy or rath
er, his credit in a manner that
gave much employment to labor
and provided improvements for
his home town.
In 1907, he cashed in on his
Eugene business and investments
and went to Portland with' 845,
000 real money, buying a con
trolling interest in the Lawyer's
Title & Trust company, which he
still operates as president and
principal owner. His main bus
iness activity in Portland, how
ever, has been the erection of
dwellings and apartment houses.
Nearly all the time he has had
as many as i)iteen or twenty
structures under construction and
on his hands pending sale. This
involved obtaining large amounts
of capital and he used his credit,
with property aB he acquired it,
to the extent that very often he
was operating with several hun
dred thousand dollars of borrowed
money at a time. As rapidly as he
neared the completion or sale of
one structure, he bought lots and
started new buildings.
He was one of the few Portland
builders who had sufficient faith
in Portland and himself to keep
on building all through the slow
times prior to the war activity.
He kept his borrowed .dollars so
busy that he seldom caught sight
of a dollar of his own. During
the post-war depression, he kept
up these activities, including the
construction of a down-town. bus
iness block at a time when no one
else dared built it. To get capi
tal he often went to Seattle, San
Francisco and eastern centers.
Obstacles which would have
worried almost any capitalist in
to utter ruin were constantly sur
mounted by him with a courage
and resourcefulness tht were stu
pendous. Almost hy one else
would , have at least tried to cash
in ionce in a while, but Gordon
always anticipated the possibility
of cashing in by taking on still
more new obligations and building
more buildings, keeping himself
heavily Involved but all the time
providing employment for' labor
and Improvements for Portland.
The Rose City is dotted with
apartment houses and residence
buildings erected by him.
With all this he has 'been ' ex
ceedingly active in publicaffairs.
Civic matters constantly claim a
considerable amount of his time
He served in three regular and
three special legislature sessions
prior to this one and spent several
months campaigning for mayor on
the high tax issue, mainly for the
purpose of getting tax facts be'
fore thee public. As a legislator,
he was one of the busiest, usually
serving as chairman of ways and
means. In spite of this incessant
activity he always manages to
wear a smile. He does not im
pugn the motives of others, but
is not imposed upon. Active in
church affairs; a consistent pro
hibitionist; a stalwart champion
of child welfare legislation; has
been a powerful factor in building
up "the University of Oregon.
LOYAL M. GRAHAM
Few men have figured more in
the actual wording' of road legis
lation on the statute books of Ore
gon than Representative Graham.
Born in Butler county, Penn.,
1860; removed with parents to
Delaware county, Iowa; attended
country school and farmed during
his youth; removed to Rock Is
land, 111.; attended school at Mi
lan, 111.; graduated from high
school at Hopkinton, 'Iowa, and
REPRESENTATIVE
GRAHAM
L. M.
Forest Grove, Republican; repre
sentative, 1923, 15th 'district,
Washington county. Former state
senator, Nebraska. Former coun
ty attorney, Nebraska, two terms.
City attorney Forest Grove five
years. Lawyer.
from classical course at Lenox
College, Iowa, 1884, when re
moved to Nebraska; taught school,
farmed, studied law, was admitted
to the bar, and elected to the of
fice of county attorney of Fron
tier county, 1889; served several
terms; elected state senator,
serving on important committees;
chairman of committee on univer
sities; removed to Oregon 1911;
elected tto the legislature 1918;
drafted the first $10,000,00.0
bonding bill, the gasoline bill and
the second $10,000,000 bonding
bill. Saved- the soldiers' educa
tional bill from defeat after the
adverse report of the committee to
whom thei bill had been referred.
and got the bill sent back to the
committee and so amended that it
became a law; member of school
board; vice-president Commercial
club; vice-president and treasurer
State Land Settlement commis
sion; Odd Fellow, Modern Wood
man, 32 degree Mason; on com
mittee to buiM the new Masonic
and Eastern Star home at Forest
Grove; member jurisprudence
committee. Masons Grand lodge
of Oregon; three daughters, two
sons; one son at btate school or
Mines, Colorado; one daughter at
State university, Eugene; one
daughter teaches. Enterprise; one
daughter bookkeeper for local
cannery company; youngest Bon
at school, Forest Grove.
PHILIP HAMMOND
In the last legislature Represen
tative Hammond figured promi
nently In soldier legislation and
proved an all round valuable and
influential member. ;
Born, 1890, Seneca, 111.; Clack
amas county, 1898; University of
Oregon, 1908-12;, enlisted in
World war, 1917; discharged as
second lieutenant, 1918; admit-
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I HAMMOND
Oregon City, Republican; repre
sentative, 1921-23, 16th district,
Clackamas county. Attorney.
ted to bar and practicing law since
in Oregon City; Mason. Elk, Odd
Fellow; unmarried; firnt presi
dent of Willamette Falls Post,
American Legion.
L. M. HESSE
Here's another one of the real
dirt farmers of the 1923 session,
and a very successful one at that.
REP. L. M. HESSE
Beaverton, Republican; represen
tative, 923, 15th district, Wash
ington county. Farmer.
Operates a 200-acre dairy ranch
near Scholls in Washington coun
ty. Incidentally his family works
with him; none; believe in loaf
ing. Also, none believes that
drudgery! alone is the end and
object oi farm Hie, Hesse has In
stalled m o d e r n improvements
throughout the place, actually in
eluding the house as well as
barns, outbuildings, fences and
drainage; has his . " own electric
lighting plant. Mixes in commun
ity affairs as a live- wire; has the
iauuy or worKing witn otner
people and is likely to be influen
tial in securing reasonable legis
lation intended to improve agri
cultural conditions and relieve
tax burdens. !
A. R. HUNTER
Hepresentative Hunter is na
tionally celebrated as a .. success
iul horse breeder. He is a fine
type of j substantial citizen for the
legislature, ana Republicans of
his home county recognize it, for
they decline to place anyone in
nomination against him.
Born 1873, Island City, near
his present farm home;! educated
REP. A. R. HUNTER
Island City, Democrat, represen
tative. 1919-21-23, 25th district.
Union county.. Farmer, stock
raiser.
Portland, where he was in mer
cantile business until 1907, when
entered farming and stock' raising
business in Union county, be
coming: largest breeder of Per
cherons in Oregon; secretary Is
land City Milling & .Mercantile
company: president Union County
Farm Bureau;, director "La Grande
Ad Club. YMCA, and Country
club; director several private
buriness enterprises; active in
war work; active in Union coun
ty road bond campaign.
CHARLES A. HUNTER
: The largest pure-bred Hereford
breeder In the west. Is with ua In
1923. 'Like his colleague and re
PWted - relative, Representative
Hunter has attained national rep
utation in livestock circles. He
has one of the finest ranch prop
erties In Wallowa 'county as' the
central headquarters for his
blooded whltefaces, and is one of
the county's largest taxpayers.
He is a substantial citizen In the
best ficnse and Is a distinct ac
quisition to the general assembly.
Born 1876v Island City. Oregon;
graduated Gem City Business Col
lege, Qulncy, 111.; moved to Wal
lowa, 1896; in general merchan
dise business 12 years: livestock
biisInesB ever since; has Interests
in timber and lumbering; his
ranch on Wallowa river, near the
juncture with the Grande Ronde,
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REP. CHARLES A. HUNTER
Wallowa, Republican, representa
tive, 1923, , 2 4th district. Union
and Wallowa counties. Farmer,
stockman.
is one of the most picturesque In
Oregon and is a show place for all
visiting Wallowa county "The
Switzerland of Oregon." Unlike
Arthur. Charles A. is a Republi
can; between tnem tney comprise
the best element in both parties
E. X..IIURD
His legislative -experience is not
confined to Oregon; he was offi
cially connected with the Wlscon
sin legislature in 1895 and 1897,
when his father, F. E. Hurd, was
an influential -member.
Born 1876, New Lisbon, Wis
public school education; eleven
years conducted weekly newspa
per there; city treasurer, ten
REP. E. N. HURD
Seaside, Republican; Representa
tive, 1919-21-23, 19th Dist., Clat
sop, county. Mayor Seaside;
chairman union high school dis
trict; former councilman. Editor,
publisher. i .
years and county police magis
trate; school clerk nine years;
came to .' Oregon 1899; pur
chased the Seaside Signal; also
established a job printing plant
at Astoria; in Seaside has been
councilman, mayor, two terms.
member water commission; chair
man of the union high school df&f
trlct. Married; three sons; Pres-1
byterian; active in patriotic1
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Having graduated fajciafarm
ing, and once having been a
banker. Representative! HurlbuTt
can no longer.be classified asia
real dirt farmer, but:,h icnade
enougn or a Dig success .in east
ern Oregon farming that , he-ia
qualified to associate -with dirt
farmers as well as with, bankers.
business men and members .of
other honorable callings.' He, 1a
now a considerable property own
er in Portland, besides operating
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403 Front St., Portland. Republi
can; Representative, 1923,'- 18th
Dist.. Multnomah county.' 1 Bread
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Salem's Telajraph Florist
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commercial bakery which man-
ufactures "Blue Stem" bread.
Born Rosohure, Oregon, 1879 ;
when six years . iid ' moved with
parents to Gilliam county: - In
public Bchool at Arlington; grad
uated from Portland; Business col
lege, v 1900; engaged in placer
mining. Alaska; until 1904; In
Eastern Oregon bank in Shahtko
until 1908; until 1917,. was- in
general farming ' fa .'eastern Ore
gon ;' sold but to Acquire Portland
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