Clackamas County OR Archives Biographies.....Eid, John 1871 - 
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     JOHN EID.  As the executive head of a large mercantile house John Eid 
exerts a strong and beneficial influence in business circles of Canby and is 
also a recognized leader in civic affairs. His birth occurred in Becker 
county, Minnesota, in 1871. His father, Christopher Eid, has passed away, but 
is survived by the mother, Mrs. Inger Eid, who lives in North Dakota.

     John Eid was reared in his native state, and the school which he attended 
was three miles distant from his home. He made the journey on foot and 
performed his share of the farm work, early acquiring habits of industry and 
thrift, to which he owes his success in later life. His first money was earned 
as a clerk and afterward he entered the Hawley State Bank, in which he was 
employed for six years, filling the positions of bookkeeper and assistant 
cashier. An expert accountant, he was elected auditor of Clay county, 
Minnesota, and served for eight years.

     On the expiration of that period Mr. Eid migrated to Oregon and in 1909 
located in Canby. In August, 1910, he purchased stock in the firm of Sandsness 
& Son and in December, 1911, the name was changed to the present style of the 
Canby Hardware & Implement Company. Mr. Eid is the dominant factor in the 
conduct of the business, in which his son Clarence and Wilmer Sandsness are 
partners. The store formerly occupied the ground on which the city hall now 
stands but since 1913 the business has been housed in the Odd Fellows 
building. The store room is sixty by one hundred feet in dimensions, and the 
basement affords ample storage room. The company carries a complete stock of 
shelf and heavy hardware and the John Deere and International Harvester lines 
of farm implements. This is the only hardware and implement concern in Canby, 
and in connection with the store there is a shop devoted to the sale of 
equipment used by plumbers and tinners. The business is efficiently managed, 
and its growth has paralleled that of the town and the surrounding district.

     In 1896 Mr. Eid married Miss Emma Tuft, who was born in Norway and was 
brought to the United States when a small child. To this union were born four 
children, all natives of Minnesota. Clarence Leonard, the eldest, was married 
in Portland to Miss Charlotte Bladorn, by whom he has two children, Clarence 
Herbert and June Charlotte. Melvin Ingvald, a druggist, married Miss Mabel 
Schmidt, and they make their home at Juneau, Alaska. Theodore R. is in the 
employ of the Standard Oil Company and lives in Canby. Norman, the youngest 
son, died in 1925 as the result of an automobile accident. The mother of these 
children passed away in 1915, and in 1918 Mr. Eid married Mrs. Mabel (Knight) 
Bair, a widow. She was born in Canby, in which town her parents settled in 
1860, experiencing many phases of pioneer life in Oregon. By her first husband 
she had a son, Gerald Bair, and to the second union has been born a daughter, 
Elizabeth Eid.

     While living in his native state Mr. Eid held a number of offices in the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and since coming to Oregon he has passed 
through the chairs of the Encampment. He is a York Rite Mason and a Noble of 
Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is past master of Champoeg Lodge, No. 
27, A. F. & A. M., of Canby, Oregon, and has served his lodge as secretary 
continuously for more than twelve years; and is also a past patron of Canby 
Chapter of the Eastern Star. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce he is 
cooperating in well defined plans for Canby's development, which he also 
furthered as a councilman, filling the office for several years. Mr. Eid is 
now serving as city treasurer and has faithfully discharged every trust 
reposed in him, thus winning and retaining the respect and confidence of his 
fellow citizens as well as the approval of his own conscience.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 554-555

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