Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Ainge, Hal Darney 1881 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 583 - 584
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     HAL DARNEY AINGE is secretary and treasurer of the P. T. Ainge Company, 
manufacturers of bank fixtures and furnishings, and many of the leading 
banking rooms of the northwest evidence the high quality of service rendered 
by this corporation, which was established on December 3, 1920, by Peter T. 
Ainge, president; H. W. Fredericks, vice president, and H. D. Ainge, secretary 
and treasurer. Its plant, which is located at North Twenty-ninth and Nicolai 
streets, Portland, comprises a two-story building, one hundred and fifty feet 
by two hundred feet, which in every respect is modern in its equipment. The 
company specializes in high grade cabinet work for banks, about ninety per 
cent of which is made of walnut and Honduras mahogany. They keep a corps of 
expert engineers to designing bank interiors and exteriors, practically all of 
their work being done to order. They do practically everything in the way of 
furnishing a bank, including the marble, bronze, woodwork, floor covering, 
draperies, decorations, lighting fixtures and furniture, and even design and 
construct the buildings, when requested, also remodeling old buildings. They 
made the furniture for the Masonic temple and the Heathman Hotel and among the 
banks which they have furnished are the following: United States National 
Bank, West Coast National Bank, Portland National Bank and Union Avenue Bank, 
all of Portland; First National Bank and Bank of Commerce, Salem; Seattle 
Title and Trust Company and Peoples Bank, both of Seattle, Washington; First 
National Bank, Longview, Washington; Puget Sound Bank, Tacoma, Washington; 
Deer Lodge Bank and Trust Company, Deer Lodge, Montana; Lumberman's Bank and 
Trust Company, Longview; Jackson City Bank, Medford, Oregon; United States 
National Bank, Eugene, Oregon; First National Bank, Kent, Washington; 
Washington Exchange Bank, Vancouver, Washington; Inland Empire Bank, 
Pendleton, Oregon; Commercial Bank, at Yakima, Washington; Bank of Mt. Shasta, 
at Suisun, California, and about one hundred and fifty others throughout the 
northwest. The company has sold goods to the value of over three million 
dollars since it was established and has won a high reputation for the 
superior quality of everything which it handles. It employs from forty to 
fifty men in its shop and from ten to fifteen men on the outside, all of whom 
are skilled in their special lines of work. Two designing engineers are kept 
constantly busy in the office on new work, besides which a regular office 
force is maintained.

     Hal D. Ainge was born in England in 1881, a son of W. E. and Susan 
(Taylor) Ainge, the latter of whom was a daughter of the late Joseph Dearnley 
Taylor, who became president of the Halifax Building and Loan Association, now 
the largest organization of its kind in the world. W. E. Ainge brought his 
family to America in 1884, locating in Canada, and for a number of years 
served as a certified accountant in Toronto. Later he moved to Virginia, where 
he became the executive head of the Chadwick Two-Wheeler Company, which was 
later absorbed by the Southern Carriage Works, of which also he became the 
head, the plant being located at Salem. Subsequently he went to Youngstown, 
Ohio, as auditor of the Ohio Steel Company, which later was merged with the 
Republic Iron and Steel Company. He then went to Jamestown, New York, as 
accountant and statistician to incorporate the Art Metal Construction Company, 
and on the completion of that work he returned to Youngstown, where he has 
since served as a certified public accountant, representing a number of 
leading firms and corporations. His son, Peter T. Ainge, was born in Ontario, 
Canada, where he lived until 1908, when he came to Portland as a salesman, and 
in 1920, became the prime mover in the organization of the P. T. Ainge 
Company, of which he is president.

     Hal D. Ainge received a good public school education and is a veteran of 
the World war, in which he held a commission as captain in the Quartermaster 
Division. In Masonry he has attained the Knight Templar degree of the York 
rite and the thirty-second degree of the Scottish rite and is a Noble of the 
Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Elks Club. A man of sound business 
judgment and a tireless worker, he has been a large factor in the success of 
his company and commands the uniform confidence and respect of all who know 
him.

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