Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Herbert J. 1881 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 498 - 499
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     HERBERT J. ANDERSON, of Portland, has achieved success in the lumber 
industry and his musical talent has made him a prominent figure in the 
cultural life of the city. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was born in 
1881, a son of Charles A. and Emily (Johnson) Anderson, who are deceased. He 
attended the public schools of the Flour city and at the age of eleven, when 
his father passed away, became a wage earner, acquiring his first knowledge of 
commercial affairs with the C. A. Smith Lumber Company, a former Minneapolis 
firm. For six years he remained with the company and on the completion of his 
high school course went to Lindsborg, Kansas, entering Bethany College, in 
which he had been given a scholarship by his employer, Mr. Smith. For three 
years Mr. Anderson was a student at that institution and during the summer 
months sold lumber on the road. His course included vocal and instrumental 
lessons and one summer the college quartette, of which he was a member, gave 
thirty-nine concerts in forty days. That was a strenuous season for Mr. 
Anderson, who sold lumber during the day and appeared on the concert stage at 
night. While attending college he was a lumber salesman during the winter as 
well as the summer and secured many orders in the Swedish settlements, owing 
to his knowledge of the language. While on a concert tour he was driving a 
team of mules, being accompanied by the college quartette. One of the traces 
broke and the team ran away and could only be stopped by steering the mules 
into an embankment. The wagon was wrecked but Mr. Anderson managed to save his 
violincello. This instrument he had mastered while a college student and also 
had developed a fine tenor voice. In 1906 he went to the state of Washington 
and for two years was manager of three sawmills at Newport. On the expiration 
of that period he located in Spokane, Washington, and from 1908 until 1912 was 
engaged in the wholesale lumber business in that city. He has since followed 
the same line of activity in Portland and is president of the H. J. Anderson 
Lumber Company, Inc. The firm handles cedar poles and other specialties and 
makes shipments to many parts of the country. Mr. Anderson is thoroughly 
conversant with the various phases of the lumber industry, with which he has 
been identified for more than three decades, and controls a large business, 
which has resulted from carefully matured plans and wise management.

     In 1907 Mr. Anderson married Miss Alice E. Thompson, of Wisconsin, and to 
this union has been born a daughter, Elizabeth Jane. Mr. Anderson is vice 
president of the Apollo Club, of which he was formerly president, and has 
contributed materially toward Portland's prestige as a musical center. He is 
also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and the Chamber of 
Commerce. Along fraternal lines he is connected with the Masonic order and his 
political allegiance is given to the republican party. Throughout life he has 
been a tireless worker, never losing sight of his objective, and the qualities 
to which he owes his success are such as constitute the basis of all honorable 
and desirable prosperity.

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