Multnomah-Douglas-Wasco County OR Archives Biographies.....Bashford, Elmer L. 1873 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 392 - 393
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     ELMER L. BASHFORD, one of Oregon's well known flour and feed mill men, 
has been engaged in this line of business for over thirty years and is now 
president of the Triangle Mills, Inc., of Portland. He was born in Grundy 
county, Iowa, in 1873 and is a son of George W. and Emma Jane (Thompson) 
Bashford. His father was a farmer and in 1889 came to the coast, locating in 
Medford, Oregon, where he engaged in the lumber business as a retail dealer 
and in farming. He also became extensively interested in the flour mill 
business, in which he continued to the time of his death. He is survived by 
his widow, who now resides in Portland, at the age of eighty years. Elmer L. 
Bashford received a good education in the public schools of Iowa and Oregon 
and then entered the employ of his father, working in a clerical capacity at 
the lumber yard. In June, 1897, he entered into partnership with his father 
and bought the flour mill at Roseburg, known as the Rose & Flook New Era Flour 
Mill. This mill was run by water power, which power was sold to one of two 
electric companies at Roseburg and the mill was moved uptown. Three years 
later, or in 1900, the present mill was established and was then called the 
Douglas County Flour Mill. In 1907 he and his father built the Vancouver Flour 
Mills, which they operated until 1912, when they sold. Two years later they 
bought back the mills and ran them until 1917, when again they sold out and, 
going to The Dalles, bought the Diamond Flour Mills, in connection with Kerr, 
Gifford & Company. Elmer L. Bashford became manager of this property, which 
position he held until 1924, when he sold his interest and came to Portland, 
joining with two partners in establishing and incorporating the Triangle 
Mills, at 175 Tillamook street, which began business February 18, 1924. The 
plant, which is from one to three stories high, with basement, is one hundred 
and sixty by one hundred and fifty feet in size, and is modern and up-to-date 
in its arrangement and equipment. They are engaged in the manufacture of dairy 
and poultry foods, for which they have a productive capacity of from fifty to 
seventy-five tons every twenty-four hours, the products being sold all over 
Oregon and southern Washington. The company employs from ten to fifteen men 
and is enjoying a large and steadily growing business. The officers of 
Triangle Mills, Inc., are as follows: Elmer L. Bashford, president; Marion T. 
Bashford, vice president; and Albert W. Bashford, secretary and treasurer. Mr. 
Bashford is devoting his attention closely to the business, in the management 
of which he has shown marked executive ability, and he is also the owner of 
the Douglas County Flour Mill, which his father formerly owned and in which he 
gained his first milling experience.

     On October 27, 1897, Mr. Bashford was united in marriage to Mrs. Marion 
T. (Carson) Cook, of Eugene, Oregon, and they are the parents of a son, Albert 
W., who graduated from the Jefferson high school of Portland, and from 
business college, and is now manager of the Douglas County Flour Mill. He was 
employed in shipyards during the late war. He is married and has two sons. Mr. 
Bashford is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World, 
the Portland Automobile Club and the Chamber of Commerce. In his political 
views he is a stanch republican and has shown an active interest in matters 
relating to the progress of his city and the advancement of the public 
welfare. He is a man of energetic and enterprising methods, honorable in every 
relation of life and all who know him hold him in the highest regard.

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