Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Beall, John S. November 1866 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 606 - 607
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     JOHN S. BEALL.  The largest welded pipe and tank manufacturing concern in
the northwest is the Beall Pipe and Tank Corporation, of Portland, of which John
S. Beall is the founder and president. This industry has prospered because of
the superior quality of its products and is one of the outstanding industries of
the Columbia River valley. Mr. Beall was born in Georgia, in November, 1866, and
is a son of John L. and Elizabeth (Swift) Beall. The family moved to Texas in
1867 and there the father engaged in a mercantile business for a number of
years. Both parents are now deceased.

     John S. Beall received the advantage of a good public school education and
learned the harness and saddlemaker's trade. Later he became identified with the
agricultural implement business, entering the employ of the Parlin &
Orendendorff Company, of Canton, Ohio. In 1885 he came to Portland as the
representative of that concern and served as manager here until 1901. He then
engaged in the machinery business until 1905, when he organized the Beall Pipe
and Tank Corporation. The plant was first located at East Seventh and Main
streets, Portland, but in 1912 moved into its own building, at 85 Columbia
boulevard. The company has three and a half acres of ground, the buildings
covering two acres. The chief products of the plant are corrugated culverts,
electric arc welded pipe for cities and hydraulic and dredge work, and electric
welded tanks for all purposes. The company has seven traveling representatives
and the products are sold throughout the northwestern states. Seventy-five men,
most of whom are highly skilled mechanics, are employed in the factory, and the
annual business amounts to over one million dollars.

     In 1894 Mr. Beall was united in marriage to Miss Elma Chase, of Colfax,
Washington, and they are the parents of a son, Malcolm J., who graduated from
the Oregon Agricultural College and is now associated with his father in
business. Mr. Beall is a Knight Templar Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine,
and also a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent Protective Order of
Elks, the Columbia Country Club, the Kenton Commercial Club, of which he is
president, and the Portland Chamber of Commerce, in the activities of which he
is greatly interested. He gives his political support to the republican party
and no measure calculated to advance the material, civic or moral interests of
Portland has ever lacked his support. Because of his business ability and
success, his public spirit and his excellent personal qualities, he holds a high
place in the esteem of all who knew him and is regarded as one of Portland's
representative business men.

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