Multnomah-Jackson-Lane County OR Archives Biographies.....Beaver, A. M. September 7, 1889 - 
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      A. M. BEAVER.  In an active business career A. M. Beaver has become one 
of the capable and efficient real estate men of Portland, as is attested by 
the volume of business which he has handled in this city during the past six 
years. Mr. Beaver was born in Columbus, Ohio, on the 7th of September, 1889, 
and is a son of A. M. and Myrtle (Aldred) Beaver. The mother died in 1898 and 
subsequently Mr. Beaver married Miss Nettie Calhoun. In 1907 he brought his 
family to Oregon and is now engaged in the real estate business in Ashland.
     A. M. Beaver. Jr. attended the public schools and high school of Columbus 
and then took a commercial course in a business college. His first work here 
was as a salesman for a building material concern, after which he went to 
Ashland, where for two years he engaged in the hardware and automobile 
business. On his return to Portland. in 1910, he became assistant manager of 
the Michigan Automobile & Buggy Company, which  position he held for three 
years, and then bought a hardware store at Springfield, Oregon, which he 
conducted for two years and then sold. In 1915 he came back to Portland and 
accepted a position as manager for W. H. Wallingford, with whom he remained 
until 1918, when he took the local agency for the Liberty and Premier cars, 
and, later, for the Columbia car. In 1921 he sold his lease to the Buick 
company, for which concern he served as sales manager for one year. In the 
fall of 1922 Mr. Beaver entered the real estate field, in which he has 
specialized in business properties and business leases, and in this line of 
operation has met with notable success, Among the important deals handled by 
him as agent was the selling of the Harvey Scott home for fifty thousand 
dollars in 1926, while in 1927 he sold the Security Storage Company warehouse 
for four hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars. He handled properties for 
the Ladd estate amounting to over two million dollars, and also sold the 
Alisky building, at Third and Morrison streets. As a side line he has built 
number of residences, which he has sold at a nice profit. In 1927 Mr. Beaver 
formed a partnership with Chester A. Moores, under the firm name of the Moores-
Beaver Company, of which Mr. Beaver is president and Mr. Moores, vice 
president and treasurer. He has successfully handled hundreds of properties 
and leases in this city and has gained a wide reputation for his effective and 
progressive business methods and for the high principles on which he operates, 
none having questioned his integrity or honor.
     Mr. Beaver was united in mariage to Miss Dassah Robinson, of Portland, 
and they are the parents of two children, Jack Aldred and Bettye Lorene. Mr. 
Beaver is an ardent republican and has taken an interest in public affairs, 
particularly such as relate to the welfare and progress of his city and 
county. He is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Chamber 
of Commerce, the Ad Club, of which he is a director, the Portland Realty 
Board, the Portland Golf Club and the One Hundred Per Cent Club and is 
president of the Friday Morning Breakfast Club. He is alert and enterprising, 
thoroughly in sympathy with the spirit of the northwest, and in every relation 
of life has measured up to the highest standard of citizenship and manhood, so 
that he commands to a marked degree the public confidence and esteem.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 429-430

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