Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Bechtold, Charles C. June 14, 1885 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 641 - 642
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     CHARLES C. BECHTOLD.  For twenty years a resident of Portland, Charles C. 
Bechtold has thoroughly demonstrated his worth as a citizen and is widely and 
favorably known as general manager of the National Hospital Association. He 
was born June 14, 1885, on a farm near Freeport, Illinois, and is a son of N. 
S. and Elizabeth Bechtold, who still make their home in that locality. Reared 
on his father's farm, Charles C. Bechtold received his early education in the 
public schools of Freeport, afterward attending Western College, at Toledo, 
Iowa. In 1910 he entered the law department of the University of Oregon and 
was admitted to the bar in 1913. After leaving Western College he taught in 
the public schools of Illinois for two years, after which he went to Chicago 
where he was associated with the Culp Paving Company as secretary and 
treasurer. In 1908 he came to Portland and took up work as auditor for the 
National Hospital Association. He later was promoted to general manager, which 
position he still holds. He has exerted every effort in behalf of the 
Association, displaying the resourcefulness, initiative and sound judgment of 
the true executive, and his work has been a vital element in the success the 
Association has attained.

     He was married in 1906 to Miss Irene McMahon, of Michigan, and they have 
two children: Paul W. and Glen Allyn. Mr. Bechtold is a stanch republican but 
has never sought political office as a reward for party fealty. He is an Elk, 
a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Law fraternity, 
and also a member of the Portland Chamber of Commerce and the Portland Country 
Club. He is fond of outdoor sports but his interest centers in his work and 
the rules that govern his life are such as constitute the basis of progress in 
all lines of endeavor.

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