Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Beveridge, Joseph W. December 21, 1861 - 
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     JOSEPH W. BEVERIDGE.  One of the principal offices of county government 
is that of county clerk, for it has to do with many important phases of public 
affairs. This office in Multnomah county is being worthily filled by Joseph W. 
Beveridge, whose service, covering a period of twelve years, has been marked 
by close attention to duty, clear headed judgment and a sincere interest in 
the public welfare. Mr. Beveridge was born in Suisun, Solano county, 
California, December 21, 1861, and is a son of David F. and Rebecca H. (Winn) 
Beveridge, the former a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and the latter of 
Salem, Massachusetts. His parents came to the Pacific coast, by way of Cape 
Horn, in 1851, locating in California. For some years Mr. Beveridge was 
engaged in mercantile pursuits in Vallejo, but later moved to Sacramento, 
where he and his wife died, their deaths occurring before their son Joseph W. 
was nine years of age.

     The latter attended the public schools and then apprenticed himself to 
learn the printing trade. During that period he received a wage of three 
dollars and a half a week, and desiring a better education, attended night 
school. He worked for H. S. Crocker & Company, printers in Sacramento, for ten 
years, learning all phases of the business, and then became foreman for 
another large printing concern in that city. In 1883 he came to Portland and 
aided in organizing the Lewis & Dryden Printing Company, of which he was made 
superintendent, continuing with that concern until they sold out to C. H. 
Crocker & Company, in 1893. He later became foreman in the office of the 
Portland Telegram, where he worked for two years, and was afterwards vice 
president and superintendent of The Bushong Company, of Portland, which 
position he was holding when, in 1916, he was elected county clerk of 
Multnomah county. So satisfactorily did he discharge his official duties that 
he has been successively reelected to that office to the present time. The 
business of the county clerk's office has materially increased during his 
incumbency, as may be seen from the statement that whereas the receipts of the 
office in 1916 were sixty-four thousand dollars, they are now one hundred and 
eighty-one thousand dollars. During the past eleven years Mr. Beveridge has 
turned over to the general funds of the county about three hundred and thirty-
six thousand dollars. In his present position, he has seventy-two deputies 
under him, the number being increased to over one hundred during registration 
periods. Mr. Beveridge is the father of the law providing for four-year terms 
for all county officers, instead of two years as formerly prevailed.

     Mr. Beveridge was united in marriage to Miss Fannie A. Bullock, whose 
father, Judge Samuel Bullock, was a pioneer of this city. Their only child, a 
daughter, Helen, is the wife of J. E. Law, of Salem, Oregon, and they have two 
sons, Robert and Joseph. Mr. Beveridge gives his earnest support to the 
republican party and is a member of Washington Lodge, No. 46, A. F. & A. M.; 
Portland Consistory, A. A. S. R.; Washington Chapter, No. 18, R. A. M.; 
Washington Commandery, No. 15, K. T.; Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; the 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of 
the World. He also belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Eastside Commercial 
Club and the Progressive Business Men's Club, of which he is a past director. 
He has led a busy and industrious life from boyhood and has endeavored to do 
his full duty at all times. While still an apprentice in a printing office, at 
the age of sixteen years, he helped to send one of his sisters through 
college, and later educated another sister. He is a man of stanch integrity of 
motive and action, is candid and straightforward in all of his relations and 
during the entire period of his official career has been actuated by a sincere 
desire to give the people of Multnomah county the best service within his 
power, a fact which is recognized and appreciated by his fellowmen.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 544 - 545

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