Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Blumauer, Solomon July 28, 1862 - February 23, 1928
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     SOLOMON BLUMAUER.  Alert to his opportunities, Solomon Blumauer converted 
them into tangible assets, and his well developed powers and tireless industry 
placed him with Portland's substantial business men. By nature modest and 
unassuming, his activities as a private citizen were productive of much good 
and his devotion to his community and state was manifest both by word and 
deed. A native of Portland, he was born in the family home on the northeast 
corner of Fourth and Morrison streets, July 28, 1862, and was a son of Solomon 
and Mollie Blumauer, Oregon pioneers.

     In the acquirement of an education Mr. Blumauer attended the local 
grammar and high schools and began his commercial career with Herter, May & 
Company in 1880, when a young man of eighteen. His ability and devotion to 
their interests won him a partnership in the business and for ten years he 
traveled for the firm, making all of the towns in Idaho, Oregon and 
Washington. He was one of the best known salesmen in the northwest and also 
one of the most successful, establishing a large clientele for the house in 
his territory. In 1891 he disposed of his holdings in the concern and became 
one of the stockholders of the Blumauer-Frank Drug Company. For several years 
he was a forceful factor in the administration of its affairs and in 1900 
formed the Blumauer & Hock Company, wholesale dealers in soft beverages. To 
the upbuilding and expansion of the business he devoted the remainder of his 
life manifesting the decisiveness, initiative and keen sagacity of the true 
executive, and continued at the head of the company until his tragic death on 
February 23, 1928.  At about eleven o'clock he had gone up to the second floor 
of the firm's warehouse and office building at Nos. 428-430 Flanders street, 
and his disappearance was not noted until the arrival of a man shortly before 
one o'clock to keep an appointment with him.  Search was then begun and 
carried forward on all three floors before suggestion was made that he might 
have fainted and slipped into the shaft. Falling forward, Mr. Blumauer is 
believed to have slipped through the narrow opening and plunged to the bottom 
of the shaft.

     On the 6th of August, 1893, Mr. Blumauer married Miss Hattie Fleischner, 
a daughter of Jacob and Fannie (Nadler) Fleischner, who were natives of 
Bohemia, Austria, and sought the opportunities of the new world. In 1852 they 
made the overland trip to Oregon, and Mr. Fleischner conducted one of the 
first stores in Albany. In the '60s the family came to Portland, and here Mr. 
and Mrs. Fleischner spent their remaining years. Mr. and Mrs. Blumauer became 
the parents of a daughter, Hazel, who is the wife of Thomas S. Barnes and the 
mother of one child, Douglas Barclay Barnes.

     Mr. Blumauer was a member of Congregation Beth Israel and secretary of 
the First Hebrew Benevolent Association. Owning the second automobile in 
Portland, he early saw the necessity of an organization of motorists and 
formed the first association of that kind in the city. He was also responsible 
for the organizing of the society known as the Native Sons of Oregon and was 
the first president of Abernathy Cabinet No. 1. The Portland Chamber of 
Commerce numbered him among its enterprising members, and he was also 
connected with the Tualatin Country Club, the Rotary Club and the Benevolent 
Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Blumauer was deeply attached to his city and 
state and their progress was to him a matter of vital concern.  He was true to 
the ties of home and friendship and his worth as a business man and a citizen 
was uniformly conceded. He possessed the sincere affection of all with whom he 
was associated, and his untimely death was the occasion of deep and widespread 
regret.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 833-834

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