Multnomah-Yamhill County OR Archives Biographies.....Braly, J. C. October 10, 1875 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 245 - 246
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     One of the successful automobile dealers in Portland is J. C. Braly, who 
is the distributor of Franklin cars for the state of Oregon. He has succeeded 
in organizing an effective corps of local agents through the state and is 
regarded as an able and enterprising business man. Mr. Braly was born in 
McMinnville, Oregon, on the 10th of October, 1875, and is a son of James C. 
and Mary (Whistburn) Braly, who were natives of Missouri. His family has been 
identified with the development of the Pacific coast country from a very early 
day, his paternal grandfather, who was active in the ministry, having 
organized the first Presbyterian church in the Santa Clara valley, California. 
James C. Braly accompanied his father across the plains in the '50s and 
located first in Oregon. Later he went to California, where he engaged in 
mining for awhile, and on his return to Oregon bought a thousand-acre ranch, 
called "The Riverside Farm," near McMinnville. He lived there until the fall 
of 1886, when he returned to California, where he remained until his death. 
While living at McMinnville he organized a private bank, which is now the 
McMinnville National Bank, and he also served two terms as a member of the 
Oregon State senate. His wife came across the plains with her parents in 1846 
and located in California, where she met and became the wife of James C. Braly.

     J. C. Braley received his educational training in the public schools of 
San Diego, California, after which he engaged in the hardware business, in 
which he met with gratifying success. He was for three years vice president of 
the Fullerton State Bank, at Fullerton, Orange county, and in 1910 he was 
employed as a salesman by R. C. Hamlin, of Los Angeles. In the following year 
he came to Portland as state distributor for the Franklin car, in which he has 
continued to the present time. He has organized a splendid sales force and has 
erected a fine office building at Fourteenth and Burnside streets, two stories 
and basement and one hundred by one hundred feet. In addition, he owns other 
valuable property in this city, as well as an attractive home.

     Mr. Braly was united in marriage to Miss Blanche Sheppard, of San Diego, 
California, who died in 1911, leaving two children, Malcolm Sheppard, who died 
in 1918, and James Whistburn, who is now associated with his father in 
business. In 1918 Mr. Braly was married to Miss Kathrine Pogosnick. Mr. Braly 
is a stanch supporter of the republican party and has shown a genuine interest 
in matters affecting the welfare of his city and state. He is a Knight Templar 
Mason; is a life member of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and belongs to the 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His name is on the membership rolls of 
the Portland Golf Club, the Audubon Society, the Chamber of Commerce, the 
Oregon State Motor Association and the Oregon State Automotive Association, 
and he is a life member of the American Ornithologists Union of New York. He 
is a persistent booster for Portland, to the interests of which he is 
intensely loyal, and he has well merited the confidence and respect which are 
accorded him by his fellowmen.

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