Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Brandes, Carl A. April 16, 1865 - 
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     CARL A. BRANDES bears a very important relation to the public affairs of 
Multnomah county, being the county purchasing agent, and his extensive 
business experience and sound judgment in practical matters have enabled him 
to give effective and appreciated service. Mr. Brandes was born in Germany on 
the 16th of April, 1865, and is a son of Henry and Mina Brandes. His father 
came to California in 1849, was made a citizen of the United States in 1856, 
and subsequently returned to Germany, where he was married. In 1877 he came to 
Oregon and located in Multnomah county, where he was engaged in farming during 
the remaining active years of his life. Both parents are deceased. Carl A. 
Brandes received a good public school education in Germany and this country 
and graduated from the Portland Business College. He learned the upholstering 
trade, which he followed for a few years, and then formed a partnership with 
his brother, Fred Brandes, and engaged in the dairy business, with which he 
was identified for four years. In 1889 he was appointed deputy county 
assessor, serving about two years, and in 1894 was appointed deputy clerk of 
the circuit court, in which capacity he served until 1900. He then went to 
Nome, Alaska, where he remained about one and a half years, and on his return 
to the States, in 1902, was elected county auditor of Multnomah county, being 
the first man elected to that office in this county. He was elected to a 
second term, serving in that office until June, 1910, when he engaged in the 
creamery business, which commanded his attention until 1917, when he sold out 
and for about a year was engaged in the salmon canning business. During the 
latter part of the World war he worked in the Baltin shipyards, at Portland, 
after which he entered the employ of Bell & Company, commission merchants, 
with which concern he remained until September, 1924, when he received the 
appointment to his present position as purchasing agent for Multnomah county. 
Sagacious and discriminating in his judgment, and absolutely honorable in all 
of his dealings, he has been enabled to save to the county a considerable 
amount of money, and has thus contributed in a definite measure to the public 
welfare.

     In 1890 Mr. Brandes was united in marriage to Miss Rose Powell, who was 
born and reared in Multnomah county, and whose father, John Powell, came 
across the plains to Oregon in 1852. To Mr. and Mrs. Brandes have been born 
two children, Irene, who is the wife of Dr. J. N. Shaw, who served in France 
during the World war and is now a teacher in the Oregon Agricultural College, 
and they have two sons, James B., aged seven years, and Thomas Allen, aged 
three years; and Alan, who is safety engineer for the United Verde Copper 
Company, in Arizona. He also served overseas during the recent war, and is 
married. Mr. Brandes gives his political support to the republican party.  He 
is a member of the Knights of Pythias, in which he has held all chairs except 
that of chancellor commander; a life member of the Multnomah Athletic Club; 
and belongs to the Lang Syne Society and the Chamber of Commerce. A man of 
sincere purpose in all things, candid and straightforward in manner and 
possessing a pleasing personality, he not only commands the respect of all who 
have had business relations with him, but also has many warm friends 
throughout the city and county in which he lives.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 537 - 538

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