Multnomah-Douglas County OR Archives Biographies.....Burt, George W. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 763 - 764
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     GEORGE W. BURT, vice president of the Western Dairy Products Company of 
Portland, has long been associated with interests of this character and has 
contributed much to the development made in the dairy business, a spirit of 
enterprise actuating him at every point of his business career. He has always 
resided in Oregon, his birth having occurred near Yoncalla, his parents being 
John and Ella (Wilson) Burt, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere in 
this work. He attended the country schools there and when a boy came to 
Portland, where he entered the Hawthorne school. Later he pursued a course of 
study in the night school at the Behnke-Walker Business College. Throughout 
practically his entire life he has been identified with creamery, dairy and 
kindred interests. On the 23d of March, 1903, he became associated with the 
old Weatherly Creamery Company and when that company took over the business of 
the Crystal Ice & Storage Company, continuing the latter name, he became 
associated therewith, taking charge of the ice cream department in 1907. In 
1917 he was elected to the board of directors and was afterward made secretary 
of the company. On the 7th of October, 1925, when this company merged with the 
Western Dairy Products Company, Mr. Burt was elected vice president and also 
became one of the directors, at the same time being made divisional manager 
for Oregon. Into this field he is now directing his efforts with satisfactory 
results. There is no phase of the business with which he is not thoroughly 
familiar from production to sale, and his sound judgment and unfaltering 
enterprise feature in the continued success of the corporation. He is likewise 
a director of the Citizens Bank of Portland and his cooperation is accounted a 
valuable asset in business organizations.

     Mr. Burt was married in Portland, February 17, 1917, to Miss Arlene 
Lewis, a native of Nevada, Missouri, and a daughter of O. H. and Mollie Lewis, 
who removed to Montana, settling on a cattle ranch in that state when their 
daughter Arlene was quite young. The father died July 4, 1924, and the mother 
is still living, her home being in Portland. Their daughter, Mrs. Burt, came 
to this city about 1910 and afterward was graduated from the Washington high 
school. Mr. and Mrs. Burt are well known here and have many friends, occupying 
an enviable position in the social circles in which they move. Mr. Burt 
belongs to the Portland Chamber of Commerce, to the East Side Commercial Club 
and the Rotary Club. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of 
Odd Fellows and is a Mason, belonging to Sunnyside Lodge, F. & A. M., and to 
the Scottish Rite bodies, while of the Mystic Shrine he is a life member. He 
was president of the Portland Golf Club in 1927 and he belongs to the 
Multnomah Athletic Club. A genial, companionable gentleman, he is widely known 
in Portland, where his business interests have contributed to public progress, 
and thus he is carrying on the work of general development and improvement 
which was instituted by his ancestors here in the early days of Oregon's 
upbuilding.

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