Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Carpenter, Dewey L. 1884 - 
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     DEWEY L. CARPENTER is successfully managing important commercial 
interests and has been closely identified with business affairs of Portland 
for nearly twenty years, bending his energies toward administrative direction 
and executive control. He was born in Orion, Oakland county, Michigan, in 
1884, and is a son of Delos and Clara (Rodenbaugh) Carpenter, who are now 
residing in the Rose city. Endowed with mechanical skill and creative talent, 
the father invented and patented a number of useful articles and for many 
years was engaged in manufacturing in Michigan.

     D. L. Carpenter was reared in his native state and supplemented his 
public school education by a four years' course in the University of Michigan. 
In 1909, when a young man of twenty-five, he went to the province of British 
Columbia and for a time me was in the service of the Canadian Pacific Railroad 
Company. On December 28, 1909, he arrived in Portland where he has since made 
his home. For a few years he was engaged in forestry work and then turned his 
attention to the salmon industry. In 1912 he was one of the organizers of the 
Canoe Pass Packing Company, of which he was secretary and treasurer. Later the 
business was consolidated with that of the Alaska Sea Food Cannery and 
incorporated under the name of the Shepperd Point Packing Company, of which 
Mr. Carpenter is now a director. In 1919 he joined W. H. Muirhead in business 
and they have since controlled the activities of the Beaver Portland Cement 
Company. The plant has a daily capacity of sixteen hundred barrels of cement 
and the annual output amounts to five hundred thousand barrels, which is sold 
to local dealers. Mr. Carpenter is president of the company and the duties of 
vice president are discharged by Mr. Muirhead. In 1926 the Ross Island Sand & 
Gravel Company was formed and Mr. Carpenter has since been president. The firm 
owns a deposit of fine quality of sand and gravel on Ross island, formerly the 
old Sherry-Ross donation land claim. This property is well located and easily 
worked. A tram is operated from the island to the mainland and the equipment 
of the company comprises a hydraulic dredge, crushers, screens, etc. The firm 
manufactures sand used in making concrete and the plant has a capacity of five 
hundred thousand yards of sand and gravel per year. About twenty-five men are 
employed by the company and the product is sold locally. Mr. Carpenter 
combines a capacity for detail with the ability to think in large terms and 
has prospered in his wide undertakings.
 
     In 1911 Mr. Carpenter was united in marriage to Miss May Henderson, a 
daughter of M. F. and Sarah Henderson, whose personal sketch appears elsewhere 
in this publication. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have a family of three children: 
Frances, Dewey and Richard. Along fraternal lines Mr. Carpenter is identified 
with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in Masonry he has attained 
the thirty-second degree and is a Shriner. He also belongs to the Chamber of 
Commerce, the Progressive Business Men's Club and the Knights of the Round 
Table, and his political allegiance is given to the republican party. Mr. 
Carpenter is a broad-minded man, animated by the progressive spirit of the 
west, and throughout his career has followed the course dictated by 
conscience, honor and good judgment, thus winning the respect, confidence and 
goodwill of those with whom be has been associated, as well as material gain.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 675-676

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