Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Crum, Virgil March 30, 1884 - 
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     VIRGIL CRUM, of Portland, is not only one of the leading lawyers of this 
section of the state, but is also actively identified with a number of 
prominent business and financial institutions of Portland. Born in Hancock 
county, Illinois, on the 30th day of March, 1884, he is a son of Charles P. 
and Lina (James) Crum, both of whom are deceased. The father followed the 
occupation of farming, and was also a school teacher, and led an active life 
up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1885. Virgil Crum was about one 
year old when his father died and his mother carefully reared him, giving him 
the advantage of a good public school education. He decided to devote his life 
to the practice of law and to that end entered the law school of Chicago 
University, from which he was graduated in 1908. He practiced his profession 
in Chicago about one year and then came to Portland, where he has since been 
engaged in professional work, in which he has met with very flattering 
success. While conducting a general practice, he specializes in titles, real 
estate and corporation law, and is regarded as an able, safe and dependable 
attorney, for he is thorough and painstaking in everything to which he 
addresses his attention and is well established in the confidence of those who 
have employed his services.
     In 1911 Mr. Crum was united in marriage to Miss Beulah Gregory, of 
Zionsville, Indiana. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, 
in which he has received the chapter degrees of the York rite and the thirty-
second degree of the Scottish rite, the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the 
Mystic Shrine, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Arlington Club, 
the Columbia Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and is affiliated with 
the Multnomah County Bar Association, the Oregon State Bar Association and the 
American Bar Association. He gives his political support to the republican 
party and is deeply interested in public affairs, though he has never sought 
the honors or emoluments of public office, He is president of the Continental 
Securities Company, of which he was one of the organizers; a director of the 
Portland Trust and Savings Bank; a director and vice president of the Park 
Rose State Bank; and is a director in several other local corporations. By a 
life consistent in motive and action, by candid and straightforward relations 
with his fellowmen and a proper interest in the general welfare of his city 
and county, Mr. Crum has gained and retains the unqualified respect of all who 
have come in contact with him and is regarded as a valuable citizen of his 
community.


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History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Pages 277-278

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