Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Currier, Edmonde S. June 21, 1868 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 393 - 394
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     EDMONDE S. CURRIER is numbered among Portland's enterprising merchants 
and substantial citizens and in the vicinity of St. Johns Station, where he is 
located, he has been influential in affairs affecting the community welfare. 
Mr. Currier was born in Keokuk, Iowa, on the 21st of June, 1868, a son of John 
J. and Ella F. (Beach) Currier. His father, who was for a number of years 
successfully engaged in the banking business, died in Iowa and his widow now 
resides in St. Johns, Portland.

     Edmonde S. Currier received a public school education and then entered 
the post office at Keokuk, in which he was employed for fifteen years. In 1905 
he came to St. Johns and established a general merchandise store in 
partnership with H. W. Bonham, under the firm name of Bonham & Currier, which 
they have continued to the present time In 1922 Mr. Currier broadened the 
scope of his operations by engaging in the grocery business, under the firm 
style of Couch & Currier, and is still carrying on both enterprises, which 
have been very successful and are numbered among the leading business 
establishments of this locality.

     In 1906 Mr. Currier was united in marriage to Miss Alice H. Huiskamp, who 
was born and reared in Keokuk, Iowa, and they are the parents of two children, 
Robert H., who is a student in the University of Washington, and John E., who 
is attending high school. In all of his business relations Mr. Currier has 
adhered to the highest commercial ethics and all who know him entertain for 
him the respect which his record deserves. He is a democrat in his political 
views and is a member of the Knights of Pythias, while Mrs. Currier belongs to 
the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Currier is the officially accredited 
government census taker for this district and therefore keeps in close touch 
with general local conditions. He has made a close study of and is considered 
an authority on ornithology and zoology, on which subjects he has made a 
number of reports and written several valuable papers, and he possesses the 
second largest collection of American wild fowl eggs in the west, a collection 
of which he is justly proud, for he has gone to much trouble and considerable 
expense in securing some of his specimens, a number of which are extremely 
rare and quite valuable. Mr. Currier is quiet and unassuming in manner but 
possesses to a marked degree those qualities which make for good citizenship 
and true manhood, and is extremely popular among his associates and friends.

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