Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Dailey, Chester A. 1895 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com January 24, 2011, 1:53 pm Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 787 - 788 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company CHESTER A. DAILEY, president of the Alderwood Knitting Mills, a well known business enterprise of Portland, the trade name of Alderwood being a familiar one throughout this section of the country, was born in Gresham, Oregon, in 1895, a son of P. A. and Savannah I. (Duvall) Dailey. The father was born in Iowa and in 1860, at the age of four years, was brought to the northwest by his father, Moses M. Dailey, who settled in the Damascus country and who passed away shortly after his arrival. P. A. Dailey pursued his education in the Union school at Damascus and became a rancher, devoting much of his life to agricultural pursuits. His last days were spent in Gresham, where he passed away in 1911. His wife, who died in 1922, was born in Gresham and was a daughter of Davis Duvall, who came to Oregon in 1852, traveling by team from Kentucky. He secured a donation land claim near Gresham and undertook the work of pioneer development but was killed shortly afterward by a falling tree when but thirty-nine years of age. Chester A. Dailey has two own sisters and three half brothers and a sister who were born of his mother's previous marriage. Chester A. Dailey attended the grammar school at Gresham and after his father's death in 1911 he came to Portland, where he resumed his schooling, graduating with the class of 1914 from the Jefferson high school. Later he attended the Oregon Agricultural College and subsequently he was with an engineering corps of the United States army as a corporal during the World war. He spent fifteen months in France as a member of the Forty-first Division, which was made a replacement division after its arrival overseas. Mr. Dailey was much of the time on detached service. In order to thoroughly acquaint himself for the business world he pursued a correspondence commercial course, after which he spent four years in the employ of a tire concern and was later in the office of the Jantzen Knitting Mills. On severing that connection he became identified with the Alderwood Knitting Mills, a corporation of which he is the president. The business was established in 1925 at 284 East Tenth street in Portland under the name of the Wooly West Knitting Mills, Mr. Dailey's associates in the undertaking being J. A. Wisner and the Jantzen Knitting Mills. In 1926 a removal was made to the present location at 734 Division street, where the company has thirty-seven hundred and fifty square feet of floor space. The output of the plant is sweaters and caps and its sales are handled through the Jantzen organization. They employ about thirty people and their goods are sent out under the Alderwood trademark. Mr. Dailey's previous experience in this field of labor constituted the excellent foundation upon which he has built his success since starting out independently and his enterprise and executive ability are proving forceful factors in the profitable conduct of this enterprise. Mr. Dailey was married at Oregon City to Miss Ethel Tanner, who was born in Ontario, Canada, and they have one son, Chester A., Jr. In his fraternal relations Mr. Dailey is a Mason, having taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite, while he also holds membership in Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine. A veteran of the World war, he is always local in matters of citizenship and his progressiveness and enterprise in business, combined with thorough reliability, have gained him a creditable name and place in manufacturing circles. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/dailey1421gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 4.2 Kb