Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Dickey, Walter P. March 11, 1879 - 
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     WALTER P. DICKEY, member of the well known stock and bond, brokerage firm 
of Wentworth & Dickey, of Portland, has long been identified with financial 
and investment affairs, in which he is regarded as an expert, and in his 
present line of business is achieving gratifying success, Mr. Dickey was born 
at Neoga, Cumberland county, Illinois, on the 11th of March, 1879, and is a 
son of William D. and Sarah H. (McAlister) Dickey, both of whom were of Scotch 
descent. His paternal great-grandfather, John Dickey, was the first circuit-
riding Presbyterian preacher of Indiana, and his grandfather, N. S. Dickey, 
was a minister of the Presbyterian church and one of the early preachers at 
Neoga, Illinois. William D. Dickey established the Cumberland County Bank, at 
Neoga, in 1872 and was its cashier until 1893. While Lyman J. Gage was 
secretary of the treasury, he served as assistant United States treasurer at 
Washington, D. C., and at Sioux City, Iowa. He then went to Indianapolis, 
Indiana, and became associated with John Perrin, who was later chairman of the 
Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco. They organized the American National 
Bank of Indianapolis, of which Mr. Dickey became cashier. Later he became 
assistant cashier of the National City Bank of Chicago, in which city he lived 
until his death, which occurred in 1919. His widow died in Portland, Oregon, 
in 1926.

     Walter P. Dickey attended the public schools and completed his education 
in Butler College, at Indianapolis. In 1897 he entered the Merchants National 
Bank at Indianapolis as a messenger boy, and in 1900 went to Sioux City, Iowa, 
where he entered the Live Stock National Bank, of which, two years later, at 
the age of twenty-three years, he was made cashier. Here he demonstrated his 
high qualities as a financier and banker, building the bank up to a four 
million dollar concern. In 1911 Mr. Dickey came to Portland and organized the 
Portland Cattle Loan Company, of which he was president, and also organized 
the Livestock State Bank, of which he was the, first president. In 1922 he 
became the western representative of the Mechanics and Metals National Bank of 
New York city, and subsequently, when that institution was merged with the 
Chase National Bank, he continued for two years longer as its western 
representative. On November 1, 1927, he and G. K. Wentworth organized the firm 
of Wentworth & Dickey and engaged in the general stock and bond brokerage 
business, with offices in the Lumberman's building, and are building up a very 
satisfactory business. They give their personal attention to their clients 
and, having gained a reputation for reliability and honorable dealing, are 
attracting a very desirable class of customers.

     On April 30, 1910, Mr. Dickey was united in marriage to Miss Margaret 
White, of Seattle, Washington, who was born at Sioux City, Iowa. They are the 
parents of three children, Dorothy, Virginia and Walter Price, Jr. Mr. Dickey 
gives the republican party his political support and is a member of the 
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has attained the Knight Templar 
degree and is also a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Waverly 
Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He is well known throughout the 
Pacific Northwest, having been identified in various ways with a number of 
important industries, and is regarded as an able and astute financier. A man 
of sterling character and straightforward manner, cordial and affable in his 
social relations, and loyal and true at all times, he commands the respect and 
esteem of all who know him. 


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 726-727

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