Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Dunham, George A. 1860 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 941 - 942
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     GEORGE A. DUNHAM.  Among the thoroughly modern and efficiently conducted 
commercial institutions of Portland is that controlled by the Irwin-Hodson 
Company, a business with which George A. Dunham has been prominently 
identified for a period of thirty-six years. He was born in Ohio in 1860, a 
son of Dr. William H. and Henrietta (Clay) Dunham, who were married in 
Piketon, that state. The father, who was born in 1824, and became a successful 
physician, served in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil war. He reached 
the eightieth milestone on life's journey, responding to the final summons in 
1904. Mrs. Dunham was born in 1833 and passed away in 1927 at the advanced age 
of ninety-four years. They had five children, four sons and one daughter.

     George A. Dunham received a public school education and in his youth the 
spirit of adventure took him to the Klondike. Fortune favored him and in 1888 
he came to Portland. Starting as a salesman, he traveled as far as North 
Dakota and secured a large number of orders for his house. In 1892 he became 
associated with the firm of Ben C. Irwin & Company, composed of C. A. 
Whitmore, Steve Smith, James Rutherford and C. H. Hodson. A reorganization was 
effected by J. M. Hodson in 1895 and the name was changed to the Irwin-Hodson 
Company. At that time Mr. Whitmore was elected president and Mr. Luders was 
admitted to a partnership in the concern. C. K. Zilly became a member of the 
firm in 1903 and is now its president. Mr. Dunham was one of the organizers of 
the company, which first specialized in printing and book-binding and now 
makes automobile plates, metal signs, rubber stamps and has developed a 
general office supply business. Throughout the period of his connection with 
the company Mr. Dunham has filled the office of treasurer and owns 
considerable stock in the business, whose growth he has fostered by deep 
thought and study and systematic, efficient work.

     In 1887 Mr. Dunham was married in Scott City, Kansas, to Miss Stella 
Lamed, whose father conducted the first hardware store on Chicago's west side. 
He was one of the founders of Champaign, Illinois, and its first mayor. Mr. 
and Mrs. Dunham have become the parents of three children, two sons and a 
daughter. Charles L., born in 1890, is district sales manager for the Auburn 
Automobile Company. William H., born in 1892, resides in Portland and is 
connected with the Libby-McNeil Company. Mrs. Helen Lamb is the wife the chief 
engineer of the Valley & Siletz Railroad. Mr. Dunham is affiliated with the 
United Commercial Travelers and organized the Portland branch of that 
association. He still continues as a salesman and makes three trips a year, 
including Alaska in his territory. His ability, probity and devotion to duty 
are well known to his business associates and have met with a rich return of 
personal regard as well as a gratifying measure of financial success.

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