Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Durkee, Charles Catlin July 13, 1880 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 405
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     CHARLES CATLIN DURKEE, of Portland, has earned a wide reputation as an 
able and reliable civil engineer, in which profession he has been engaged for 
eighteen years, and commands a representative clientele. He was born in 
Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the 13th of July, 1880, and is a son of Charles 
Edwin and Rose Maria (Wood) Durkee. His father was born in St. Louis, 
Missouri, in 1853, and in 1876 went to Colorado Springs, where for many years 
he was engaged in the hardware business. His death occurred in that city in 
1900. His wife was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1853, and died in Florida in 
1919, being interred beside the body of her husband at Colorado Springs.

     Charles C. Durkee graduated from the high school at Colorado Springs, 
after which he attended Michigan Military Academy, and then entered the 
Colorado State Agricultural College, where he majored in agriculture and 
irrigation, the latter including civil engineering. Locating then at Canon 
City, that state, he engaged in farming, which he carried on for five years, 
giving his attention mainly to fruit raising. He next went to work as plant 
manager for the Colorado Canning Company at Loveland and in May, 1910, came to 
Portland, where he has since devoted his attention to civil engineering, 
beginning his career here as an engineering draftsman. He is now in business 
on his own account, having well equipped offices in the Lumberman's building, 
and is meeting with gratifying success.

     On June 19, 1903, at Fort Collins, Colorado, Mr. Durkee was united in 
marriage to Miss Wilma W. Turk, of that city. She was born in Hastings, 
Nebraska, in 1880, a daughter of William W. and Margaret A. (Alexander) Turk, 
the latter a native of Nebraska. Mr. Turk was engaged in the banking business 
in Nebraska for a number of years, but later located in Fort Collins, 
Colorado, where he established a grocery business. Mr. Durkee has a wide 
acquaintance and is held in high regard by all who know him. He gives his 
political support to the republican party and is a member of the City Club.

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