Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Fowler, J. W. 1872 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 422
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     J. W. FOWLER.  With efficiency as his watchword, J. W. Fowler has 
steadily progressed toward the goal of success and is now an influential 
factor in the control of one of the large lumber corporations of Portland. A 
native of New York state, he was born in 1872 and when a child was taken to 
Minnesota by his parents, James and Isabella Fowler, who settled in St. Paul. 
The father was a prominent contractor, who later went to Wisconsin.

     In the public schools of St. Paul, J. W. Fowler obtained his early 
education and continued his studies in Macalester College of Minnesota. In 
Hayward, Wisconsin, he entered the employ of the John C. Hill Company, 
composed of John C. Hill, R. L. McCormick and Frederick Weyerhaeuser, 
lumbermen of national repute, and remained with the firm for four years. 
Afterward Mr. Fowler was associated with John C. Hill in the lumber business 
for a few years and next engaged in ranching for a short time. At Ashland, 
Wisconsin, he was identified with the Duncan-Brewer Company and in 1903 came 
to Portland as manager of the Peninsula Lumber Company. He acted in that 
capacity until 1907, when the business was sold, and then became 
superintendent of the Eastern & Western Lumber Company. Mr. Fowler still fills 
that im¬portant position and since 1923 has been one of the vice presidents of 
the cororation. He is in charge of the logging and manufacturing departments 
and gives to the firm the services of an expert. The company specializes in 
the manufacture of fir lumber and conducts an extensive business, shipping the 
output of its plant to points throughout the United States and also to foreign 
lands.

     Mr. Fowler married Miss Gertrude Blanding, of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, 
and they have become the parents of two children: Florence, who was graduated 
from Reed College and is now a member of the faculty of a select school 
conducted by Mrs. Lucy Ramberg at Florence, Italy; and Worth B., a high school 
pupil. Mr. Fowler is affiliated with the Masonic order and the Alderwood Golf 
Club. In politics he is a stanch republican but has never sought office as a 
reward for party fealty. His interest centers in his work, and his industry, 
ability and fidelity to duty are well known to Portland's citizens, who 
entertain for him high regard.

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