Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Franck, Lauritz S. December 10, 1865 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 575 - 576
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     LAURITZ S. FRANCK.  As an extensive dealer in timber land, Lauritz S. 
Franck, of Portland, has been active and prominent and during the past twenty-
two years has handled an enormous acreage of good timber land, in which 
business he has been more than ordinarily successful. Born in Norway on the 
10th of December, 1865, he is a son of John C. and Marguerite (Vangen) Franck. 
In 1872 the family came to the United States, making the journey from the 
Atlantic seaboard by way of the St. Lawrence river and the lakes, to Detroit, 
Michigan. They settled in Manistee, that state, where the father's death 
occurred in 1909. The mother, who is now eighty-nine years of age, makes her 
home with her son, Lauritz .S., in Portland.
  
     L. S. Franck was given the advantage of a good public school education in 
Michigan, after which he took a commercial course in a business college in 
Chicago, Illinois. He entered a bank in Manistee, where he held the position 
of teller for several years, after which he turned his attention to the timber 
business, in which he was engaged in Michigan for a number of years. In 1902 
he paid a visit to Portland and was so favorably impressed with conditions in 
this part of the country that in 1906 he established his permanent residence 
in this city, and at once engaged in the timber business. From that time to 
the present he has devoted his attention to the buying and selling of timber, 
and, being a good judge of timber values, has been enabled to realize a very 
satisfactory measure of prosperity. He has his offices in the Yeon building 
and all who have dealt with him have found him a man of his word, fair and 
square in every transaction, whereby he has commanded the confidence of the 
timber buying interests. Mr. Franck is a director of the Lumbermen's Trust 
Company, of Portland.

     In 1893 Mr. Franck was united in marriage to Miss May Grandjohn, who was 
born and reared in Michigan. He is a republican in his political views and he 
is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Chamber of Commerce. A man of 
sterling worth and friendly manner, he commands the uniform esteem of all who 
know him.

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