Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Frank, Aaron M. 1891 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 767 - 768
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     AARON M. FRANK, assistant manager of the great department store of Meier 
& Frank, of Portland, is one of the city's progressive young business men and 
is an important factor in its commercial life. He is also widely known for his 
remarkable success in assembling pure-blooded show horses, and hackney ponies 
in the showing of which he has gained a national reputation.

     Born in Portland in 1891, Mr. Frank is a son of Sigmund and Fannie 
(Meier) Frank, of whom extended mention is made on another page of this work. 
He attended the public and high schools of Portland and entered the law school 
of the University of Oregon, from which he was graduated in 1913. He was 
admitted to the bar and practiced his profession. here for two years, after 
which he became identified with the Meier & Frank Company as assistant 
manager, in which position he is still serving. He is a keen and 
discriminating business man and possesses to marked degree those dependable 
qualities so essential to success.

     In 1916 Mr. Frank was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Rosenfeld, of 
Portland, and they are the parents of two children, Richard S. and Gerald W.
He is the owner of a highly improved farm of twenty-five acres within fifteen 
minutes' ride of the city and has made of it one of the show places of this 
section of the state. Here he has achieved success in the breeding of fine 
horses, in which he has gained wide recognition, having won the blue ribbons 
on his horses in every horse show in the west and many of the leading shows in 
other parts of the country. He became the owner of a pony in his boyhood and 
from that time his interest in horses has never abated. The "Aaron M. Frank 
Farm," under which name his place is known, has justly become famous for its 
horses, which are acknowledged to be the finest in their classes in the west. 
Outstanding among them are the hackney horses, Stella Vane and Buckley Vedie, 
both of which are imported and are the undefeated champions in the Olympic, 
London and Richmond shows. Also Knight Commander, who was the winner of the 
Coral Gables cup for three years at the Madison Square Garden show in New York 
city. He was imported from England and was the most sensational horse in his 
class ever shown in this country. Aloma, registered as Hamilton Queen, a 
hackney pony, was the winner of the Pacific International stake at Palo Alto 
and Sacramento in 1927, and her full brother was the winner of the Harness 
pony stake at Madison Square Garden in 1927. The Blue Book recognizes Aloma as 
one of the greatest hack ponies living. Mr. Frank also owns Loughspring, a 
hunter and winner of numerous stakes, being recognized as one of the greatest 
hunters in the United States; also Mayheart, Frank Kierce, Wailele and Alsie, 
all of which are thoroughbreds of national reputation. Mr. Frank has always 
shown his horses as from Portland, and at New York, Chicago, Kansas City and 
other leading horse shows of the country they are known as Portland horses, 
contributing thus to the general reputation of this city. Mr. Frank holds many 
private shows on his farm, where he has one of the largest private covered 
rings in the United States, having a seating capacity of seven hundred and 
fifty. He has an outside track of one-eighth mile, with an Olympic course in 
the center. He takes a justifiable pride in his horses and well merits the 
splendid success which has come to him in this way. He is a man of keen 
business discernment and therefore is satisfied with nothing short of the best 
results in anything he undertakes. He enjoys a wide acquaintance and has a 
host of warm and admiring friends throughout the country.

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