Multnomah-Klamath County OR Archives Biographies.....Harrison, Roger G. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 112
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     ROGER G. HARRISON, president and manager of the Harrison Lumber Company, 
a Portland corporation, has been identified with the timber and lumber 
business continuously from boyhood and is regarded as an authority on every 
phase of it. In his present enterprise he is meeting with large success and is 
numbered among Portland's progressive and substantial business men. Mr. 
Harrison was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and received his educational 
training there, attending the public schools and a preparatory school. His 
first regular job was as tally boy for a log scaler in the woods of his native 
state. Later he became a logger and cruiser, and in the course of time, having 
saved his money and kept on the lookout for good investment opportunities, he 
became the owner of three small mills in Michigan. In 1901 he came to Oregon 
and bought a tract of timber land. He spent two years in the sawmill business 
at Klamath Falls, but met with a severe loss in the destruction of his mill by 
fire. In 1919 he came to Portland and spent two years as lumber buyer for the 
W. R. Chamberlain Company, of San Francisco, and in 1921 established his 
present business, under the name of the Harrison Lumber Company, of which he 
is president and manager, and his wife, M. A. Harrison, is secretary and 
treasurer. His first office was in the Northwestern Bank building, but when 
the Porter building was remodeled he moved into it and has since remained 
there. He is a wholesale dealer in and exporter of Pacific coast lumber, 
having agents abroad, and is now handling about three million feet of lumber a 
month. He spends much of his time in the mills and, being an excellent judge 
of lumber, is able to supply his customers with just what they require, 
shipping direct from California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

     On January 17, 1922, Mr. Harrison was united in marriage to Miss Mildred 
A. Carr, of Portland, a daughter of Charles and Gertrude (Larsen) Carr, of 
Bellingham, Washington. Mrs. Harrison, as secretary and treasurer of the 
company, is rendering capable and valuable assistance to her husband and has 
proven an important factor in the successful operation of the business. Mr. 
Harrison is a member of the Knights of Columbus, is a man of strong character, 
sterling integrity and agreeable personality and is highly esteemed throughout 
the business circles in which he moves.

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