Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Hart, James D.  1860 - 
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     JAMES  D. HART has been identified with the insurance business in 
Portland for the past forty-five years, and in the real estate field also he 
has done much effective work, so that he holds a prominent and influential 
place in the business circles of the community. He was born in Ontario, 
Canada, in 1860, and is a son of Henry and Caroline (Perkins) Hart. The family 
came to Portland in 1881. Both parents are now deceased.

     James D. Hart received a good education in the public schools of Ontario 
and accompanied his parents on their removal to Portland in 1881. Here he 
entered the employ of J. K. Gill & Company, with which concern he remained for 
two years and in 1883 he engaged in the real estate and insurance business on 
his own account. During the earlier years of his business activities he 
handled a number of subdivisions, including among others the Mt. Tabor Villa 
and Tabor Heights, in the promotion of which he met with marked success, but 
in later years his real estate operations are confined to his own properties. 
He is a member of the Rogers-Hart-Banks Company, which is one of the largest 
and most reliable insurance agencies of this city and which commands a very 
considerable part of the insurance business of this district.

     In 1885 Mr. Hart was united in marriage to Miss Mary Goodnough, of 
Portland, whose father, Ira Goodnough, was one of the pioneer contractors of 
this city. To Mr. and Mrs. Hart have been horn three children: Maida, who is 
the wife of Carl L. Werneke, of Portland, and has one child; Philip, of 
Portland, who was married to Miss Milla Wessinger and has three children; and 
Katherine, who is the wife of William P. Stevens, of this city, and has one 
child. The democratic party receives Hart's political support and he is a 
member of the Arlington Club, the Waverly Golf Club, the Multnomah Athletic 
Club and the Lang Syne Society. He is a man of excellent character, fine 
personality and agreeable manner and throughout the city where he has spent 
the major portion of his life commands uniform confidence and esteem.



Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
649

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