Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Hoover, E. J. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 873
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     E. J. HOOVER, president of the Hoover Guernsey Dairy Company of Portland, 
was born in southern Michigan, a son of J. P. and Martha (Conkling) Hoover. 
The father followed the occupation of farming in Michigan. He passed away in 
the year 1926, having survived his wife since 1917.

     E. J. Hoover received his educational training in the schools of his 
native state and his youthful experiences were those of the farm-bred boy who 
early becomes familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring 
for the crops. Later he began farming on his own account and was thus engaged 
in Michigan until 1911, in which year he made his way westward to the Pacific 
coast and entered the employ of the Sanitary Milk & Cream Company, Portland, 
with which he was associated for thirteen months and thirteen days. Later, in 
association with C. E. Eckelman, he established the Riverview Dairy and was 
identified with the business for two years. He next purchased the Vine Lodge 
Dairy at Fourteenth and Jefferson streets and there carried on the business 
for three years, after which he traded it for a farm at Beaverton, devoting 
his attention to the cultivation of the land for a year and maintaining 
thereon a herd of forty Guernsey cows. On the expiration of that period he 
established the Hoover Guernsey Dairy Company in 1919, of which he is the 
president and owner. The business was located at 328 Holliday avenue and there 
he handled milk and cream, carrying on a retail business. He next removed to 
Front street and later to his present location at 498 East Morrison street, 
covering a quarter of a block. The building is fifty by fifty feet in 
dimensions, one story in height with basement. He still continues in the 
retail trade, although he does some wholesale business. He collects the milk 
which he handles, pasteurizes it and sells to many patrons, handling about 
twelve hundred gallons per day. He also manufactures Bulgarian buttermilk and 
in the conduct of the business operates seven Dodge delivery wagons. Every 
feature of the dairy trade is thoroughly familiar to him and the utmost 
sanitary conditions are maintained, so that the milk is placed upon the market 
in a perfectly pure state.

     Mr. Hoover was married in Portland to Miss Esther Bartholomew, a native 
of Indiana, and they have become the parents of two children, May Esther and 
Jean Marie. He belongs to the East Side Commercial Club, while his fraternal 
relations are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. He is ever 
loyal to his professions as a member of these organizations and he is equally 
faithful to his duties and obligations of citizenship, while in business 
circles his record has been characterized by reliability as well as by 
enterprising methods. He has achieved success through perseverance and 
undaunted energy and the qualities which he has manifested have commended him 
to the confidence and good will of the general public.

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