Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Hudson, Harvey S. 1871 - 
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     HARVEY S. HUDSON, of Portland, who has rendered valuable and appreciated 
service for twenty-four years as supreme president of the United Artisans Life 
Association, enjoys the distinction of having been chosen to this position 
unanimously at every quadrennial election since 1904. This is a well merited 
compliment, for under his judicious management this organization has had a 
remarkable record and is now one of the leading associations of its kind in 
the United States. Mr. Hudson was born in River Falls, Pierce county, 
Wisconsin, in 1871, and is a son of William S and Elizabeth Jane (Rogers) 
Hudson, the latter a half sister of Ben Joslyn's mother. The family came to 
Portland, Oregon, in 1874, and later the father engaged in the blacksmithing 
business at Forest Grove, Washington county. Both parents are now deceased.

     Harvey S. Hudson received his educational training in the public schools, 
Pacific University and Willamette University. He engaged in the grocery 
business at Gaston, Oregon, which he continued until 1896. When twenty-one 
years of age he was elected a member of the Oregon legislature, serving one 
term, and was tendered the position of collector of customs at Nome, Alaska, 
but declined that post and entered the internal revenue service at San 
Francisco. Later he was sent to Alaska to organize the new revenue district of 
Washington and Alaska, and served as chief clerk in that territory for one 
year. In 1904 Mr. Hudson came to Portland and assumed the presidency of the 
United Artisans Life Association, to which he had been elected, and has, by 
successive reelections, held that position to the present time. He has been 
tireless in his efforts to promote the interests of his organization, with 
what success may be judged from the statement that at that time the 
association's assets amounted to one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, 
whereas they are now two million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. 
The association has over twenty million dollars of outstanding insurance and 
the percentage of surplus in relation to assets is greater than any other life 
insurance organization in the United States, excepting a few small companies 
recently organized. The association has over half a million dollars loaned in 
Portland alone, its business is founded on the legal reserve basis, and is the 
only fraternal insurance association ever organized in Portland that has 
lived. The office force comprises twenty people and there are over one hundred 
field salesmen.

     On June 11, 1891, Mr. Hudson was united in marriage to Miss Neva Ann 
Best, of Gaston, Oregon, and they are the parents of two children, William 
Maurice, an attorney in Portland, who is married and has two children; and 
Harvey Edward, who is associated with his father in the insurance business. He 
possesses a splendid tenor voice, and has done much notable concert and church 
work, being a member of the Trinity church quartet and frequently delighting 
the radio audiences with his voice. He married and has four children. Mr. 
Hudson is a stanch republican in his political views and is a member of the 
Woodmen of the World, the Pacific Woodmen Life Association, the United 
Artisans Life Association, the Alderwood Golf Club and the Portland Chamber of 
Commerce. A man of determined character and great industry, he has proven the 
right man for the position which he occupies and his splendid record has 
gained for him the confidence and respect of all who know of him and of his 
work.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 619-620

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