Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Huntington, Harry C. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 749 - 750
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     HARRY C. HUNTINGTON is president of the Huntington Rubber Mills, one of 
Portland's rapidly growing industries, which is producing a line and quality 
of goods that are gaining for the concern a national reputation. Mr. 
Huntington was born in Sandusky, Ohio, a son of H. C. and Josephine (Warner) 
Huntington, both of whom are deceased. The father was a cooperage manufacturer.

     Mr. Huntington attended the public and high schools of Sandusky and 
graduated on completing the academic course of Oberlin College in 1904. He 
went to New York city, where he engaged in the lumber insurance business, 
remaining in that city until 1908, when he came to Portland as the 
representative of a New York lumber insurance company, with which he remained 
until 1912. In that year he established the Portland Rubber mills, having as 
his associate Spencer Smith, who had a practical knowledge of the rubber 
manufacturing business and looked after the technical details, while Mr. 
Huntington took care of the sales end but Mr. Smith is no longer identified 
with the business. The original plant was located on East Ninth street, the 
products consisting of rubber heels, soles and specialties, which were sold 
under the trade name of "Huntington." They began in a small way, but the 
business steadily grew and in 1919 they were compelled to seek larger 
quarters, at which time they came to the present location at 1580 Macadam 
road. In 1921 the company was reorganized under the name of the Huntington 
Rubber Mills and in recent years is making remarkable advance in the volume of 
business. The plant now utilizes fifteen thousand square feet of floor space 
and the mechanical equipment includes four mixing mills, one calendar, and the 
usual smaller equipment, such as heaters and presses. The company now makes 
heels, soles, and a flexible rubber button, a patented article known to the 
trade as "Ever-on," which is made in various colors and is being shipped to 
all parts of the country. The Huntington concern is also putting out an 
anatomical model, life size, made of rubber, the details of which were worked 
out in collaboration with the medical school of the University of Oregon and 
which is to be used in connection with teaching. Mr. Huntington worked out the 
technical manufacturing details and has produced an article of so high a grade 
that several of them have been accepted and are now in use in some of the 
leading medical schools of this country and abroad. The plant turns out about 
ten thousand pairs of rubber heels and from three thousand to five thousand 
pairs of soles a day, which are sold all over the country, about a third of 
the output going east of the Rockies. The company maintains its own sales 
organization, which has been very effective in marketing the products of the 
mills. From fifty to sixty people are given steady employment.

     Mr. Huntington was united in marriage to Miss Nell Orr, of Salem, Ohio, 
and they are the parents of a daughter, Margaret. Mr. Huntington is a member 
of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he was a director for one year, the 
Rotary Club, the University Club and the Lake Oswego Country Club. He was for 
three years president of what is now the Manufacturers Association, and has 
given much of his time to the work of various civic organizations, having 
shown a helpful and effective interest in matters pertaining to the welfare 
and progress of his city. Because of his outstanding business ability and 
success, his public spirit and excellent personal qualities, he has gained an 
enviable place in the estimation of all who have been associated with him, 
while throughout the community he is greatly esteemed.

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