Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....King, L. P. 1889 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 947 - 948
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     L. P. KING.  The oldest and largest soap manufacturing concern in 
Portland is that of the Luckel, King & Cake Soap Company, which is owned by 
the King family, the officers of the company being L. P. King, president: his 
sister, F. S. King, secretary and treasurer, and his mother, Mrs. F. P. King, 
vice president. The enterprise has had a prosperous career, due to the high 
quality of its products and the sound business management which has controlled 
it, and is now one of Portland's substantial industries. The present company 
is the outgrowth of two former concerns, King & Cake and the Luckel Soap 
Company, owned by J. C. Luckel, which were consolidated and brought to the 
present location, at 640 Hood street. The new company later also absorbed the 
Portland Soap and Chemical Company. The firm of King & Cake was established 
about 1887 at Eleventh and Flanders streets, the founders being F. P. King, 
father of the present president, and W. M. Cake, of Portland. They began 
operations on a small scale, but gradually built up the business until in the 
course of time, as their products became known, they were numbered among the 
largest soap manufacturers on the coast. They manufacture Steam Refined Borax, 
Royal White Family Soap, Bar-None Washing Machine Soap, King's Toilet Soap, 
and altogether about forty different brands. Their products are now widely 
known and are popular sellers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, 
California, Alaska and Hawaii. The output is sold through traveling salesmen 
and jobbing houses, the company having eleven representatives on the road, who 
cover the territory in from three to five weeks. About forty men are employed 
in the plant, the annual production of which amounts to between eight and ten 
million pounds.

     L. P. King was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1889, is a son of Frank P. 
and Sarah (Rennick) King, the former a native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. They 
were married in Cleveland, Ohio. For about ten years the father was connected 
with the wholesale grocery house of William Edwards & Company, of Cleveland, 
and in the latter '80s came to Portland, where in 1887 he formed a partnership 
with Mr. Cake, an attorney, the latter being an inactive member of the firm. 
In 1919 F. P. King bought out all the other stockholders in the Luckel, King & 
Cake Soap Company, which had been established in 1880, and thereafter 
conducted the business under its present name until his death, which occurred 
in 1921, since which time his family has carried on the business very 
successfully. F. P. King was a member of the Masonic order, in which he had 
taken the degrees of the Scottish Rite, was a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and 
was also a member of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. To him and his wife 
were born three children, L. P., Frances S. and Queenie.

     L. P. King received his educational training in the public schools of 
Portland and early became associated with his father in the business of which 
he is now the head. In all of his affairs he has shown keen judgment, 
progressive methods and sound principles and holds a high place among the 
enterprising and successful business men of Portland.

     Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Alice Forbes, who was born and 
reared in this city and is a daughter of W. O. and Alice (Piatt) Forbes. They 
are the parents of a son, Forbes. Mr. King is a member of the Chamber of 
Commerce and has been greatly interested in everything relating to the 
business prosperity and progress of his community.

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