Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Lange, F. W. 1876 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 110-111
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     Probably no city in the country has a wider diversity of useful and 
valuable products than has Portland, and among those of particular worth 
is "Lange's Mineral Wonder," which is made and sold by F. W. Lange, who is 
meeting with very gratifying success. This business was established in June, 
1910, by Mr. Lange and his father, under the firm name of H. W. Lange & Son, 
who began the preparation of certain mineral salts, containing principally 
sulphur and iron, to be used as a tonic for the human body. The compound was 
so successful in its results that during the subsequent years it has had a 
tremendous growth in popularity and is now sold throughout the United States 
and Mexico. The remedy contains elemental mineral ingredients only, its great 
beneficial qualities being due wholly to its remarkable chemical affinity for 
the blood, because of which it is claimed to be specific for the maintenance 
of the blood in its original purity, so that it is said to be clearly 
indicated in cases of anaemia. The material from which this remedy is made 
comes from about ninety miles west of Great Falls, Montana, where the salts 
are mined. They are shipped to the plant laboratory in Portland, where they 
are boiled down and crystallized, this process being repeated until all 
impurities are removed, the result being sulphur, in the form of soluble 
sulphur salt, and iron in the form of an oxide, both of which are ground and 
dried, in which form it is marketed. In use it is mixed with the proper 
proportion of water. The business is conducted from the Portland office, at 
231 Main street, and is wholesale only. The company owns the mines from which 
the raw materials are produced. Mr. Lange in recommending and selling the 
remedy has always emphasized the statement that it is not a "cure-all," but a 
beneficial and helpful tonic. It is his intention to change the name of the 
compound to "Lange's Mineral Remedy."

     F. W. Lange was born in New York city in 1876 and is a son of H. W. and 
Doris (MacDonald) Lange. His father was born in New York city, March 12, 1849, 
and died in 1915. In 1876 he went to Montana as a pioneer, locating on the Sun 
river, forty-seven miles west of Great Falls, where he took up a homestead. At 
that time that section of country was full of buffaloes. Indian troubles were 
frequent, at which times the family took refuge at Fort Shaw, which was 
nineteen miles east of their home. They lived on the homestead until 1908, 
when they moved to Coeur d'Alene, and two years later they came to Portland 
and began the exploitation of the minerals referred to in the preceding 
paragraph, to which the father devoted the last five years of his life. He was 
married in New York in 1875, his wife being a native of that city.

     F. W. Lange was about four months old when taken by his parents to their 
frontier home in Montana, and he has a distinct recollection of the Indian 
scares which occasionally lent variety to their lives. He attended the public 
schools of Great Falls and had two years in the medical school of Northwestern 
University, at Evanston, Illinois. On the death of his mother, in 1897, he 
laid aside his textbooks and returned to the home ranch, where he assisted his 
father, with whom he was associated until the latter's death, and during the 
past eighteen years he has devoted his attention to his remedy manufacturing 
interests.

     In 1911, in Portland, Mr. Lange was united in marriage to Miss Margaret 
M. Miller, who was born and reared at Great Falls, Montana, and to them has 
been born a son, Fred W., who is now attending high school. Mr. Lange is a 
member of the Loyal Order of Moose and the Portland Chamber of Commerce. He 
has won high regard because he is a man of sincere purpose, straightforward 
manner and honorable business methods.

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