Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Lea, Albert June 4, 1872 - 
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Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     ALBERT H. LEA, secretary-treasurer and general manager of the National 
Finance and Insurance Company, of Portland, is a man of wide business 
experience and mature judgment and for twenty-five years has been active in 
the business affairs of this city, gaining a high reputation for reliability 
and trustworthiness. Mr. Lea was born in Amherst, Portage County, Wisconsin, 
on the 4th of June, 1872, and is a son of Jesse and Mary A. (Stephens) Lea, 
the former a farmer by occupation, and both are now deceased.

     Albert H. Lea completed the public school course and entered the 
University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1893. He became 
identified with the creamery business and during the ensuing years served as 
manager of several large creameries, including the New Lyme Cooperative 
Creamery Company, at New Lyme, Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he remained for 
several years. On January 1, 1903, Mr. Lea came to Portland as field manager 
for the Hazelwood Company, buying and establishing outside creameries. He 
remained with that concern until 1913, when he resigned to accept the position 
of manager of the produce department of Swift & Company, in which capacity he 
served until 1917. For about seven years he was secretary and manager of the 
Oregon State Fair and in 1923 became general manager of the Oregon Cooperative 
Grain Growers. He remained with that organization until 1926, when he resigned 
and organized the National Finance and Insurance Company, of which he is 
secretary-treasurer and manager. This concern handles mortgage loans and has 
built up a gratifying business, now having over two million dollars loaned 
out. The company is also engaged in a general insurance business, acting as 
general agent for a number of this country's strongest and most important 
companies. Mr. Lea is devoting his attention closely to the interests of his 
company and has shown high business qualifications and wise discrimination in 
directing its affairs.

     In 1902 Mr. Lea was united in marriage to Miss Winnifred Gibson, of 
Centerville, Wisconsin, and to them have been born two children, Elizabeth, 
who is deceased, and Loraine, now twelve years of age. In his political views 
Mr. Lea is in accord with the republican party and is greatly interested in 
public affairs. Fraternally he is a member of Trempeleau Lodge, No. 117, A. F. 
& A. M., at Trempeleau, Wisconsin, has attained the Knight Templar degree in 
the York rite and the thirty-second degree in the Scottish rite; and belongs 
to Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of which he was potentate in 1920. He 
is also a member of Portland Lodge No. 142, B. P. O. E., and the Woodmen of 
the World, of which he was council commander while living in Ohio. He is a 
member of the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, served for two years as 
president of the Oregon State Motor Association, and has been a director of 
various Masonic clubs. An active, aggressive, wide-awake man, he does well 
whatever he undertakes, has won the uniform confidence and respect of all with 
whom he has been associated and enjoys well merited popularity wherever known.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 793-794

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