Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Long, Walter S. 1895 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 979 - 980
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     WALTER S. LONG.  The largest and most important firm in the northwest 
dealing in fire-fighting apparatus and supplies is the A. G. Long Company, 
Inc., of Portland, of which Walter S. Long is president, and which bears a 
high reputation for its honorable business methods and reliability. Walter S. 
Long was born in Portland in 1895 and is a son of A. G. and Ada (Scott) Long. 
In 1889 the family located in Salem, Oregon, where the father was engaged in 
the banking business until 1893, when he came to Portland and entered the fire 
apparatus business, carrying a complete line of all goods required by a fire 
department. From that time to the present this firm has supplied Portland with 
all of its fire department needs and has built up a reputation second to no 
other business concern. Both parents are deceased, the mother dying in 1920 
and the father in August, 1922. Mr. Long had a summer home at Seaside, Oregon, 
and was a large factor in the development of that community. He was a 
Consistory Mason and a member of Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S.; Portland 
Lodge, B. P. O. E.; Portland Lodge, K. P.; the Grotto and the Woodmen of the 
World. He was a republican in his political views.

     Walter S. Long attended the public schools and graduated from Portland 
Academy. He entered Phillips-Exeter Academy, from which he was graduated in 
1914, after which he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at 
Cambridge. In 1917 he enlisted in the ordnance department of the United States 
Army, was commissioned a first lieutenant and was sent overseas. He 
participated in a number of important operations, including Chateau-Thiery, 
Sedan and Toul, and was recommended for promotion to the rank of major, but 
the war closed before the recommendation was acted upon. On his return to this 
country he was honorably discharged and immediately became associated in 
business with his father in Portland, the complete management of which he 
assumed on his father’s death.  The business was incorporated in 1923 as the 
A. G. Long Company, of which Mr. Long is president, and W. S. Barnes, manager. 
He handles equipment made by the Ahrens-Fox Fire Equipment Company, the Peter 
Pirsch Company, the Fabric Fire Hose Company, the Sterling Siren Fire Alarm 
Company, and the C. O. Two Fire Equipment Company, makers of carbon-dioxide 
gas, and also handles other supplies, including first aid and safety-first 
devices, his stock including over sixty-five thousand items. The company owns 
and occupies a two-story building, fifty by one hundred feet, at 212 North 
Sixteenth street, and carries a stock invoiced at over eighty thousand 
dollars. The territory covered by this firm includes Oregon, Washington, 
Idaho, northwestern Canada and Alaska, and the company has seven traveling 
representatives.

	     In August, 1923, Mr. Long was united in marriage to Miss Zettye 
Fritzh, of Portland. He is a Mason, belonging to Portland Consistory, A. A. S. 
R. and Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is also a member of Portland 
Lodge, B. P. O. E., the Woodmen of the World, the Kappa Delta Pi fraternity of 
Phillips-Exeter, the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity of Portland, the City Club, 
the Lions Club, the One Hundred Per Cent Club and the Portland Chamber of 
Commerce. Mr. Long has evinced a genuine interest in everything relating to 
the welfare and prosperity of his home city, is energetic and progressive in 
his business ideas and methods and holds a high place in the business circles 
of Portland, commanding the respect of all who know him.

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