Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Madden, W. E. 1883 - 
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     W. E. MADDEN, district sales agent for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company 
in western Washington and Oregon, with headquarters at Portland, is well 
qualified for the position, in which he has met with notable success, and 
commands the respect of all who have come into contact with him. Mr. Madden 
was born in Texas in 1883 and is a son of J. W. and Bettie (Mitchell) Madden, 
the former now engaged in the practice of law in that state, while the mother 
is deceased.

     Mr. Madden obtained a good public and high school education, after which 
he received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, 
from which he was graduated in 1906. He served as an officer in the navy, with 
active sea duty, for five years, retiring from the service in 1912, and then 
went to Denver. Colorado, where he entered the employ of the Colorado Fuel and 
Iron Company, with which concern he remained until the United States entered 
the World war, in 1917, when he reentered the navy with the rank of lieutenant 
commander. He was first assigned to duty as recruiting officer at Salt Lake 
City, but was later made executive officer of the battleship "Oregon," serving 
as such until May, 1919, since which time he has been on the retired list of 
the navy. In December, 1919, Mr. Madden came to Portland with the Colorado 
Fuel and Iron Company as district sales agent, his territory including the 
western half of Oregon and Washington, in which his patrons are mainly jobbers 
and railroads. Energetic and wide-awake, he has filled this position in an 
eminently satisfactory manner and has built up a large business in his line.

     Mr. Madden is a democrat in his political views, and is a member of the 
University Club, of which he is secretary, the Rotary Club, the Columbia 
Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the American Legion. His daughter, 
Dorothy Sage, who is now sixteen years of age, lives in Minneapolis, 
Minnesota. Mr. Madden is a man of agreeable personality, straightforward in 
manner and has won a large circle of warm friends, who appreciate his genuine 
worth as man and citizen.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 748-749

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