Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Marsh, Arthur C. May 10, 1881 - 
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     ARTHUR C. MARSH is an astute financier with a background of more than 
thirty years of practical experience and exerts a strong influence in 
investment banking circles of Portland as the executive head of a large 
corporation which handles first mortgages and bonds. He was born May 10, 1881, 
in Quincy, Illinois, his parents being Wilbur Clark and Katherine (Sedgwick) 
Marsh, who are deceased. His public school education was supplemented by 
attendance at Columbia College and soon after leaving that institution of 
learning he entered the National City Bank of New York, where he received 
excellent training. During the underwriting by J. P. Morgan & Company, of the 
United States Steel Corporation, he was with the New York Security & Trust 
Company, now the New York Trust Company, and was next in the employ of the 
Title Guarantee & Trust Company of New York. For a time he was associated with 
Hon. Charles S. Fairchild, secretary of the treasury of the United States 
during the Cleveland administration, and had public accounting training with 
the General Audit Company of New York during the organization and 
reorganization of some of today's leading rail, steel, copper, motor and 
utility corporations. He served for eight years as secretary-treasurer of the 
Cobbs & Mitchell Company, engaged in the manufacture of lumber and by-products 
in Cadillac, Michigan, and Portland, Oregon, and for two years, until 1926, 
was attorney-in-fact and district manager of the National Mortgage Company of 
California.

     In 1926 he organized The Arthur C. Marsh Company, which is engaged in the 
business of buying and selling mortgages and bond issues on improved and 
income-producing city real estate. Its funds are vested wholly in real estate 
mortgages and other acceptable collateral. The company purchases mortgages and 
bond issues at a reasonable discount and realizes a profit thereon by their 
sale to investors at full face value. At the present time the firm is 
confining its leading operations to the large and medium-sized cities of 
Oregon through the Portland offices, but as rapidly as competent 
representation can be secured other agencies will be established and leading 
operations extended to cover the entire Pacific coast from Seattle to San 
Diego. The authorized capital of the company is seven hundred and fifty 
thousand dollars and the assets on May 31, 1928, amounted to four hundred 
seventy-five thousand and eight hundred dollars. Since its organization The 
Arthur C. Marsh Company has adhered to the most conservative policies, thus 
inspiring public trust and confidence, and as a natural result the business 
has enjoyed a rapid growth. The present officers are: Arthur C. Marsh, 
president and treasurer; W. Lair Thompson and William G. Phoenix, vice 
presidents; and Frank B. Mitchell, secretary. Their associates on the board of 
directors are J. H. Lausmann, Ross B. Hammond and Wilbur T. Marsh.

     Arthur C. Marsh was married December 25, 1907, to Miss Maybel Alvord, of 
Seward, Nebraska, and both are distinct adjuncts to the social life of 
Portland. Thoroughness and conscientiousness have always characterized his 
work and each step in his career has been an upward one, bringing him a 
broader outlook and wider opportunities. A large and efficiently managed 
business is the visible result of his powers of organization and 
administration, and his high ideals and standards are reflected in the methods 
followed by the house.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 890-893

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