Multnomah-Yamhill County OR Archives Biographies.....McDonald, William Douglas January 3, 1858 - November 19, 1921
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 539
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     WILLIAM DOUGLAS McDONALD, who spent the evening of his life in honorable 
retirement in Portland, following many years' identification with financial 
affairs, came to Oregon with his parents when a lad of seven years and had 
attained the age of sixty-three when he passed away November 19, 1921. He was 
born in Page county, Iowa, January 3, 1858, his parents being M. M. and Mary 
A. McDonald, who came to this state in 1865 and settled in Yamhill county. The 
father died when his son William was fourteen years of age.

     William D. McDonald obtained his initial experience in the business world 
as an employe in a private bank conducted at McMinnville by his father-in-law, 
John Columbus Braley. When this institution discontinued business he entered 
the First National Bank of McMinnville, which he represented throughout the 
remainder of his active career. Following his retirement in 1908 he took up 
his abode in Portland, where he continued to reside until the time of his 
death.

     In early manhood Mr. McDonald was united in marriage to Susan Isabelle 
Braley, daughter of John C. Braley, extended reference to whom is made on 
another page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald became the parents of a 
daughter, Mary Effie, who is now the wife of Lew Wallace Going and a daughter-
in-law of Alvin C. Going, mentioned at length on another page of this 
publication. Mr. McDonald was a prominent figure in the local ranks of the 
democratic party and long enjoyed high standing as a worthy and influential 
citizen. His widow makes her home at 273 East Sixteenth street, north, in 
Portland, where the circle of her friends is a wide one.

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