Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....McGill, Charles S. May 16, 1884 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 397 - 398
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     CHARLES S. McGILL.  One of the oldest mercantile houses at St. Johns, 
Portland, is that of the St. Johns Hardware Company, which is owned by Charles 
S. McGill and William R. Evens. Mr. McGill has had many years of practical 
experience in the hardware business, has followed progressive methods, has 
adhered to the spirit of the Golden Rule and has therefore enjoyed prosperity. 
He was born at Fargo, North Dakota, on the 16th of May, 1884, and is a son of 
Charles A. and Mary McGill. His parents were early settlers of that state and 
on his arrival there the father took up a homestead, which he developed into a 
productive and valuable farm. In his later years he retired and located in 
Fargo, where he lived until 1898, when he brought his family to Portland, and 
here spent his remaining years, engaging in the restaurant business about a 
year prior to his death, which occurred in February, 1923. He is survived by 
his widow, who still resides in this city.

     Charles S. McGill received his educational training in the public schools 
of West Superior and Portland, having been about fourteen years of age when 
the family came here. He entered the employ of the Marshall-Wells Hardware 
Company as a salesman, remaining with that concern for six and a half years, 
and in 1908 came to St. Johns, where in partnership with William R. Evens, he 
bought the hardware business of Potter & Gould, at which time the style of the 
firm was changed to that of the St. Johns Hardware Company. They carry a large 
and well selected stock of shelf and heavy hardware, implements, stoves and 
auxiliary lines, and during the score of years that they have conducted the 
business have enjoyed a large patronage throughout this locality.

     In 1911 Mr. McGill was united in marriage to Miss Genevieve Brodahl, of 
St. Johns, and they are the parents of two children, Donald and Dorothy. The 
republican party receives Mr. McGill's support and he has at all times shown a 
commendable interest in matters affecting the welfare and prosperity of his 
section of the county, giving his earnest support to every movement having for 
its object the advancement of the public interests. He belongs to the Masons, 
the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World and the Columbia Country 
Club. A man of high principles and sincere purposes, he has long commanded the 
unqualified confidence of his fellowmen and is deservedly popular among his 
acquaintances.

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