Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....McMicken, A. Craig November 2, 1885 - 
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     A. CRAIG McMICKEN.  The Portland Electric Power Company has been 
fortunate in its selection of the heads of its departments, and in no 
particular instance is this more apparent than in that A. Craig McMicken is 
general sales manager, holding one of the important positions in the 
organization. His energetic and judicious efforts have been reflected in the 
steady increase in the company's volume of business. Mr. McMicken was born in 
Fillmore, Utah, on the 2d of November, 1885, and is a son of Dr. J. J. and 
Mary A. (Craig) McMicken. His father was born in Hamilton, Butler county, 
Ohio, and became a pioneer of Wyoming, where he engaged in the cattle 
business. Later he went to Utah and followed the same line of effort, and in 
that state met and married Miss Craig, who was born in New Alexandria, 
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where she was reared, and then went to Utah 
as a Presbyterian missionary teacher. In 1886 the family returned east, 
locating in Cincinnati, Ohio, where the father entered a medical college, from 
which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1890 he came 
to Portland, where he and his wife spent their remaining years. A. Craig 
McMicken secured his education in the public schools of Portland and at the 
age of sixteen years went to work for the Portland General Electric Company as 
a delivery boy, in which capacity he was employed for two years, at a salary 
of thirty-five dollars a month. Later he became a freight handler in the 
warehouse, but was afterward transferred to a clerkship in the retail electric 
department. Here he  quickly demonstrated his ability as a salesman and was in 
a short time assigned to the work of selling electric motors. In about 1907 he 
was made manager of the supply department, and the same year was promoted to 
contract agent, having charge of light and power sales. In 1911 Mr. McMicken 
was made sales manager for the Portland district, which position he held with 
great success until June, 1926, when he was made general sales manager for the 
entire system. He has charge of the rates and tariffs for light, power and 
gas, as well as the sale of light, power and merchandise, and has supervision 
of all district sales offices, which cover a large part of the state of Oregon 
and some territory in Washington. He is also a director of the Union Savings 
and Loan Association.
	
     In 1911 Mr. McMicken was united in marriage to Miss Vivian Holmes, a 
daughter of E. B. Holmes, a pioneer of Portland, where he is successfully 
engaged in the real estate business. Mr. and Mrs. McMicken are the parents of 
two children, Janet, who is thirteen years old, and Barbara, aged ten years. 
Mr. McMicken is a member of the	Woodmen of the World; the Portland Golf Club, 
of which he is secretary; the Ad Club, of which he is a past president; is 
president of the Northwestern Electric Power Association, and the Chamber of 
Commerce, of which he was the first secretary of the members' forum. He gives 
his political support to the republican party and has shown a commendable 
interest in public affairs.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 815-816

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