Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....McMurtry, Willis H. 1880 - 
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Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     WILLIS H. McMURTRY, secretary and treasurer of the Colonial Warehouse and 
Transfer Company, of Portland, has had fourteen years of experience in this 
line of business and is highly qualified for the position which he holds. He 
was born in Eureka, Woodford county, Illinois, in 1880, and is a son of Lewis 
and Hattie (Cripps) McMurtry, the former born in Nicholasville, Kentucky, and 
the latter in Eureka, Illinois. His father was a painter and contractor and 
lived in Kentucky until 1907, when he moved to Seattle, Washington, where he 
was in business until his retirement, and still resides in that city. The 
mother is deceased.

     Willis H. McMurtry attended the public schools of Nicholasville, after 
which he took a commercial course in a business college there. For a few years 
he was employed as a bookkeeper, and in 1907 accompanied his parents on their 
removal to Seattle, Washington. Later he moved to Yakima, that state, where he 
lived until 1914, when he came to Portland and entered the employ of the 
Manning Warehouse and Transfer Company, which he served as secretary until 
1920, when he went to the Oregon Transfer Company. On December 14, 1923, he 
and P. G. Bettendorf  organized the Colonial Warehouse and Transfer Company, 
of which he became secretary and treasurer, Mr. Bettendorf being president. 
They are located at Thirteenth and Everett streets, where they have a four-
story brick warehouse, of mill construction, one hundred by one hundred feet, 
and equipped with a modern sprinkler system for fire protection. They also 
have, on Davis street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, a five-story 
warehouse, one hundred by two hundred feet, which is used for the storage of 
wool, of which commodity they handle great quantities. Railroad spurs to both 
warehouses are convenient for the receiving and shipping of goods and they are 
in every respect well equipped for the successful conducting of the business, 
which has shown a healthy and substantial growth.

     In 1909 Mr. McMurtry was united in marriage to Miss Lucy Sheridan, a 
direct descendant of General Phil Sheridan. To them have been born three 
children, namely: Eleanor, who is now fifteen years of age; Catherine, aged 
thirteen; and Margaret, aged three years. Mr. McMurtry is a democrat in his 
political views and has been a member of the Rotary Club since 1915. He is a 
man of sterling personal qualities, possesses sound business judgment, worthy 
ideals and an agreeable personality, and all who know him hold him in the 
highest regard.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
933

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