Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Meier, Abraham March 9, 1888 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 649 - 650
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     ABRAHAM MEIER.  One of the outstanding figures in the commercial affairs 
of Portland is Abraham Meier, president of the firm of Meier & Frank, whose 
great department store is one of this city's most important business 
establishments. He was practically reared in this business, of which he has 
been the executive head for the past seventeen years, and is regarded as one 
of Portland's able and most successful merchants. Born in Portland on the 9th 
of March, 1888, he is a son of Aaron Meier, extended mention of whom appears 
elsewhere in this work.

     Abraham Meier received his educational training in the Harrison street 
public school and the high school, and then entered his father's store, with 
which he has since been actively identified. In the course of time he became 
an expert in his judgment of merchandise and in this particular field is 
regarded as one of the leaders in this section of the country. He held various 
official positions in the business and on March 6, 1911, was made president of 
the company, which position he still retains. In the '90s the present splendid 
store building was erected on Fifth, Morrison and Alder street, beyond what 
was then the retail district of the city, and the subsequent trend of business 
abundantly vindicated the judgment of the firm as to location. Mr. Meier has 
continued the business along the same progressive and capable manner that 
characterized his father's career, and has added prestige to a name already 
illustrious in this city for commercial achievement.

     In 1895 Mr. Meier was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Eising, of New 
York city, and to them have been born four children, namely: Harold, who died 
at the age of nineteen years; Allen, who is general merchandise man in his 
father's business; Jeanette, the wife of Walter Heller, of San Francisco, 
California; and Frank, who is in the Montezuma Mountain School in California.

     Mr. Meier is a member of the Auld Lang Syne Society, the Native Sons of 
Oregon, the Concordia Club, the Tualatin Country Club and the Portland Chamber 
of Commerce. He gives his political support to the republican party and has 
ever shown a deep interest in everything pertaining to the public welfare. 
Because of his sterling character, distinctive business ability and splendid 
success, he commands public confidence and regard and is recognized as one of 
Portland's representative men of affairs.

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