Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Mersereau, E. L. 1884 - 
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     E. L. MERSEREAU.  Important commercial interests claim the attention of 
E. L. Mersereau, a well known lumberman and valuable citizen of Portland. A 
native of Portville, New York, he was born in 1884 and attended the public 
schools of the Empire state. His studies were completed in Yale University, 
from which he received the A. B. degree in 1906, and in the following year he 
came to Portland with his parents, W. B. and Helen (Leavens) Mersereau, the 
latter still living in this city. For two years E. L. Mersereau was connected 
with logging operations on the Cowlitz river in association with his father, 
who purchased the mill of C. A. Doty in 1909 and successfully operated the 
plant until his death five years later. E. L. Mersereau was made secretary and 
sales manager of the Doty Lumber & Shingle Company, of which he has been vice 
president and sales manager since 1914, and his brother, R. W. Mersereau, is 
president of the firm, which opened an office in the Public Service building 
in Portland on January 1, 1928. In addition E. L. Mersereau is vice president 
and a director of the Elk Creek & Grays Harbor Railway Company, treasurer and 
a director of the Nelson Lumber Company, and his name also appears on the 
directorates of the Doty Boom Company and the Sixth Street Terminal Company.

     In 1913 Mr. Mersereau married Miss Lucille Parker, a daughter of Charles 
Parker, of Portland, and they now have a family of three children: John, 
Roland and June. Mr. Mersereau is an adherent of the republican party and a 
member of the University, Waverley. Multnomah and Lake Oswego Clubs.


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History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
666

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