Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Meyer, Ernest H. 1880 - 
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     ERNEST H. MEYER.  In the training school of life Ernest H. Meyer has 
registered achievement, proving his ability to meet and master situations, and 
is widely and favorably known as one of the officers of the Charles R. 
McCormick Lumber Company, maintaining his headquarters in Portland. He was 
born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1880 and when a youth of fifteen went to 
Minnesota, locating in Duluth in 1895. On July 4 of that year he entered the 
employ of P. M. Shaw, Jr., & Company and thus began his training for the 
business which has constituted his life work. In 1907 he came to Portland and 
opened an office for the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company, a Delaware 
corporation, of which he has since been local manager. About 1910 the firm 
extended its manufacturing operations to St. Helens, Oregon, where it now 
maintains two mills with a capacity of three hundred and twenty-five thousand 
feet of lumber per eight-hour shift. The creosoting plant is situated at St. 
Helens and work is furnished to about five hundred persons. The company has 
mills at Port Gamble and Port Ludlow, Washington, and is the largest firm of 
the kind on the Pacific coast, manufacturing over seven hundred and fifty 
thousand feet of lumber per day. Affiliated with this corporation are the 
McCormick Steamship Company and the McCormick Terminal, both of which are 
prosperous concerns. Seven steamers are utilized in maintaining the Munson-
McCormick service on the eastern coast, while six vessels are required for the 
South American trade, and in all the corporation operates seventeen coastwise 
steamers. The Portland office is situated on the ninth floor of the Yeon 
building and the other offices are located in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, 
San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York city. Charles R. McCormick is 
president of the company and his associates are: Sidney M. Hauptman, first 
vice president; Ernest H. Meyer, vice president and sales manager; C. E. 
Helms, vice president; and James S. Brown, secretary-treasurer. 

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 767

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