Multnomah-Wasco County OR Archives Biographies.....Neuhausen, Thomas B. November 2, 1872 - 
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     THOMAS B. NEUHAUSEN, who for twenty years has been actively engaged in 
the real estate business in Portland, had previously given his government a 
long period of honorable and valued service in various capacities, and is now 
numbered among those whose activities have contributed to the growth and 
development of his city. Mr. Neuhausen was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, on 
the 2d of November, 1872, and is a son of Carl and Elizabeth (Brues) 
Newhausen. In 1884 the family moved to St. Paul. Minnesota, where the father 
served as city editor of a German daily newspaper, his death there occurring. 
The mother later came to Portland, Oregon, where her death occurred in 1923.
     T. B. Neuhausen attended the public schools of St. Paul, graduating from 
the Central high school, and also from the St. Paul Teachers’ Training School. 
He engaged in teaching school for two years, and then received an appointment 
as secretary to the American counsul at Bamberg, Bavaria, where he remained 
two years, during which period he also studied at the Lyceum. On his return to 
St. Paul he took an active part in the historic political campaign of 1896, 
acting as manager for the McKinley campaign in part of St. Paul.  During the 
ensuing three years he was employed as a correspondent on the St. Paul Globe 
and in 1899 was made superintendent of the telephone and telegraph system in 
the national house of representatives at Washington, which position he held 
for one year, during which period he acted also as Washington correspondent 
for the St. Paul Globe. In May, 1900, Mr. Neuhausen was appointed a special 
agent for the general land office at Ashland, Wisconsin, having charge of the 
northern part of that state, and remained there until October, 1903, when he 
was transferred to The Dalles, Oregon, in the same capacity. In 1904 he was 
promoted to the position of special agent in charge of all land office work in 
Oregon, serving as such until December, 1904, when Secretary Hitchcock ordered 
him to report at Portland in connection with the Oregon land fraud cases, in 
which work Mr. Newhausen was associated with Francis J. Heney from December 
1901, to 1907. In 1905 he was inspector of United States land offices and 
surveyors-general throughout the country. In the following year he was 
appointed chief inspector for the interior department and was stationed at 
Portland, where he served until September, 1908, when he resigned from the 
government service. He turned his attention to the real estate and investment 
business, in which he met with success, and is now regarded one of the ablest 
and efficient realtors of the city. He makes a specialty of fine homes and 
business properties and has succeeded in effecting many large deals.
     On December 6, 1899, Mr. Neuhausen was united in marriage to Miss Maude 
L. Lyon, a daughter of William Walter Lyon, of Staunton, Virginia, but who was 
living in St. Paul, Minnesota, at the time of her marriage. Mr. Neuhausen is a 
republican and has taken a great interest in public affairs. He was co-manager 
of Senator McNary’s primary campaign in 1918, managed Senator Stanfield’s 
campaign in 1920, and in 1898, 1900 and 1902 served as manager for Frederick 
C. Stevens’ campaigns for congress in St. Paul. In 1913 he was state chairman 
of the progressive party in Oregon and in 1916 was vice-chairman of the Hughes 
state campaign committee. During the World war he served as chairman of the 
committee on coordination of government drives in Oregon. He is a York and 
Scottish Rite Mason and Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and he belongs to the 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Multnomah Club, the Progressive 
Business Men’s Club and the Chamber of Commerce, of which he has served on the 
membership committee. He is a man of high principles and substantial 
qualities, progressive and reliable in business, loyal in citizenship and 
constant in friendship, so that he is well worthy of the confidence and 
respect in which he is held throughout the community which is honored by his 
residence.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 409-410

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