Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Osborne, Clyde W. 1884 - 
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     CLYDE W. OSBORNE.  Among the men who are exerting their efforts to 
preserve the timber resources of the United States is numbered Clyde W. 
Osborne, an executive of the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company of Portland 
and nationally known as an authority on matters pertaining to the creosoting 
industry. A native of Maine, he was born in 1884, a son of John E. and Alice 
B. (Burpee) Osborne. His father was a grower and shipper of potatoes and died 
in the Pine Tree state. Afterward the mother came to Portland, Oregon, and is 
still a resident of the city.

     Clyde W. Osborne was appointed to Annapolis but conditions prevented him 
from attending the United States Naval Academy. He was a student at Bowdoin 
College and completed his education in the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology. His first position was that of manager at Houlton, Maine, for the 
American Telegraph & Telephone Company and in 1910 he went to Somerville, 
Texas, where he spent two years in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad 
Company. On the expiration of that period he was transferred to Topeka, 
Kansas, and was made chief treating inspector. After severing his connection 
with the Santa Fe Railroad, Mr. Osborne went to Carbondale, Illinois, 
accepting a position with the firm of Ayer & Lord, and from 1914 until 1918 
was superintendent of their timber-treating plant, the largest in the world. 
He returned to Maine, expecting to enter upon active military service, but 
instead was assigned to duty in the department of railroad administration and 
for a year was stationed at Shreveport, Louisiana. At the end of that time he 
returned to the Santa Fe Railroad and for about nine months had charge of 
special work in the timber-treating department. While acting as timber-
treating inspector he covered the entire system, walking five miles on every 
division of the road. In January, 1920, he came to Portland, Oregon, as a 
representative of the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company and at the time the 
consolidation was effected became manager of the St. Helens Creosoting 
Company, a subsidiary of the parent corporation. Mr. Osborne has since filled 
this responsible position and gives to the firm the services of one of the 
leading experts in this line in the United States. The Charles R. McCormick 
Lumber Company has two mills at St. Helens and also operates plants at Port 
Gamble and Port Ludlow, Washington. In the manufacture of lumber it leads all 
other firms on the Pacific coast and creosotes from twenty-four to thirty-six 
million feet of timber per year.

     In 1914 Mr. Osborne married Louise Chase, also a native of Maine, and 
they have become the parents of three children: Peggy, Jack and Bion. In 
politics Mr. Osborne follows an independent course, casting his ballot for 
those candidates whom he considers best qualified for office and supporting 
measures of reform, progress and improvement. His social nature finds 
expression in his affiliation with the Oswego Country Club and the Multnomah 
Club, while along fraternal lines he is identified with the Masonic order. An 
influential member of the American Wood Preservers Association, he has been 
chosen as one of the directors of its service bureau and also belongs to the 
Association of American Railway Engineers, serving on important committees 
having to do with wood preservation. Through tireless effort and the wise 
utilization of the talents with which nature endowed him, Mr. Osborne has 
attained a position of distinction in his chosen vocation, and a winning 
personality has drawn to him a wide circle of sincere friends.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 658-659

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