Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Peer, William C.  July 8, 1869 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 333 - 334
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     WILLIAM C. PEER, manager at Portland for Lees Brothers of New York, was 
born in Ionia, Michigan, on the 8th of July, 1869, and is a son of Philander 
and Victoria Peer, the former a farmer and both of whom are now deceased. 
William C. Peer received a good education in the public schools of his native 
state and was first regularly employed as a clerk in a retail store in Ionia. 
He was in business for himself for awhile, after which he was a traveling 
salesman for John V. Farwell for several years. Again he engaged in a 
mercantile business at Ionia on his own account, and later he went on the road 
again as a traveling salesman. In 1908 he came to Portland and was employed in 
the same capacity for some time, after which he traveled out of New York city 
until May 1, 1911, when he became associated with Lees Brothers as their 
representative in Seattle, Washington. In 1913 he opened an office in Portland 
for Lees Brothers and has since served here as manager. He is a wholesale 
dealer in ready-to-wear garments and covers the states of Oregon, Idaho and 
Utah and part of Washington. He has been tireless in his efforts to build up 
the business and now commands a very satisfactory trade throughout this 
territory.

     Mr. Peer was married to Miss Jessie Stone, who was born and reared in 
Michigan, and who died, leaving two children, Theo, who married Max Flemming 
and resides in Portland, and Russell S., who is with the Richfield Gas Company 
in Portland. For his second wife Mr. Peer chose Miss Sarah Louise Welch, of 
Michigan. He owns a comfortable and attractive home at 690 Weidler street. He 
gives his political support to the republican party and is a member of the 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Chamber of Commerce. He is the 
representative of one of the largest jobbing houses in the United States, 
having offices in all of the principal cities of the country, and his success 
in his present field has been due to his persistent and determined efforts, 
backed by sound and discriminating judgment. He carries from twenty thousand 
to eighty thousand dollars worth of goods and is thus enabled to give prompt 
delivery to his patrons.

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