Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Salomon, Sidney H. May 25, 1886 - 
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     SIDNEY H. SALOMON.  One of the oldest and successful fire insurance 
agencies in Portland is that conducted by Sidney H. Salomon. His family has 
long been prominent in the business circles of this city and Mr. Salomon has, 
by his honorable business career, added luster to the family prestige 
established by his father through his many years of worthy and successful 
effort. Mr. Salomon was born in Junction City, Oregon, May 25, 1886, and is a 
son of Louis and Hattie (Simon) Salomon. The father was born in Hesse 
Darmstadt, Germany, March 11, 1846 and in 1859, when a boy of thirteen years, 
crossed the ocean on a sailing vessel, landing at Philadelphia, where lived an 
uncle of his. In 1863 he went to California, where he remained until 1866, 
when he came to Portland, Oregon, and for a time was employed as a clerk in 
Haas Brothers' store. Later he had a store of his own at Long Tom, Lane 
county, but moved from there to Lancaster. When Ben Holladay laid out the town 
of Junction City, Mr. Salomon was offered his choice of a building site for a 
store, without cost, if he would move to the town, and he accepted the offer. 
Thus he established the first store there and was closely and actively 
identified with the development and upbuilding of that place until his store 
was destroyed by fire, in 1888, when he came to Portland and engaged in the 
real estate business. While at Junction City he became the largest wheat buyer 
in the Willamette valley. At Portland Mr. Salomon met with success as a 
realtor remaining in that business to the time of his death, which occurred in 
1916.  Hattie (Simon) Salomon was born at Meisenheim, Germany, and came to 
Portland with her parents about 1870. Her father, Samuel Simon, settled on a 
tract of land now known as the Simon addition, at East Twenty-sixth and 
Division streets, and there the daughter became the wife of Louis Salomon, on 
December 9, 1877. They had four children, namely: Adolph; Claudia, who became 
the wife of C. S. Samuel and has two children, Millard A. and Leo; Sylvia A., 
the wife of Sigmund Sonnenberg, of San Francisco; and Sidney H. The mother of 
these children passed away May 5, 1919. Mr. Salmon was a man of great energy, 
was progressive in his business ideas and sound in his methods, so that he 
contributed in definite measure to the development and upbuilding of Portland 
and commanded a place among its enterprising and successful men, being held in 
great esteem by all who knew him.

     Sidney H. Salomon attended the public schools and took a commercial 
course in the Portland Business College. For about seven years he was in the 
employ of Flieshner & Meyer, after which he was associated with his father in 
the latter's real estate business until September 19, 1911, when he engaged in 
the fire insurance business. This proved a successful venture and in April, 
1917, he consolidated his business with that of Gus Rosenblatt. The latter's 
business had its origin in 1879, when the Liverpool and London and Globe 
Insurance Company appointed Philip C. Schuyler its general agent for Oregon. 
This agency was taken over by Gus Rosenblatt on November 22, 1889, and on 
January 1, 1905, the firm became G. Rosenblatt & Company. On the consolidation 
of the two firms, in April, 1917, the business became known as Rosenblatt & 
Salomon, under which name it was conducted until Mr. Salomon became the sole 
owner. On March 15, 1928, he sold an interest in the business to Sigfried 
Hirsch, since which time the business has been conducted under the name of 
Salomon & Hirsch. They handle fire and casualty insurance, representing many 
of the strongest and best known companies in the world, being general agents 
for some and local agents for others, and it is worthy of note that among the 
firm's customers are some who have been on their books continuously for over 
forty years. They command their full share of the local business and are 
regarded as among the most reliable and successful firms in their line in 
Portland.

     In November, 1924, Mr. Salomon was united in marriage to Miss Drusilla 
Moody, of Shaniko, Oregon, whose father, William Moody (whose sketch appears 
elsewhere in this publication), was a son of Governor Moody and one of the 
early pioneers of this state. By a former marriage, Mrs. Salomon is the mother 
of two sons and a daughter. Mr. Salomon is a republican in his political views 
and during all the years of his residence here he has shown a commendable 
interest in the welfare and prosperity of his community. He is a member of the 
Tualatin Golf Club and the Concordia Club and wherever known enjoys well 
merited popularity.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 708-709

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