Multnomah-Umatilla-Statewide County OR Archives Biographies.....Sault, George W. 1871 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com September 21, 2009, 12:28 pm Source: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company Photo may be seen at http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/photos/bios/sault835gbs.jpg GEORGE W. SAULT, the able superintendent of the Washougal Woolen Mills, at Washougal, Washington, has spent practically his life in the woolen manufacturing business, which he thoroughly understands in every detail, and has shown himself well qualified for the responsible position which he holds. He was born in 1871, about sixty miles from Toronto, in Ontario, Canada, and is a son of S. and Caroline Sault, both of whom are deceased. He attended the public schools and in the woolen mills of that locality gained his first knowledge of the business. He came to the Pacific coast in 1899, locating at Dallas, Oregon, where he was employed for a short time as boss carder for the Dallas Woolen Mill, after which he was with the Portland Woolen Mills from 1902 to 1904. In the following year he went to Albany, Oregon, and was connected with the Bannockburn Woolen Mill, but the plant was destroyed by fire soon afterward, and he returned to the Portland Woolen Mills, where he remained until January, 1906, when he went to Santa Rosa, California, as boss carder for the Santa Rosa Woolen Mills. A short time afterward he went to the Napa Woolen Mills, at Napa, California, and when that business was moved to Stayton, Oregon, Mr. Sault installed the machinery and started the plant there, remaining with that concern about two years. In the spring of 1909 he went to the Pendleton Woolen Mills, when they were first started at Pendleton, Oregon, and was placed in charge of several departments. He remained there until August, 1912, when he was transferred to the Washougal Woolen Mills, which are owned by the same interests, though operated as a separate organization, and here he remained as superintendent until May, 1927, but now divides his time between the Pendleton and Washougal mills. The same interests also have a woolen mill at Eureka, California. The Washougal mill was originally established in 1910 as the Union Woolen Mills by B. F. Churchill and Dr. Bailey, at which time its chief products were blankets and robes. The original plant comprised one building, one hundred and twenty by sixty feet in size, three stories high; a one-story building forty by sixty feet in size and a small power plant. That company failed in the spring of 1912, and in the fall of that year the plant was leased by the owners of the Pendleton Woolen Mills, who in 1915 took over the plant and in-corporated the mills under the laws of Oregon, later reincorporating under the laws of Washington. Many important improvements have been made in the plant, which now comprises the main building which is three stories high and four other one-story buildings, two hundred by sixty feet, a large power plant, a machine shop and an office building. The mill employs about two hundred and fifty people and manufactures blankets, robes, flannels, suitings, filter fabrics, socks and batts, for which it requires two million pounds of wool a year. The products are principally sold direct and through jobbers all over the country, while considerable stuff is exported, the sales being handled through the main office in Portland. Mr. Sault was married in Ontario, Canada, to Miss Ada Kitchen, and they are the parents of two children. W. E., who was born in Ontario, is now assistant superintendent of the plant at Washougal. Alice Marian, born at Dallas, Oregon, is the widow of E. J. White, who died in 1927, and she has a daughter, Annabel. The son is a member of the Masonic order and the daughter is a past worthy matron of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. Sault has shown a good citizen's interest in the affairs of his community and served as mayor of Washougal from 1925 to 1927, giving an able and businesslike administration. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has passed through the chairs; the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite and the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the Kiwanis Club. He is a man of cordial and friendly manner, lends his influence to the promotion of the best interests of the community in which he lives and has shown himself well worthy of public respect and esteem. Additional Comments: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Pages 330-333 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/sault835gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 4.9 Kb