Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Sengstake, Cord August 8, 1859 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 800 - 801
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     CORD SENGSTAKE has for nearly a quarter of a century been actively 
identified with the real estate interests of Portland, in which he has been 
rewarded with a very gratifying measure of success, and is today numbered 
among the substantial and highly respected citizens of his community. He was 
born in Germany on the 8th of August, 1859, and is a son of Cord and Adelbert 
Sengstake, of whom the former died in Germany and the latter in the United 
States.

     Mr. Sengstake received a good education in the public schools of his 
native country and in 1877, at the age of eighteen years, emigrated to the 
United States. He went direct to San Francisco, where he took passage on 
the "Oriflame" for Portland. Here he attended private schools in order to 
learn the English language, and then entered the employ of the Oregon Railroad 
and Navigation Company, with which corporation he remained for twenty years. 
His next position was that of secretary of the Tacoma Railway, Light and Power 
Company, at Tacoma, Washington, in which capacity he served for eight years, 
and then returned to Portland and entered the office of the county clerk as 
warrant clerk. About 1905 Mr. Sengstake engaged in the real estate business, 
to which he has given his attention continuously since. He has handled a large 
amount of city and country property, besides buying and selling a good many 
pieces of property on his own account. He handled and named the Colonial 
Heights addition, a very successful venture, and has erected a number of good 
buildings in this city, which he still owns.

     In 1889 Mr. Sengstake was united in marriage to Miss Albertina Bernd, of 
Portland, a daughter of Stephen and Marguerite Bernd, who were pioneer 
settlers in this city, where the father was engaged in the contracting 
business for many years. He and his wife are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. 
Sengstake have two children: Lila Margaret, who is the wife of Frederick H. 
Young, of Portland, and the mother of two children, Margaret and Frederick; 
and Cord, Jr., who is associated in the real estate business with his father. 
He married Miss Pauline Titus, who was born in Nebraska, but was a resident of 
Portland at the time of her marriage, and they have a daughter, Virginia. Both 
children graduated from Portland Academy and the University of Oregon. Mr. 
Sengstake is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, belongs to 
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Chamber of Commerce and is a life 
member of the Multnomah Club. His son also belongs to the same Masonic bodies 
and the Multnomah Club. Mr. Sengstake has become well known as one of 
Portland's representative business men, and also as a man who has devoted a 
due portion of his interest and activity to the advancement of the public 
welfare through his support of all worthy public enterprises. He stands for 
progress and improvement and holds broad views on the great issues of the day, 
being an exemplar of the highest type of citizenship. He therefore commands to 
a notable degree the respect of his fellowmen and the confidence of all who 
have had dealings with him.

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