Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Sevier, C. N. 1886 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 478
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     C. N. SEVIER, president of the Sevier Commission Company, is one of the 
most prominent figures in the livestock business in Portland and is meeting 
with a large measure of success. Born in Harrison county, Missouri, in 1886, 
he is a son of J. W. and Margaret R. (Funk) Sevier, who now reside in 
Portland. He secured a good public school education, after which he devoted 
his attention to farming in association with his father until 1909, when he 
came to Portland. Soon afterward he entered the employ of Swift & Company, 
serving as assistant buyer for a few years, but in 1916 he resigned and 
entered business on his own account, organizing the Sevier Commission Company, 
of which he is president. He handles live stock, selling on commission for 
stock growers and shippers, and has built up a large and prosperous business 
as the result of his sound judgment and discrimination. In 1924 Mr. Sevier 
built the two-story brick building at the corner of Twelfth and Hudson streets 
in the city of Longview, Washington, known as the Sevier building, containing 
a garage and living apartments.

     In 1915 Mr. Sevier was united in marriage to Miss Dorothy A. Nash, of 
Portland, and they are the parents of three children, Claudia May, Betty Jean 
and Donald N. Mrs. Sevier's parents, John and Ellen (Hurley) Nash, came to 
Oregon from Bloomington, Illinois, forty-five years ago. Mr. Nash served for a 
while as a policeman in Portland, but soon formed a partnership with his 
brother, and under the name of Nash Brothers, erected many buildings in the 
St. Johns district in Portland. The father died in Portland when fifty-three 
years old and the mother still lives in Portland and is sixty-five years of 
age. Mr. Sevier is a stanch republican in his political views and is a member 
of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Columbia Country Club. He 
also belongs to the Livestock Exchange, of which he has been president for the 
past two years. He is a man of straightforward manner, honorable in all of his 
dealings, and wherever known commands confidence and respect, while in social 
circles he is deservedly popular.

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