Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Simonds, Clark D. 
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     CLARK D. SIMONDS.  Bending his energies to administrative direction and 
executive control, Clark D. Simonds has developed one of Oregon's important 
productive industries and exerts a strong and beneficial influence in business 
circles of Portland, which for eighteen years has numbered him among its 
leading citizens. He is a native of Manchester, Vermont, and a son of David K. 
and Ellen L. (Clark) Simonds. His father was the owner and publisher of a 
newspaper and a business man of high standing. He has passed away but the 
mother still resides in the Green Mountain state.

     Clark D. Simonds attended Middlebury College in Vermont and continued his 
studies in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was 
graduated in 1904, specializing in business administration. Afterward he was 
identified with various lines of activity and in 1910 came to Portland, 
entering the real estate and mortgage-loan business. He as thus engaged until 
1920, when he organized the Ashland Natural Carbonic Company, of which he has 
since been president and manager. Mr. Simonds leased the Pompadour Mineral 
Springs and secured the exclusive right to manufacture carbonic gas, which is 
put up in steel cylinders. The plant located at Ashland, Oregon, and there are 
but two other places in this country where carbonic gas is found in its 
natural state in commercial quantities. The output of the plant is distributed 
throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Utah by the Liquid Carbonic 
Corporation of Chicago, Illinois. The industry is operated with notable 
efficiency and the main offices of the company are located on the sixth floor 
of the Failing building in Portland. Mr. Simonds closely supervises every 
detail of the business, which is thoroughly systematized and rapidly expanding.

     In 1909 Mr. Simonds married Miss Louise Scully, of Lincoln, Illinois, and 
they now have two children, Marian and John. Mr. Simonds is a member of the 
Waverley Country Club and Chi Psi, a college fraternity. He casts his ballot 
for the candidates of the republican party and heartily indorses every 
movement for the benefit of the city and state with which he has allied his 
interests.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 719-720

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