Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Statter, Brockwell 1878 - 
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     BROCKWELL STATTER is one of the influential business men of Portland and 
has long been prominently identified with the cement industry. A native of 
England, he was born in 1878 and when a child came to the United States with 
his parents, Thomas and Mary Statter, who settled in Multnomah county, Oregon, 
in 1888. His father was connected with the steamship business for many years 
and is now living retired.

     At the age of ten years Brockwell Statter began his studies in Oregon and 
received a public school education.  For ten years he was employed by the firm 
of Balfour Guthrie & Company, later turning his attention to the steamship 
business, and was next connected with a firm of importers and exporters.  
Meanwhile he worked his way steadily upward, qualifying for positions of 
executive control, and in 1910 became manager for the Pacific Portland Cement 
Company.  For eighteen years he has filled this important office and has 
charge of all the business north of California.  Mr. Statter has a highly 
specialized knowledge of the cement industry and this, combined with his 
administrative power and mature judgment, has enabled him to develop a large 
business for the corporation which he represents.  The Pacific Portland Cement 
Company was organized May 10, 1901, in California, and the Portland office was 
opened about the year 1907.  The plants are located in California and have a 
daily capacity of fifty thousand sacks of cement and sixteen thousand sacks of 
plaster.  This is one of the largest cement companies operating on the Pacific 
coast and the bulk of the business in Oregon is with general contractors and 
dealers.  The corporation maintains a high standard of production and there is 
a wide demand for the output of its plants.

     In 1906 Mr. Statter married Miss Lillian de France, a native of Portland 
and a granddaughter of A. G. Cunningham, one of the city’s early settlers.  
The children of this union are Dorothy, Marion and Brockwell.  Mr. Statter is 
a member of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, the Meadow Lake Country Club, 
the Waverly Club and the Arlington Club.  Through his affiliation with the 
Chamber of Commerce he is endeavoring to promote Portland’s growth and 
prosperity and in politics he maintains an independent course, voting for the 
candidate whom he considers best qualified for office.  Mr. Statter is broad 
in his views, progressive in his standards and high in his ideals—-a man whom 
to know is to esteem and respect. 


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 605-606

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