Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Sullivan, Frank W. February 12, 1884 - 
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     FRANK W. SULLIVAN, president of the Kelly & Sullivan Construction 
Company, of Portland, has during the past twenty years gained recognition as 
one of the leading general contractors in the northwest, his operations having 
been of a character and magnitude that have given him well deserved prominence 
in business circles. Mr. Sullivan was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 12th 
of February, 1884, and is a son of Thomas and Mary (Costello) Sullivan. His 
father was for many years successfully engaged in the fuel business, but 
eventually retired and in 1903 moved to Seattle, Washington, where he resided 
until his death. Frank W. Sullivan received a good public school education, 
after which he took up the study of civil engineering. In 1906, at the age of 
twenty-two years, he engaged in railroad contracting, which line he has 
followed to the present time, doing a vast amount of work in this part of the 
country. In 1918 he formed a partnership with Colonel George H. Kelly, under 
the name of the Kelly & Sullivan Construction Company, of which he is 
president, and this firm is regarded as one of the most competent and reliable 
concerns in its line on the coast. Among the big jobs handled by Mr. Sullivan 
was the building of a portion of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound 
extension through Montana, Idaho and Washington, and he was one of the 
principal contractors in the building of the Naton cut-off, on which he 
employed over fifteen hundred men. He has done work on practically all the 
western railroads, principally on the Southern Pacific, and is equipped to 
properly handle any sized contract. Mr. Sullivan has given considerable 
attention to highway construction, having built many of the roads in Lane 
county, Oregon, and elsewhere, and in all of his contracts has been found to 
be absolutely dependable and trustworthy, doing thoroughly and well whatever 
he undertakes. In addition to his contracting interests Mr. Sullivan is also 
president of the Western Sand and Gravel Company and vice president of the 
Western Lumber Company.

     Mr. Sullivan is independent in his political views, and is a member of 
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the University Club. Through his 
extensive operations he has had a large part in the development of the 
northwest, in the growth of which he has been greatly interested, and all of 
his business affairs have been conducted in accordance with the highest 
principles, so that he commands the confidence and respect of all who have 
been in any way associated with him. He is a man of great energy, persistence 
and determination and when he once starts on a job he sees it through to 
prompt completion, regardless of difficulties, his well-earned reputation for 
reliability being one of his best assets. Personally he is agreeable and 
kindly, enjoys a wide acquaintance and is well liked by all who know him.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
687



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