Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Tate, Douglas R. 1878 - 
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Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     DOUGLAS R. TATE.  One of the able and well known business men of Portland 
is Douglas R. Tate, president of Tate, Westenfelder & Berg, who has been a 
resident of this city for eighteen years, during which period he has risen in 
the esteem of the people of the community and is numbered among its 
enterprising and trustworthy business men. Mr. Tate was born in Baltimore, 
Maryland, in 1878, and is a son of James Edward and Frances (Hargrove) Tate, 
the former a native of Maryland and the latter of South Carolina, and both are 
now deceased. Mr. Tate was a member of the grain exporting firm of Tate, 
Muller & Company, was a director of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty 
Company, and was a man of prominence and influence in the business circles of 
Baltimore.

     Douglas R. Tate secured his preliminary education in the public and high 
schools of his native city and attended Dickinson College, at Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania. On leaving college he entered the employ of the Baltimore & Ohio 
Railroad, but about five months later went to the United States Fidelity and 
Guaranty Company, which in 1906 sent him to Tacoma, Washington, to establish a 
northwestern agency, of which he had charge until September, 1910, when he 
came to Portland and took charge of the business of Hartman & Thompson, who 
represented the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company. He remained 
active manager for that concern until April, 1925, when he and H. Westenfelder 
and Otto Berg formed a partnership and took over the business, which was 
incorporated under the name of Tate, Westenfelder & Berg, on April 23, 1925. 
They are the local representatives of the Baltimore company, as well as of the 
Maryland Insurance Company, the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company, 
the Fireman's Insurance Company, the Hanover Insurance Company, the Queen 
Underwriters, and other well known companies, and they also sell surety bonds 
and casualty insurance. They command a large business throughout this 
territory and by their sound methods and uniform courtesy have become well 
established in public confidence.

     In March, 1911, Mr. Tate was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth 
Colburn, of Maryland, who died in 1923, leaving one child, Douglas R., Jr. Mr. 
Tate is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi college fraternity, and is connected 
with the Insurance Exchange of Portland, His political alignment is with the 
democratic party and he takes a proper interest in public affairs. His success 
is the legitimate result of his loyal and efficient efforts in whatever 
position he has been placed, and in all of which he has proven a man of keen 
judgment and absolute integrity. Genial and unassuming in manner, he has a 
wide acquaintance throughout this city and all who know him hold him in high 
regard.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 586-587

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