Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Vincent, Dean October 15, 1881 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com January 21, 2011, 1:17 am Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 731 - 732 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company DEAN VINCENT, president of the Portland Savings and Trust Bank, is accounted one of the ablest and most capable financiers of the Columbia River valley and the institution of which he is the head is one of the strongest and most influential banking concerns of Oregon. This institution was organized in April, 1887, as the Portland Trust Company of Oregon, with a capital of sixty thousand dollars, and with banking quarters in the Ainsworth block, 69 Third street. Heading the institution were Allen Noyes, president, and Benjamin I. Cohen, secretary, while additional directors were Henry L. Pittock, W. W. Spalding, Cleveland Rockwell, Charles H. Woodward, A. F. Hildreth, L. G. Clarke, A. S. Nichols, Amedee M. Smith and William M. Gregory. Dr. Nichols is still on the board. In 1890, at which time the bank was located at 169 Third street, Mr. Cohen became president, serving until 1910, when he was succeeded by Mr. Pittock, who held its leadership until his death, during the late war. Emery Olmstead succeeded him as president, serving until 1925, when Dean Vincent became president and has filled the office to the present time. 0. L. Price is chairman of the board, with C. W. De Graff, Nelson G. Pike and Charles F. Milliman as vice presidents, A. L. Fraley, secretary, C. L. Philliber, cashier, Percy C. Scott, trust officer and assistant secretary, and Charles Carver, Jr., and C. A. Wood as assistant secretaries. The directors are O. L. Price, A. D. Charlton, Virgil Crum, A. S. Nichols, F. F. Pittock and Dean Vincent. For a time before the bank fathered the Northwestern National Bank it occupied its own building on the southeast corner of Third and Oak streets and in 1925 moved to its present location in the Spalding building. Some idea of its remarkable growth in recent years may be gained from the statement that in 1925 it had forty-five employees, and now has eighty-six persons on its payroll. The bank does a trust business of over fifty million dollars a year and has a mortgage business of over fifteen million dollars a year, while it savings bank resources are over three million dollars. Dean Vincent was born in Lapeer, Michigan, on the 15th of October, 1881, and is a son of S. N. and Mary Louise (Dean) Vincent, both of whom are deceased. S. N. Vincent had a very unusual business career, having conducted a drug store in Lapeer for seventy-two years continuously, being the oldest druggist in the United States at the time of his death, in December, 1927, at which time he was ninety-three years old. Dean Vincent attended the public schools of his native city and after his graduation from high school went onto the road as a drug salesman, traveling out of Chicago for ten years. In 1904 he came to Portland and in October, 1909, opened a real estate office, in which line of business he was successfully engaged until January 1, 1919, when he became vice president and manager of the Portland Trust and Savings Bank, in which capacity he served until 1925, when he was made president. He has been successful in his affairs and is a director and president of the Coast Securities Corporation, president of the Rose City Mortgage Corporation, president of the Salem Navigation Company and is interested in other important enterprises. On July 20, 1918, Mr. Vincent was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Cowgill, of Portland, and they are the parents of three children, Dean, Jr., Mary Louise and Blaine. Mr. Vincent has always given his support to the republican party and has taken an active interest in local public affairs, having served eight years as a member of the board of appeals of the city building department, while at the present he is chairman of the board of appeals of the zoning department. He is a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 160, A. F. & A. M.; Friendship Chapter, R. A. M.; Oregon Consistory, No. 1, A. A. S. R.; and Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He also has membership in the Arlington Club, the Waverly Country Club, the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce and is a life member of the Multnomah Athletic Club. He also belongs to the Portland Realty Board, of which he was president for two years; is a past vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards; was for two years president of the Portland Association of Building Owners and Managers; and is a past vice president and director of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers. He is a past prime minister of the Royal Rosarians and a past director of the Rose Festival. He took an active and influential part in the promotion of the Sandy boulevard district and in every possible way has lent his efforts and influence for the advancement of the best interests of the community along material, civic or moral lines. A man of strong character, unquestioned integrity and marked business ability, he is regarded as one of Portland's most substantial and dependable citizens and commands the uniform respect of his fellowmen. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/vincent1383gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 5.7 Kb