Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Ward, Henry August 19, 1897 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 689 - 690
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     HENRY WARD,  who came to Portland in 1918, when a young man of twenty-
three years, has made for himself a creditable position in connection with 
automobile interests of the city and has also become widely and prominently 
known in sporting and political circles. He holds to high standards in every 
relation and his activities have been intelligently directed toward the public 
good as well as to individual progress.

     Henry Ward was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, August 19, 1897, a son of 
William Henry and Anna Janette Ward. The father was the organizer of the 
Nebraska Buick Company in Lincoln. The son was reared and educated in that 
city, supplementing his public school training by a course in a business 
college. When young he worked in his father's garage and thoroughly acquainted 
himself with every phase of the business. In 1918 he arrived in Portland, 
attracted by the opportunities of the growing west. For eight months he was in 
the employ of others and then opened a Buick service garage at Fourteenth and 
Burnside streets. Subsequently he removed to 111 Thirteenth street, his 
present location, there establishing business in 1922. The building was 
remodeled for him, making a very complete plant, but it has already proven 
inadequate to the demands of the business, so that soon new quarters will have 
to be secured. Here Mr. Ward maintains an exclusive service and repair shop 
for Buick cars and in addition he is selling agent for the Mohawk Pinto 
aeroplane, manufactured in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a licensed aviator, 
greatly interested in flying, and thus he is able to speak intelligently upon 
the merits of the plane which he represents and for which he has the agency in 
both Oregon and Washington. He believes that there is a great future for the 
air service and that its speedy development will largely revolutionize travel 
and commerce. Mr. Ward has made notable progress since he came to the 
northwest. He is interested in many other enterprises aside from those already 
mentioned and is a director in several concerns, including the Snug Harbor 
Land Company at Seaside, Oregon, the Guardian Building & Loan Association and 
the Investors Company of Oregon.

     Mr. Ward was married to Miss Edna Miller, of Whitney, Nebraska. 
Fraternally he is a Mason, with membership in Hawthorne Lodge, and in the York 
and Scottish Rite bodies, being keenly interested in the organization and its 
high purposes. He not only belongs to Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine but 
also to its patrol. He is greatly interested in manly sports and is a director 
of the Multnomah Anglers and Hunters Club, while his membership relations 
extends to the Portland Gun Club and the Multnomah club.  He is the Multnomah 
representative of the State Sportsman’s Association and is a director of the 
State Game Protective Association.  In 1927 he was chosen president of the 
Portland Automotive Trades Association and in this connection familiarized 
himself with the legislative needs of automobile owners in general.

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