Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Weatherly, George W. 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 670  - 673
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     GEORGE W. WEATHERLY, chairman of the board of directors of the Western 
Dairy Products Company, is a pioneer in this line of business, in which he has 
won notable success, and he also figures prominently in financial circles of 
Portland, where much of his life has been spent. He was born in Pleasant 
valley, near this city, a son of W. C. and Aurelia (Johnston) Weatherly, who 
have passed away. In 1864 they made the journey from Arkansas to Oregon in a 
covered wagon drawn by oxen and settled in Multnomah county when this part of 
Oregon was practically a wilderness, enduring all of the hardships and 
privations of frontier existence.

     George W. Weatherly was reared on his father's farm and acquired his 
education in Portland. In the early days he worked for a building contractor 
of Portland and later engaged in contracting and building on his own account. 
In 1892 he purchased a small confectionery store, which stood at the corner of 
Grand avenue and East Morrison street, on the site now occupied by the 
Weatherly building. As a side line he sold ice cream, which he made with a 
hand freezer, and continued as a retail dealer until about 1900 but also did a 
little wholesale business. In 1900 he sold the retail store and concentrated 
his attention upon the wholesale trade. In 1901 a building was erected for his 
use at the corner of East Morrison and Third streets and in 1907 he erected 
the north half of the present factory building. The entire building, which is 
of concrete construction, was completed in 1919, constituting one of the chief 
architectural adornments of this part of the city. The business was conducted 
under the style of the Weatherly Creamery Company, which manufactured ice 
cream and butter from 1895 to 1907, when the firm was merged with the Crystal 
Ice & Storage Company, and the industry was continued under the latter name, 
but the Weatherly brand of ice cream was retained. In 1925 there was another 
change in ownership, when the Western Dairy Products Company, with 
headquarters in Seattle, took over the business, and Mr. Weatherly has since 
been chairman of the board of directors. His post is one of large 
responsibility and his qualifications therefore are exceptional, owing to his 
ripe experience, rare judgment and highly specialized knowledge of the 
industry. In 1925 the Crystal Ice & Storage Company had about two hundred 
employes and its chief product was high grade ice cream. At that time the 
business occupied the entire block between Main and Salmon and East Sixth and 
Seventh streets, affording ninety-five thousand square feet of floor space, 
and the normal capacity of the plant was fifteen thousand gallons of ice cream 
per day. About one hundred motor trucks were in operation and the business 
covered practically all of Oregon.

     It was while F. A. Bruckman was in the employ of Mr. Weatherly that he 
invented the ice-cream-cone making machine. It was jointly patented by Mr. 
Bruckman and Mr. Weatherly and was the first machine ever used in the 
commercial manufacture of cones and was first used in the Weatherly creamery. 
They have since disposed of their patent rights but this machine is still used 
more extensively than any other. In all that he has undertaken Mr. Weatherly 
has won success through his intelligently directed efforts.

     The Weatherly building, completed in 1928, is twelve stories in height 
and the finest business block in East Portland. An astute financier, Mr. 
Weatherly has for the last three years been connected with the Citizens Bank, 
of which he is vice president and a director, and also serves on the 
directorates of the Oregon State Bank and the West Coast Bancorporation.

     In 1895 Mr. Weatherly married Miss Minnie Hawes, a native of Canada, and 
they have become the parents of three children, all natives of Portland. 
Jessie, the eldest, is the wife of J. P. Breckel, of Vancouver, Washington, 
and the mother of a son, Warren. Clayton, who is engaged in the insurance 
business in Portland, is married and has a daughter, Susan. Isabelle, the 
youngest child, is at home.

     Mr. Weatherly is vice president of the East Side Commercial Club and also 
belongs to the Portland Golf Club, the Laurelhurst Club and the Chamber of 
Commerce. Along fraternal lines he is connected with the Knights of Pythias, 
the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Modern Woodmen of America and the 
Woodmen of the World. His life has been earnest and purposeful, fraught with 
the accomplishment of much good, and his fellow citizens speak of him in terms 
of admiration and respect.

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