Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Wendel, Harold F. August 29, 1892 - 
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     HAROLD F. WENDEL, president and manager of the Lipman-Wolf Company, of 
Portland, has well merited the recognition which he has gained as an 
energetic, progressive and capable business man, and under his management this 
great department store is adding to the prestige which it has long enjoyed as 
one of the leading stores in its line on the north Pacific coast. Mr. Wendel 
was born at Piqua, Miami county, Ohio, on the 29th of August, 1892, and is a 
son of Jacob and Flora (Fox) Wendel, the former having long engaged in the 
jewelry business, but is now retired.

     Having received his educational training in the public school and 
graduated from the University of Michigan in 1914, Harold F. Wendel entered 
the employ of Sears, Roebuck & Company in Chicago, with which concern he 
remained until 1917, when he resigned and entered the military service of his 
country, enlisting in the ordnance department of the army. He went into 
training at Rock Island, Illinois; later being transferred to Camp Lewis, 
Washington, where he remained until the close of the war, when he was 
honorably discharged. He then became connected with the Lipman-Wolf Company as 
assistant merchandise manager, and by his loyal and efficient service gained 
successive promotions, first to credit manager, then comptroller, and on 
January 1, 1927, was made president and manager of the company. In this 
position he has exhibited business qualities of the highest order, conducting 
this well known establishment in a manner that has been the subject of 
favorable comment.

     Mr. Wendel was united in marriage to Miss Elise Fleischner, of Portland, 
a daughter of I. N. Fleischner, a pioneer merchant and successful business man 
of this city, now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Wendel are the parents of two 
children, James and Thomas. Mr. Wendle is a member of Willamette Lodge, No. 2, 
A. F. & A.  M.; Portland Consistory, A. A. S. R.; Al Kader Temple, A. A. O. N. 
M. S.; the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith; the Tualatin Golf Club; the 
Rosarians; the Progressive Business Men's Club and the Chamber of Commerce, 
and is also chairman of the Retail Merchants Bureau. Of frank and 
straightforward manner, his career has been marked by strict fidelity in all 
of its relations, while as a citizen he has stood shoulder to shoulder with 
his fellowmen in all movements for the promotion of the city's best interests. 
Personally he is cordial and friendly and has won a high place in the esteem 
of all who have come in contact with him.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Page 
764

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