Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Ayers, Jr., Thomas W. December 14, 1866 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

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THOMAS W. AYERS, Jr.
	Among the younger business men of the county it is fitting to 
incorporate here a review of the interesting career of the gentleman whose 
name initiates this paragraph, since he is one of the leading men in the 
commercial realm of the county, and has shown marked enterprise and rare 
talent in building up and carrying on the largest drug business in this 
section of the state, going at the present time an equal partner in the 
Tallman & Company Drug Incorporation in the city of Pendleton, where they do a 
thriving and ever-increasing business. 	
	Mr. Ayers is a native son of the county, being born on Big Butter 
creek, thirty-three miles southwest from Pendleton, near the county line, on 
December 14, 1866, his parents being Thomas W. and Mary E. (Bruce) Ayers. His 
mother died when he was eleven years old, and later his father married again 
and settled in Heppner, being one of the most prominent and leading citizens 
of Morrow county.  Our subject was taken to Heppner when but a youth by his 
father, and there he grew to manhood, receiving a good education in the city 
schools, which he finished at the business college in Portland, from which 
institution he took his degree in 1885.  After the completion of his education 
he accepted a position with the concern of Ayers & Fell, taking charge of 
their warehouse in the city of Heppner, continuing to discharge the duties of 
that position until 1889, when he embarked in the drug business in that city. 
He prosecuted this business successfully until 1895, at which time he came to 
Pendleton and purchased a half interest in the establishment above described, 
and where he continues to-day.
	Our subject celebrated his marriage with Miss May, daughter of E. L. 
Matlock, one of the old pioneers of Morrow county, on October 3, 1892. Mr. 
Ayers is a man that takes a great interest in the welfare of his city and 
county, being of broad public spirit and laboring for their advancement and 
upbuilding. He is fraternally affiliated with the Masonic order in Pendleton. 
His genial nature has won for him a host of friends and greatly increased his 
business, which is very successfully handled.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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