Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Giger, A. C. August 4, 1865 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 513, 514

A. C. Giger
	The well-known and leading business man of whom we now have the 
pleasure of writing occupies a prominent position in the county, and although 
not one of the earliest settlers, has nevertheless won a host of friends and 
the respect and esteem of all with whom he has had to do.
	A. C. Giger was born in Sangamon county, Illinois, on August 4, 1865, 
being the son of B. H. and Sarah A. Giger, who were of German extraction. They 
moved to Kansas in 1878 and engaged in farming, where our subject grew to 
manhood and received a good education in the public schools, graduating from 
the high school in Cawker City, After this he taught school for two years and 
then entered into the employ of the First National Bank of that place. Three 
years he served there and was then called to fill the position of cashier of 
the State Bank in Glasco, Kansas, where he continued for eight years. In 1895 
he came to Oregon, spending the first winter in Salem. The following year he 
opened a department store in The Dalles and did business there for four years, 
then sold out and bought George Whiteis' stock of goods in Heppner. He is now 
carrying a full line of merchandise, except groceries, his place of business 
being in the Heppner Bank building on Main street. He here operates the 
largest department store off the main line of the railroad in Oregon.
	Mr. Giger was married in Kansas on December 24, 1890, to Miss Lillie 
B., daughter of Henry H. and Mary M. (Copeland) Spalding. To them have been 
born two children, Roscoe E. and A. Charlotte. Mrs. Giger is a niece of the 
Rev. William Spalding, who came to Oregon with Marcus Whitman. Mr. Giger is 
active in fraternal affiliations, being a member of the Masonic order and 
having passed all of the degrees up to the Mystic Shrine. He has also held the 
position of worshipful master in the blue lodge. He is a member of the K. of 
P. in Kansas as well as of the Eastern Star and Rathbone Sisters and has 
attended the grand lodges a number of times. His strict adherence to upright 
business principles and uncompromising integrity have won for him a large and 
increasing patronage, which is fully merited.
	

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.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the 
individual featured in the biographies. 


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