"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chapman 
Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1248.
 
FRANK JAMES COAD

     That typical and substantial pioneer, Samuel Coad, has richly endowed this
part of the state, not only from the standpoint of his own achievements, but
because he has transmitted to his sons those fundamental characteristics
everywhere regarded as upbuilding and reliable. Integrity is a human attribute
which no one has ever questioned in those bearing the name of Coad, and Frank
James Coad, owner and proprietor of a flourishing sash and door factory and
planing mills at Dallas, possesses to an unusual degree this desirable trait. He
was born on his father's farm on the Peedee branch of the Luckiamute river, May
2, 1859, and was reared principally in Dallas, where his father conducted a drug
store for many years, and where he is now living retired. Like his brother, C.
G., another prominent citizen of Dallas, and the present postmaster, be was
educated in the public schools, and at La Creole Academy, after which he spent
the winter of '78-9 in Prineville, Ore., in the drug business. Returning to
Dallas, he worked at the carpenter's and builder's trade for a year, and
thereafter engaged in the livery business with D. N. Burns, under the firm name
of Burns & Coad, for eighteen months. After disposing of the livery he was
employed for a year in the bridge department of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company, at the time they had a lease on the old narrow gauge road.
     In 1883 Mr. Coad went into partnership with D. J. Riley in purchasing the
old sash and door factory of J. M. Campbell, which at that time was a very small
shop built in the old style in the eastern part of the town, and having a
six-horse water-power. This plant they improved and fitted with modern
machinery, and were so successful in their work that a new plant followed in
1885, located at the end of Mill street, and on an enlarged scale of one hundred
and twenty-five horse-power. The plant has all modern machinery, and is run by
both water and steam power, sash, doors, mouldings, and various builders'
materials being turned out in large quantities. In the meantime the partners
engaged in building and contracting in Dallas and vicinity, until 1895, when
each, department had assumed such large proportions it was deemed advisable to
dissolve partnership, Mr. Riley thereafter devoting himself to contracting, and
Mr. Coad to the management of the milling interests.
     In Dallas, in 1883, Mr. Coad married Jennie Lyons, who was born in
Missouri, and who is the mother of one child, Hallie F. For his little family
Mr. Coad has built one of the finest and most commodious residences in Dallas,
where hospitality is dispensed unstintingly, and the utmost good fellowship
prevails. He has availed himself of other avenues of profit in the vicinity of
the town, and has been especially successful as a raiser of Angora goats on a
small ranch three miles north of Dallas. He has also been interested in prune
culture. As a Republican he has taken an active interest in local affairs, and
served one term as a member of the Dallas city council. Mr. Coad was one of the
organizers of the Dallas volunteer fire department, as a charter member of the
Terror Engine Company, of which he was foreman for several years. He selected
the name " Terror " for the company. Mr. Coad is a member of the Board of Trade
and the Chamber of Commerce, of the Polk County Mohair Association, the Native
Sons of Oregon, and the Muscovites of Portland. Both himself and wife are
identified with the Rebekas, and he is a member and past noble grand of
Friendship Lodge No. 6, I. O. O. F. ; Encampment No. 20, of which he is past
chief patriarch, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2008 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.