Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis
Pub. Co. 1893.  p. 1041.
 
HENRY EVERDING

     Shipping and commission merchant, Portland, Oregon, was born in the Kingdom
of Hanover, Germany, in 1833.  His ancestors were residents of that place for
many generations, and were engaged in agricultural pursuits.  The subject of our
sketch was educated in his native land, and was reared to habits of thrift and
industry.  After the death of his father, in 1850, his mother and her four
children, Henry being one of the number, emigrated to the United States and
settled near Cincinnati.  He was employed as clerk in a grocery and hardware
store in that city, and also passed some time at Moro, near Cincinnati, where he
learned the principles of manufacturing starch.  Early in 1855 young Everding
struck out in life on his own responsibilities, seeking his fortune in the far
West.  Coming via the Isthmus of Panama, he landed at San Francisco the
following May.  There he started a small factory for the manufacture of starch
from wheat, which he continued for four years, and then sold out.  He next
purchased 300 acres of land near San Pablo and engaged in the stock business,
being thus successfully engaged until 1864, when, through the rapid settlement
of the country, free grazing became limited, he sold out and removed to
Portland.
     After coming to Portland, Mr. Everding formed a copartnership with Edwin
Beebe, under the firm name of Everding and Beebe, opened a store on the corner
of Front and Taylor streets, and engaged in the purchase and sale of grain and
country produce, shipping to the San Francisco market.  This was carried on
quite extensively until the death of Mr. Beebe, in 1880.  Since that date Mr.
Everding has operated the business alone.  With the growth of the city, the
store has been moved farther north, and he now occupies a sale and storage room,
50 x 100 feet, at 45 Front street, where he has been located for thirteen years.
He also handles large quantities of hay and grain through outside warehouses.
He handles feed, flour and staple groceries, and wool and hides on commission.
     He was married in Portland, in 1870 to, Miss Therese Harding, a native of
Germany.  They reside at 301 Eleventh street, Mr. Everding having built his
residence here in 1886.
     He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and also of the F. & A. M., having passed
all the chairs of the blue lodge, Royal Arch and Knight Templar degrees.  In
politics he takes little interest.  By all who know him he is recognized as a
man of the strictest integrity, and during his business career has endeared
himself to a large circle of acquaintances.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.