Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 269
 
JAMES E. PADDOCK

     Though a resident of the Willamette Valley but a few years, James E.
Paddock, who conducts a prosperous mercantile business at Oakridge, Lane county,
has gained a high place in public esteem. He was born at Ballston Spa, Saratoga
county. New York, and when seven years of age lost his father by death, so that
he was practically thrown on his own resources. He went to work for his board,
but later received nine dollars a month. Determined to secure an education, he
worked his way through school and then obtained a position as clerk in a store,
where he remained a few years. He was next employed by the General Electric
Company, at Schenectady, New York, for several years, and then returned to
Ballston Spa, where he built a greenhouse and established a mercantile business.
He made a good start in business there, but met with misfortune, his greenhouse
being destroyed by fire, entailing a total loss, as he had no insurance on it.
However, he refused to be discouraged and immediately rebuilt the greenhouse, in
the operation of which he won a liberal patronage. In 1924 Mr. Paddock sold his
interests in Ballston Spa and came to Oregon. His brother, C. A. Paddock, came
to the Willamette Valley twenty years ago and is engaged in the real estate
business in Oakridge, It was through his urging that Mr. Paddock came west, and
their trip across the continent by automobiles and trailers was in marked
contrast to the conditions under which the first emigrants to Oregon traveled.
Engaging in the hardware business at Oakridge, he at first rented a building but
later erected a good store building, forty by eighty feet, in which he carries a
large stock of hardware, furniture, sporting goods, building supplies and
automobile tires, having gained a large and steadily increasing trade. He has
met with gratifying success and has bought an attractive and modern home in this
place.

     In 1910, in New York, Mr. Paddock was united in marriage to Miss Winifred
Worden, a daughter of C. E. Worden, of an old New York family. Mr. and Mrs.
Paddock have six children, Olive E., Worden B., Etta L., Eleanor, June and James
E., Jr., all attending school at Oakridge. Mr. Paddock has been deeply
interested in fraternal affairs and was a member of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks in
New York. He is now secretary of the Odd Fellows Lodge at Oakridge and is
president of the Lane County Independent Order of Odd Fellows Association, being
also a past noble grand of the order. He is a member of the Oakridge school
board and he and his family are members of the Protestant Episcopal church. Mrs.
Paddock is a member of the Daughters of Rebekah, of which she is a past noble
grand; the Pythian Sisters and the Ladies of the Maccabees, all in New York, Mr.
Paddock is a man of great energy, his efforts being directed by sound business
judgment, and the success which has crowned his labors is well deserved because
of the high principles which have controlled his actions.

     
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