"Portrait and Biographical Record of Portland and Vicinity, Oregon." Authors: "a
compilation of this work....by a number of writers".  Chapman Publishing Co;
Chicago, 1903. p. 377
 
JACOB MUNDORFF

     A recently erected and thoroughly modern rural residence marks a stage in
the successful career of Jacob Mundorff, on of the popular and enterprising
farmers of Clackamas county.  Mr. Mundorff has inherited from Teutonic ancestors
the most reliable traits of his countrymen, traits which have played a
remarkable part in the development of this great state.  He was born in
Hesse-Darmstadt may 24, 1843, and is the second youngest of the six sons and two
daughters born to Peter and Anna Catherine Mundorff, the latter of whom was born
in Germany, and died at the age of eighty-five, and whose father, Peter, was a
farmer, and died at the age of seventy-seven.  Peter Mundorff was born in
Germany in 1800, and in time owned forty-five acres of land, quite a good sized
farm considering the part of Germany in which he lived.  He died in 1877.
     Jacob Mundorff had an uneventful childhood, and while assisting with the
care of the paternal farm attended the public schools.  He early envinced
thrifty and industrious tendencies, and ambition induced him to come to America
in 1867.  He located in Albany, N. Y., and found employment in a coopering
establishment, afterwards working in a brewery in Newark, N. J., for a couple of
years.  In Akron, Ohio, he engaged in the brewing business, and in 1871 was able
to purchase a farm in Clark county, Ill., consisting of eighty acres.  However,
he did not live on the farm at that time, but rather went to Evansville, Ind.,
where he conducted a brewery, and later to Quincy, Ill., where he worked a
cooper during the fall and winter.  During that summer he returned to his farm,
and for five years devoted himself to its cultivation.  Hoping to profit by a
change of location, Mr. Mundorff removed to Lyon county, Kans., near Americus,
and thirteen miles north of Emporia, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres
of land and engaged in general farming.  Four years in Kansas convinced him that
it was not the place he was looking for, and in 1881 he came to Oregon,
purchasing one hundred and twenty acres of land near Canby.  As fine a farm has
developed under the energy of this model farmer as is to be found in any part of
the county, and in addition to general farming he raises considerable fruit, six
acres being under prunes and two acres under apples and pears.  The balance of
the land is devoted to hay and grain.
     In Illinois, in 1872, Mr. Mundorff married Pauline Heller, who was born in
Ohio, and who is the mother of three children:  Annie K., the wife of M. C. Mace
of Portland; Lizzie, the wife of W. E. Camera of La Grande; and John, living
with his parents.  Mr. Mundorff is a Republican in politics, and has been school
clerk and trustee.   With his family he is a member of the Evangelical German
Church.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in April 2006 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.