Lockley, Fred.  "History of the Columbia River Valley, From The Dalles to the
Sea." Vol. 2.  S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1928.  p. 736.
 
CLYDE CHARLES BASHOR

     Important business and financial interests claim the attention and profit
by the broad experience and keen sagacity of Clyde Charles Bashor, a
representative citizen of Kelso and one of its self-made men. He was born
January 29, 1885, in Council Grove, Kansas, and is a son of L. B. and Luease E.
(Osborn) Bashor. In the paternal line he represents a German family that was
established in this country during the period between 1820 and 1830, and his
forbears were among the early settlers of Virginia and Tennessee. L. B. Bashor
was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee, July 5, 1851, and engaged in farming for many
years, winning a competence which now enables him to live retired in Kelso. His
wife, who was of English and Irish extraction, passed away at Kelso, December 1,
1924.
     Clyde C. Bashor attended the common schools of Kansas and also took a
course in a business college. In 1903, when a young man of eighteen, he
journeyed alone to Kelso and four years later was joined by his parents. For a
considerable period he worked in a logging camp, performing various tasks, and
in 1910 entered the First National Bank in the capacity of a bookkeeper. At that
time Kelso had a population of two thousand and the bank Was one-tenth of its
present size. He has progressed with the institution, of which he is now cashier
and a director, and through conscientious, efficient work has contributed
materially toward its development. The bank has been a vital force in the
upbuilding of this district and is one of the strong and reliable moneyed
institutions of Cowlitz county. Mr. Bashor's enterprising spirit led him into
the amusement field and he now controls theaters in Kelso and Kalama,
Washington. He was the organizer of the Bashor Motor Company and is president of
the Kelso Investment Company. Methodical and systematic, he has been able to
scatter his energies without lessening their force and has prospered in all of
his ventures.
     Mr. Bashor was married January 1, 1911, in Portland to Miss Nellie A.
Early, who died March 1, 1925, leaving two children, L. Donald and Burnell A.
His second union was with Mrs. Wena B. Hansickie, to whom he was married January
18, 1928, in Seattle, Washington, and who had previously resided in Portland,
Oregon.
     In politics Mr. Bashor is a strong republican and for twelve years was city
treasurer, discharging his duties with customary thoroughness and fidelity.
Along social lines he is connected with the Cowlitz County Country Club and the
Kelso Club. In the steps of an orderly progression he has reached a field of
broad influence and usefulness, and his record proves that the old-fashioned
virtues of industry, honesty and perseverance still constitute the key to
prosperity. Mr. Bashor has a wide acquaintance in, this locality, in which he
has lived for a quarter of a century, and time has strengthened his position in
public esteem.

 
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