Carey, Charles Henry.  "History of Oregon." Vol. 2. Chicago-Portland: Pioneer
Historical Pub. Co., 1922.  p. 120.

IRA WALLACE CARL

	Ira Wallace Carl, who enjoys a well earned reputation as a careful and
conscientious lawyer, ever true to the interests of his clients, has since 1911
practiced at the Portland bar. He was born upon a farm in Coos county, Oregon,
in 1886, and is a son of August and Amanda E. (Newcomer) Carl. The father was
born in Germany in 1835, came to America at the age of twenty-three and during
the Civil war enlisted in the Union army as a member of Company P, Ninth
Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry, serving until honorably discharged on
account of illness. He was married in Iowa, to Amanda E. Newcomer, a native of
Illinois, and in 1881 they removed to Oregon, settling in Coos county, where for
many years the family home was maintained. The father passed away in 1903 and is
survived by his widow, who is now living in Portland.
	Ira W. Carl was reared on the home farm to the age of seventeen years and
during that period attended the country schools. He afterwards became a student
in the Oregon Agricultural College and was graduated in 1911 from the law
department of the University of Oregon, for he had determined to engage in the
practice of law as a life work. The same year he was admitted to the bar and
opened an office in Portland, where he has remained. He is still working his way
upward and advancing steadily towards the top. Care and close attention to the
case in hand has been one of his salient characteristics and he is regarded as a
sate counselor and also able in the trial of the case before the court. He is a
clear, concise, and forceful speaker and his utterances carry conviction to the
minds of his hearers.
	On the 10th of August, 1918, in Portland, Mr. Carl was married to Miss
Beulah Frances Miller, a daughter of Claude R. Miller, a native of Iowa who was
married in Michigan to Miss Catherine Elnora Price, also born in Iowa. Mr. and
Mrs. Carl are well known socially, having many friends in Portland and this
section of the state. During the war period Mr. Carl became a permanent member
of the legal advisory board. He also signed up and passed for the navy but the
armistice was signed before he entered active service. His political endorsement
has always been given to the republican party but without the desire of office
as a reward for party fealty. He is well known in fraternal circles and is an
exemplary representative of the Masonic order, in which he has obtained the
thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite while with the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He is likewise connected with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the Knights of Pythias. He has a
membership in the Portland Press Club, Progressive Business Men's Club and in
the Portland Chamber of Commerce. He is keenly interested in all those forces
that make for the development of the city and for civic righteousness and keeps
thoroughly informed concerning the vital questions and issues of the day. He has
always been a great reader and an apt scholar and his clear thinking enables him
to arrive at the right conclusion on almost any subject which engages his
attention. He is most generous of his means, where assistance is needed. His
hours of recreation are devoted to hiking and mountain climbing, and he is a
lover of the great out-of doors.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.