Carey, Charles Henry.  "History of Oregon." Vol. 3. Chicago-Portland: Pioneer
Historical Pub. Co., 1922.  p. 138-9.

MARK ARLEY CAMERON

Mark Arley Cameron, engaged in the sale of automobile accessories under the name
of the Cameron Motor Company in Hood River, was born in Illinois, April 10,
1876, and is now numbered among the progressive business men of his adopted
city. His parents, John L. and Sarah J. (Snow) Cameron, were representatives of
pioneer families from Illinois. In 1886, when their son Mark was but ten years
of age, they started for the Pacific coast and the father first took up farming
near Roseburg, Oregon, but after a brief period death ended his labors and the
mother later returned with her little family to Hood River.

Mark A. Cameron attended school in Illinois and continued his education as a
pupil in the public schools of Roseburg and of Hood River, Oregon. He began
earning his living as an employee in a sawmill when quite young and after a
service of more than a decade, in which he thoroughly familiarized himself with
every principle and detail of the business, he established a sawmill of his own
and later opened a box factory at Odell, in the conduct of which he was
afterward associated with George Sheppard. In 1916 he abandoned the sawmill and
box factory to establish a large garage in Hood River, erecting the building in
company with two partners. They operated the garage until 1920, at which time
Mr. Cameron sold his business and purchased an accessories store. This he has
since conducted with success under the name of the Cameron Motor Company. His
business is located at First and Oak streets and he carries a complete stock of
automobile accessories and tires and also acts as agent for the Studebaker cars,
the Maxwell and the White trucks. His business has assumed substantial
proportions and ranks him with the prominent representatives of automobile
interests in this section.

Mr. Cameron was married in 1900 to Miss Belle Day of Cascade Locks, Oregon, and
they have one child, Vergil Leroy, a junior in the University of Oregon.

In 1918 Mr. Cameron was elected to the city council of Hood River to serve for a
four years' term and is now chairman of the committee on streets and a member of
the committee on police and finance. He is progressive in every sense of the
term and takes up his public duties with the same thoroughness and zeal which he
has displayed in the conduct of his private business affairs. He was foremost in
his advocacy of the issuance of bonds to build the new city hail, is a supporter
of the new automobile park and of every measure tending to the advancement and
improvement of Hood River. He was one of the leaders in the purchase of the
thousand gallons a minute compound chemical and water pumps for the fire
department and was equally active in support of the new city lighting by the
Holaphane light system, a valuable city improvement. He is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has filled all of the chairs in
the local lodge, and is likewise connected with the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks. He exercises much influence in political, business and social circles
and is most widely and favorably known.



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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2006 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.