Clark, Robert Carlton, Ph.D. "History of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Vol. 3.
Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1927. p. 149.

WAYNE ROBERTSON

     Wayne Robertson, a product of the Pacific northwest, has steadily advanced
through the medium of his own efforts and ably discharges the duties of manager
of the Junction City Cannery. He was born in 1886 near Oakesdale, in the Palouse
district of Washington, and his parents, Rufus and Lou E. (Bond) Robertson, were
born in Lane county, Oregon. The paternal grandparents, I. W. and Hettie
(McClure) Bond, came to Oregon in 1853, choosing the overland route. They
settled on a donation claim northwest of Irving and obtained their supplies in
Portland. Mr. Bond was a native of West Virginia and his wife was born in
Indiana. William Robertson, the father of Rufus Robertson, made the journey to
the Pacific coast in the '50s and was married in Oregon to Mary Zumwalt. Rufus
Robertson took up a homestead in the Palouse district and in 1888 settled in
Lane county, Oregon. He opened the first general store at Lorane and spent five
years in that place. He afterward operated a ranch west of Irving and is now
living retired in Springfield, Oregon.
     Wayne Robertson attended the Clearlake school and then moved to the Suislau
country, where the family lived for about eight years. There he continued his
studies and afterward attended the Santa Clara high school. This was followed by
a course in a business college at Eugene and for two years thereafter he was a
forest ranger. He was stationed in the Cascade mountains in eastern Oregon and
then purchased land in Santa Clara. He built a home on the place and engaged in
farming from 1909 until 1917. In the latter year Mr. Robertson entered the
United States National Bank in Eugene in the capacity of bookkeeper. He remained
with the institution for five years and rose to the responsible position of
teller. In 1922 he became a payroll clerk in the office of the Eugene Fruit
Growers Association, in which he was employed for about a year, and for a
similar period was engaged in field work for the association. In 1924 he was
sent to Junction City and has since had charge of the local cannery, maintaining
a high standard of efficiency in its operation. The plant was established by the
Eugene Fruit Growers Association at its present location over ten years ago. It
covers twenty thousand square feet and is in operation from the first of June
until the end of December. During the busy season work is furnished to one
hundred and eighty persons but the average number of employes is one hundred and
twenty-five. The equipment includes a dryer with a capacity of ten tons of green
prunes per day and the fruit is packed in Eugene. Large quantities of
loganberries, cherries, raspberries, rhubarb, plums, prunes, beans, beets and
carrots are handled at the plant, which is a model institution and means much to
the agriculturists of this district. The output of the cannery was nineteen
thousand cases in 1924, thirty thousand in 1925, and in 1926 it produced seventy
thousand cases, the equivalent of seventy carloads, valued at two hundred
thousand dollars. The plant draws its supplies from the region bounded by the
Willamette river on the east, the Lone Pine school district on the south, the
town of Mapleton on the west, and that of Harrisburg on the north.
     On November 3, 1912, Mr. Robertson married Miss Aldula Jones, a native of
Kansas and a daughter of the Rev. Frank E. and Lettie (Alley) Jones, the former
a minister of the Christian church. Mr. and Mrs. Robertson have three children :
Margaret A., Ernest Wayne and Howard Lee, all of whom were born in Santa Clara.
Along fraternal lines Mr. Robertson is connected with the Masonic order and the
Pacific Woodmen. He is vice president of the Lane County Horticultural Society
and was formerly identified with the Grange. He is president of the Junction
City Chamber of Commerce and has done road work, also serving on the school
board. He is a "live wire" in the community and combines in his character all of
the qualities of a useful and desirable citizen.

     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in April 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.