Polk-Clackamas County OR Archives Biographies.....Clifford, T. F. 1884 - 
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     T. F. CLIFFORD.  One of the most successful butter-making concerns of 
Clark county is the Farmers Cooperative Creamery at Camas, which under the 
able management of T. F. Clifford is enjoying a steady and substantial growth. 
Mr. Clifford was born in southern Minnesota in 1884, a son of James and Lida 
(Swindorf) Clifford. His father was a native of Ireland, where he was reared 
and educated, and at the age of seventeen years came to the United States. He 
was long engaged in general farming in Minnesota, where his death occurred in 
1922, and he is survived by his widow, who still lives on the home farm.

     T. F. Clifford completed the public school course in his native state and 
attended the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames, where he took the course in 
dairying.  Returning home, he assisted his father for two years, after which 
he learned the art of butter making in a small plant at Guckeen, near his 
home. In 1909 Mr. Clifford came west, locating first in Vancouver, where he 
took over and ran the old Jersey Creamery for about ten years, after which he 
went to San Luis Obispo, California, and for a short time was with the Los 
Angeles Creamery Company. In 1919, because of the accidental death of his 
brother Dennis, he returned to Minnesota, where he remained about nine months, 
and on again coming to Washington was in Vancouver about six months. He was 
then for two years with Bradner & Company, at Independence, Oregon, after 
which he went to Sandy, that state, as manager of the Sandy Creamery Company, 
which position he held for nine months, and in May, 1923, he came to Camas as 
manager of the Farmers Cooperative Creamery. This plant was established about 
fifteen years ago by the farmers of the neighborhood as an outlet for their 
cream and for awhile both butter and ice cream were manufactured. During 
recent years only butter is made and last year's product amounted to two 
hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds, an increase of more than one hundred 
per cent over the production when Mr. Clifford came here, and the business is 
constantly growing. In addition to the cream from the farmers of this 
immediate district, the company now handles cream from Battle Ground and 
Skamania. Mr. Clifford has two assistants in the plant and the books are kept 
by Mrs. Clifford. It is being planned to erect a new plant in the near future 
in order to properly take care of the rapidly increasing business. The butter, 
which is of a superior quality and is handled under the brand of "Bead Island 
Butter," is sold locally and in Portland and is in steady demand. Mr. Clifford 
has charge of the selling end of the business and has shown himself a 
competent and dependable business man.

     Mr. Clifford was married in Vancouver to Miss Beatrice La Rock, who was 
born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and came to Washington with her parents when 
about five years old. They have one child, Caroline, who is now twelve years 
of age and is attending school.

     Mr. Clifford is a strong republican in politics and served as precinct 
committeeman in 1925. Though the creamery business makes a heavy demand on his 
time, he has not neglected his obligations of citizenship and has taken an 
active part in the affairs of his community, contributing of his efforts to 
its advancement in every possible way. Because of his business ability, his 
loyalty to the concern with which he is connected and his sterling qualities 
of character, he enjoys an enviable standing in the estimation of his 
fellowmen and is regarded as a distinct asset to his comŽmunity.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 507-508

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