1952 President Norris B. Stone

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Norris B. Stone was born in Topeka, Kansas, July 3, 1888, later moving with his parents to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he attended grade school and high school.  In 1904 he went to work for Swift & Co. After three years with them, at the age of nineteen, he was transferred from St. Joseph to their new venture in Portland when they purchased the Union Meat Company and the Sun Dial Ranch at Troutdale and Fairview.  He was made head of their by-products department, stationed at Troutdale, and remained with this firm for a total of eighteen years.

1952 - NORRIS B. STONE

At Troutdale Mr. Stone found social conditions most unfavorable for young people, there being three saloons running wide open, and the two local churches closed.  He was instrumental in having one of the churches reopened and a gymnasium organized, to the great improvement of conditions for the teenagers.

During this period, at the age of twenty-one, Mr. Stone joined the Masonic Lodge, and in 1913 was Master of Kenton Blue Lodge No. 15, A.F. & A.M., of Portland, Oregon.  In 1915 he joined the Shrine and was immediately enrolled in the Shrine Chanters, with whom he sang until 1946, serving during the last two years as manager of the Chanters.

In 1921 Mr. Stone resigned from Swift & Company to go into business for himself, handling principally packing-house by-products, including wool, hides, animal feeds, animal fertilizers, etc., in which business he is now engaged. During his connection with Swift & Company Mr. Stone built up their entire by­products departments from nothing to a very appreciable volume by 1921, when he resigned.

Mr. Stone was married to Miss Bessie Briedwell of Amity, Oregon, on May 16, 1909.  Three sons and three daughters were born to them, the two youngest being twin girls.  Bessie Stone died on June 26, 1926. On January 16, 1928, Mr. Stone was married to Miss Clara Love, a member of an old pioneer family and granddaughter of Captain Lewis Love. 

Mr. Stone joined the Geological Society of the Oregon Country in September 1946.