Otho Leonard Ferris, secretary of the Columbia Trust Company and thus well known in financial circles, also figures prominently in connection with the city's development as a promoter of real-estate operations. He was born in Butler county, Iowa, April 27, 1881. His father, Dr. Algernon Norman Ferris, was a native of Iowa, studied dentistry and has devoted his life to the practice of the profession. He married Sallie Leonard and they are now living in Los Angeles, California. Otho Leonard Ferris pursued his early education in the public schools of Waterloo, Iowa, passing through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school with the class of 1898. He then entered Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa, winning his Bachelor of Philosophy degree upon graduation in 1902. He pursued a law course at the George Washington University of Washington, D. C., and was graduated with the LL. B. degree in 1905. He came to Portland with the trust department of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company and remained in that connection until April. TQO7. in which year he formed a partnership with John A. Lee, under the firm name of Lee & Ferris, for the general practice of law. It was not long afterward that they organized the Columbia Trust Company with F. N. Clark as president, John A. Lee as vice president and O. L. Ferris as secretary and treasurer. The company conducts a general real-estate business and has sub-divided many important additions including Wiberg Heights, Swinton, Union Square, Kenmore, Greenway, Newmarket Row, Columbia Beach, Broadmead, Westmoreland, Eastmoreland, the Brazee street addition, the Hancock street addition, Altamede, Lawndale and Beaumont. The growth, development, improvement and adornment of Portland have been largely augmented by the efforts of the officers of the Columbia Trust Company. Mr. Ferris was united in marriage in Washington, D. C., on the I4th of June, 1905, to Miss Edna Kimball, a daughter of I. G. Kimball, of that city, and they have one son, Earl Leonard, three years of age. They reside at No. 360 East Forty-seventh street, North. In his political views Mr. Ferris is republican. He belongs to the Rose City Park Presbyterian church, of which he is a trustee, and is also connected with the Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial Club and the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and also become a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to the Delta Tau Delta and to the Irvington Tennis Club. These associations indicate much of the nature of his interests and his recreation, and show him to be a man of well rounded character, whose efforts are not confined entirely to the advancement of his own interests, although laudable ambition has prompted him to put forth effective effort for the Columbia Trust Company, but also extend to projects wherein the interest and welfare of the city are involved.