James G Orr/title> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">  </script> <center> <style type="text/css"> table.tableizer-table { border: 3px solid #000000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif font-size: 12px; } .tableizer-table td { padding: 4px; margin: 3px; border: 1px solid #000000; } .tableizer-table th { background-color: #660033; color: #FFF; font-weight: bold; } </style><table class="tableizer-table"> <tr class="tableizer-firstrow"><th>James G Orr</th></tr> <tr><td><center>JAMES G ORR, president of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, who is eneged in the wholesale fruit and produce business at Portland, <br> one of the best known and most progressive business men of that city, is a nativee Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life. He <br> was born at Selma, in Delaware county, in this state, August 3, 1880, son of Joseph N and Nannie C (Simmons) Orr, who are still living there. <br> Joseph N Orr was born in Delaware county, a member of one of the pioneer families of that section of the state, and early became engaged in <br> businesss at Selma, proprietor of a general store, which business he still maintains. He and his wife have three children, the subject of <br> this sketch having two sisters, Nellie and bertha. Reared at Selma, James G Orr recieved his early schooling in the excellent schools of the <br> village and suplemented the same by the course in the high school at Muncie and two years of attendence at Indiana university. Reared to a <br> commercial life, he became engaged in business with the W H Moreland Shoe Company at Muncie, where for five years he was proprietor of a shoe <br> store. He then sold that store and returned to Selma, where he became engaged in the grocery business, continuing thus engaged until 1913, <br> when he disposed of his interests there and moved to Portland, where he has since been quite successfully engaged in the wholesale fruit and <br> produce business on West Race street. Ever since he became a resident of Portland Mr Orr has given his thoughtful attention to the general <br> commercial activities of the city and is now president of the Portland Chamber of Commerrce, to the affairs of which active and influential <br> organization he has long been earnestly devoted. he is a Republican, a Knights Templar and Cryptic Mason, a past exalted ruler of the local <br> lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, as a member of the United Commercial Travelers, and he and his wife are members of the <br> Presbyterisn church. Mr Orr is one of the charter members of the Portland council, Royal and Select Masters (Masonic), and is now serving as <br> steward of the council. in 1905, James G Orr was united in marriage to Helen Tomlinson of Henderson, Ky., and to this union one child has been <br> born, a son, James N Orr.</center></td></tr> <tr><td><center><u><b>History of Jay County, Indiana: Including Its World War Record and Incorporating the Montgomery History, Volume 2<br> Milton T. Jay, Historical Publishing Company, Jay County (Ind.), 1922</center></td></tr> </table>