Collection consists of a manuscript account book containing an account of the distribution of Sophia Holman's estate, 1867-1870, kept by her son, Charles Holman. Volume also includes account records of James A. Malarkey and Fannie E. Malarkey, 1934. Sophia Jarvis Holman (1812-1867) was born in London, England, and emigrated to the United States in 1849. She lived in Brooklyn, New York, until her husband's death in 1865, when the family came to Portland, Oregon.

Oral history interview with sisters Helen L. Thompson and Mary C. Baker conducted by Charles Digregorio on October 27, 1976. Thompson and Baker discuss their family background and early life in the Portland Heights neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.