Biography

Richard Charles Harmon was born in Jackson, Michigan, in 1952. When he was six years old, his family moved to the West Coast. In 1975, he earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California, San Diego. That same year, he and Candice Gaucher were married; they later divorced in 1985. He attended Columbia University in New York, then transferred back to UCSD. A few years later, he left graduate school and began working in publishing in Southern California. In the early 1980s, he began working in the UCLA oral history program. n 1984, he became an oral historian at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, and the next year, he also became the editor of Oregon Historical Quarterly, the society's journal. For a year, he held both positions, and he served as editor of OHQ until 1999. Harmon was married twice. He and Candice Gaucher married in 1975, then divorced in 1985. He remarried, to Jane Malarkey, in 1990. In 1990, he and Jane Malarkey were married. Harmon died in 2004.

Sources: Information provided by Harmon in an oral history interview, SR 2531 at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library; vital records on Ancestry.com.

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