Digregorio, Charles
Biography
Charles Dominic Chester Digregorio was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1950. In 1972, he earned a bachelor’s degree in French literature from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. In 1974, he briefly worked at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. The next year, he studied oral history at Columbia University in New York City, then returned to Portland and became the first oral historian at the Oregon Historical Society. During that time, he was also an adjunct professor at Portland State University. In 1979, Digregorio became the customer service manager for Pendleton Woolen Mills, and later became the company’s marketing manager. In 1990, he began working for Coldwell Banker Commercial, which later became C.B. Richard Ellis. In 2013, he joined the investment and real estate firm Norris & Stevens, Inc., and later became a vice president for the company.
Digregorio married Hilde Muerth in 1983, and they had two children.
Sources: information provided by Digregorio in his interview and in a 2023 telephone conversation.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Barbara Elliott Davies
Oral history interview with Barbara Elliott Davies conducted by Charles Digregorio on July 18, 1976. Davies discusses the life and work of her father, Thomas Coit Elliott, at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, and of her grandfather, John Euclid Elliott, in the development of Walla Walla, Washington.
Oral history interview with Arthur J. McCourt
Oral history interview with Arthur J. McCourt conducted by Charles Digregorio on March 13, 1979. McCourt was an accountant at Weyerhaeuser Company, and later served as director of the company's archives.
Oral history interview with Gwen V. Miller
Oral history interview with Gwen V. Miller conducted by Charles Digregorio on December 17, 1975. Miller talks about her grandparents' overland journey to Oregon, about life in 19th-century Oregon, and about the relationship between white emigrants and Native people.
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