Oral history interview with Henry S. Mears and Margaret S. Clark
Scope and Contents
This oral history interview with siblings Henry S. Mears and Margaret S. Clark was conducted by Charles Digregorio at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, on August 3, 1976, as part of the oral history program at the society’s research library. A transcript is available.
In this interview, Mears and Clark discuss their family background, and talk about the life and career of their father, Portland businessman and Oregon legislator Samuel Maxwell Mears. Digregorio reads biographies of Samuel M. Mears prepared by the siblings. They talk about their early lives in Portland, including their social lives and recreational activities. They close the interview by talking about their brother, Arthur Maxwell Mears, and his involvement in Portland’s shipbuilding industry.
Dates
- 1976 August 3
Creator
- Clark, Margaret S. (Margaret Savier), 1895-1994 (Interviewee, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the estates of Henry S. Mears and Margaret S. Clark. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
Biographical note
Henry Savier Mears was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1884. In 1920, he and Marion L. Chase were married; they later had one child. He died in 1980.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com.
Biographical note
Margaret Savier Clark, nee Mears, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1895. In 1917, she and Norman Nienstedt Rupp were married; they later had three children. Rupp died in 1942, and she remarried to Wilson Warner Clark in 1949. She died in 1994.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com.
Extent
0.1 Cubic Feet (1 audiocassette (48 min., 30 sec.) + transcript (27 pages))
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Oral history interview with siblings Henry S. Mears and Margaret S. Clark conducted by Charles Digregorio on August 3, 1976. Mears and Clark discuss the life and career of their father, Portland businessman and Oregon legislator Samuel Maxwell Mears.
Existence and Location of Copies
- Businessmen -- Oregon -- Portland
- Clark, Margaret S. (Margaret Savier), 1895-1994 -- Childhood and youth
- Legislators -- Oregon
- Mears, Arthur M. (Arthur Maxwell), 1886-1970
- Mears, Henry S. (Henry Savier), 1884-1980 -- Childhood and youth
- Mears, Samuel M. (Samuel Maxwell), 1856-1934
- Oral Histories
- Portland
- Portland (Or.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- interviews
- oral histories (literary genre)
Creator
- Clark, Margaret S. (Margaret Savier), 1895-1994 (Interviewee, Person)
- Mears, Henry S. (Henry Savier), 1884-1980 (Interviewee, Person)
- Digregorio, Charles (Interviewer, Person)
- Title
- Guide to the oral history interview with Henry S. Mears and Margaret S. Clark
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sarah Stroman
- Date
- 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
- Sponsor
- Digitization funded by the James F. Miller Endowment.
Repository Details
Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository
1200 SW Park Ave.
Portland OR 97205 United States
5033065204
5033065240
libreference@ohs.org