Malcolm H. Clark lecture on the history of Oregon

Collection

Identifier: SR 9592

Staff Only

Malcolm H. Clark, Jr. lecture on the Oregon Country

Scope and Contents

Audio recording of a lecture given by Malcolm H. Clark, Jr., at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, on February 4, 1982, as part of the Oregon Country Conversations Lecture Series. The audio was recorded by Linda S. Dodds. Clark was introduced by Oregon Historical Society Executive Director Tom Vaughan.

In this lecture, Clark discusses his book “Eden Seekers,” and talks about the history of the Oregon Territory, as well as the early years of Oregon's statehood. He closes his lecture by describing a 19th-century legal case regarding the estate of Finice Caruthers.

Dates

1982 February 4

Creator

Clark, Malcolm, 1917- (Speaker, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Biographical note

Malcolm Hamilton Clark, Jr. was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1917. He dropped out of college to pursue a career as a writer. During the 1940s, he published several short stories in pulp magazines under pseudonyms. In 1943, he and Elsie June Kimpton were married; they later had two children. In the 1950s, he and his young family returned to Portland, and he worked in a law office with his brother. He was the author of "Eden Seekers: The Settlement of Oregon, 1818-1862" and editor of "Pharisee Among Philistines: The Diary of Judge Matthew P. Deady." In 1984, he remarried to Barbara Serrell. Clark died in 1989.

Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Clark in an oral history interview, SR 9366, also held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

Extent

0.1 Cubic Feet (1 audiocassette (53 min., 49 sec.))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Audio recording of a lecture given by Malcolm H. Clark, Jr. on February 4, 1982. Clark discusses the history of the Oregon Territory and a 19th-century legal case regarding the estate of Finice Caruthers.

Existence and Location of Copies

Audio available online in OHS Digital Collections.

Related Materials

Papers regarding the Finice Caruthers estate case discussed in Clark's lecture are held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library as Mss 1407. The library also holds Clark's papers, Mss 2013, and an oral history interview with Clark, SR 9366.