Oral history interview with Clara May Patterson

Collection

Identifier: SR44

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This oral history interview with Clara May Patterson was conducted by Mary Cowan and Ruth Kinon on June 11, 1980. The interviewers are not identified in the audio, so their names are inferred from the handwriting on the physical audiocassette.

In this interview, Patterson describes her experience singing in the choir at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905. She then discusses her family background and early life in Camas, Washington, including the medical career of her father, Theophilius C. Humphrey, and the houses her family lived in. She then talks about her later life in Portland, Oregon, including raising a family. She closes the interview by describing the overland journey of the Humphrey family from Iowa to Oregon in 1852.

Dates

Creation: 1980 June 11

Creator

Patterson, Clara May, 1882-1982 (Interviewee, Person)
Kinon, Ruth (Interviewer, Person)
Cowan, Mary (Interviewer, 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, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Biographical note

Clara May Patterson, nee Humphrey, was born in 1882 in Oregon. She grew up in Camas, Washington, where her father was a doctor. In 1907, she and Wynter R. Patterson were married; they later had two children. She died in 1982.

Extent

.1 Cubic Feet (1 audiocassette (1 hr., 1 min, 36 sec.) + transcript (12 pages))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Oral history interview with Clara May Patterson conducted by Ruth Kinon and Mary Cowan on June 11, 1980. Patterson performed with a choir at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon, in 1905.