Angie Owen Trueblood papers

Collection

Identifier: Coll807

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence, photograph albums, and a yearbook from Angie Owen Trueblood's teenage years and early adulthood. The bulk of the collection consists of letters that Trueblood wrote to her childhood friend Margaret Gallagher of Saginaw, Michigan, while Trueblood was living in Oswego, Oregon, and attending Portland Academy. Other materials in the collection are letters that Marjorie Cameron sent to Trueblood while Cameron was working as an army nurse; the 1912 Portland Academy yearbook, "The Troubador;" and two photograph albums depicting Trueblood, Gallagher, Cameron, and others.

Dates

1907-1919

Creator

Trueblood, Angie Owen, 1894-1994 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

The Oregon Historical Society owns the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners.

Biographical Note

Angie Ripley Owen Trueblood was born Angie Goldsmith Owen in 1894 to Samuel and Angie Ripley Owen in Saginaw, Michigan. Following her mother's death when she was 13 years old, Trueblood changed her name to her mother's, Angie Ripley Owen. In 1907, she moved to Oswego, Oregon (later Lake Oswego, Oregon) with her father and his second wife. There, she studied at Portland Academy. During this time she corresponded extensively with her childhood friend Margaret Gallagher.

Angie Ripley Owen married Harrison Woody Trueblood in April 1917. The couple had one son, Samuel. Trueblood and her husband both served in the U.S. military. She lived in Lake Oswego for most of her life. She died in a nursing home in Los Angeles, California, in January 1994.

Biographical Note

Margaret Mather Gallagher (later Ealy) was born in 1893 in Saginaw, Michigan. She was childhood friends with Angie Owen Trueblood and corresponded with her after Trueblood moved to Oregon. Ealy saved the letters that Trubelood wrote to her and returned them to Trueblood years later. She married Milton Davies Ealy in 1913, and died in 1977.

Biographical Note

Marjorie Cameron attended Portland Academy with Angie Owen Trueblood, and worked as an army nurse at the close of World War I.

Extent

1.08 Cubic Feet (2 legal document cases; 1 slim letter document case)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Papers and photograph albums relating to Angie Owen Trueblood (1894-1994), primarily letters she sent to her friend Margaret Gallagher. Trueblood was born in Saginaw, Michigan; she came to Oswego, Oregon (later Lake Oswego), as a child and attended Portland Academy.

Other Finding Aids

The collection includes a brief biographical sketch of Trueblood and identifications of individuals mentioned in Trueblood's letters to Gallagher. The sketch and identifications are located at the front of Box 1.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gifts of Samuel Trueblood made in 2005 and 2007 (Lib. Accs. 25746 and 26276).

Related Materials

The transcript of an oral history with Angie Owen Trueblood and Elsie Sadelek is included in Mss 2362, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.

General

Collection was cataloged as Angie Trueblood photograph albums (Accession 26276) and Angie Ripley Owen Trueblood correspondence (Accession 25746) prior to October 2019.