Home and Family

Julius Cone Harvey (1862-1932) was a Methodist clergyman and graduate of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. He married Mary E. Heald in 1884 and migrated to western Washington. Collection includes memories of Mary E. Heald Harvey describing her childhood and youth in Iowa and Kansas and her early married life; letters of Clifton Harvey while at sea, 1939; blank verse and acrostic letters of Atwood Harvey, 1932-1934; and a family scrapbook.

Oral history interview with Adam C. Heim and Clara C. Heim conducted by Jim Strassmaier from July 26 to September 13, 1989. The Heims discuss their lives in Portland and in Huntington, Oregon.

Oral history interview with Nell F. Hoak conducted by Linda S. Dodds on May 7, 1980. Hoak discusses her early life on a homestead in Imperial, Nebraska, and describes traveling to Siloam Springs, Arkansas, by covered wagon in the late 19th century.

Collection consists of photocopy manuscript letters from Isabel Holland, Canyonville, Oregon, to her mother, Nebraska City, Kansas, 1856 and 1863; and a photocopy manuscript letter from John St. John, West Point, Iowa, to Lydia Holland, his aunt, 1866, regarding family in Oregon.

Unprocessed collection of publications, ephemera, and other papers relating to the organization Home Economists in Business, Portland, Oregon Group, as well as the Oregon Home Economics Association and the Oregon Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. Includes membership directories, history of the organization, meeting programs, and clippings.

Small collection of black and white photographs taken during Ella Allen Scott and Quincy Scott's 1907 honeymoon trip, made on horseback, from Minnesota to Washington State. Quincy Scott (1882-1965) was a longtime editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian newspaper in Portland. Ella Allen Scott (1882-1971), also an artist, worked in book and magazine illustration, was dean of women at the University of Montana, and later exhibited and sold paintings.

Collection consists of a biographical sketch of Aceneth Hosford and a photocopy family record with genealogical information. Aceneth Hosford (1828-1896), nee Glover, was an emigrant to Oregon, settling in Mt. Tabor. Her husband was Reverend Chauncy O. Hosford. Spellings of her first name vary and include Acenith, Aceneth, Asenath, and Acenath.

Manuscript letters from William Howe of Monmouth, Oregon, to his children and siblings, October 1871-June 1872, regarding the death of his daughter, Kate, news of crops and sheep, elections and smallpox.

The collection consists of photographs of newspaper owner C. S. Jackson (1860-1924) of Pendleton and Portland, Oregon; family members including his wife, Maria C. Jackson (1862-1956), his sons, Francis C. Jackson (1887-1919) and Philip L. Jackson (1893-1953), and his grandson, C. S. Jackson (1914-1947); and images relating to his newspaper enterprises, the East Oregonian and the Oregon Journal.

Collection includes certificates, diaries, correspondence and other papers belonging primarily to Benjamin Jagger, his daughter Minnie Jagger, and his grandson George Day. Benjamin Jagger (1822-1904) married Ann W. Wrigley in 1852. Their children were Louis Jagger, Frank Jagger, Minnie Jagger (later Minnie Vonderahe) and Olive Jagger (later Olive Day). George Day was their grandson.