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Families -- Oregon

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Helen Platt

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9572
Abstract

Oral history interview with Helen Platt conducted by Charles Digregorio on September 20, 1976. Platt discusses her Durham and Platt family background.

Dates: 1976 September 20
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library / Oral history interview with Helen Platt

Ruth Church Robertson reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 2507
Abstract

Reminiscences by Ruth Church Robertson regarding Church family history, family members' lives in Portland and Salem, Oregon, and travel to Europe and Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Dates: circa 1966-1978
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library / Ruth Church Robertson reminiscences

Royal family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 975
Abstract

Papers of the Royal family of Oregon. Brothers Charles Royal (1798-1878) and William Royal (1796-1870) emigrated to Oregon in 1852 and 1853, respectively. William Royal was a Methodist minister who founded the Centenary Methodist Church (later Centenary-Wilbur Methodist Church) in East Portland; his sons Thomas Fletcher Royal (1821-1911) and James Henry Bascom Royal (1830-1910) were also Methodist ministers.

Dates: 1827-1937
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library / Royal family papers

Skinner family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1012
Abstract Papers of the Skinner family of Jordan Valley, Oregon, particularly of William Silas Skinner (1871-1960) and his descendants. William Silas Skinner was the eldest son of Silas Skinner (1834-1886), who came to Oregon in the 1860s and established a toll road in western Idaho and eastern Oregon and a ranch in Jordan Valley. The family continued to operate the ranch into the 21st century. The collection also contains papers of related families; financial, property, and ranching records; and...
Dates: 1840-2013; Majority of material found within 1863-2013
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library / Skinner family papers

Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland

 Collection
Identifier: SR11131
Abstract

Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland conducted by an unidentified woman on March 11, 2000. Sweetland was an Oregon state representative and senator. In this interview, he speaks about his family and their life in the Island Station neighborhood of Milwaukie, Oregon.

Dates: 2000 March 11
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library / Oral history interview with Monroe Sweetland

Sarah Hunsaker Tompkins family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll871
Abstract

Photographs, reminiscences, and genealogical materials relating to Sarah Hunsaker Tompkins (1847-1942) and her family. Tompkins was the daughter of Jacob T. Hunsaker (1818-1889), and married Josephus Tompkins (1838-1928) in 1873.

Dates: circa 1870-2018
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library / Sarah Hunsaker Tompkins family papers

Oral history interview with Ethel L. Vaughters

 Collection
Identifier: SR935
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ethel L. Vaughters conducted by Robert Vaughters in the summer of 1981. Vaughters discusses raising a family in Scio, Roaring River, Hebo, and Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1981
Found in: Oregon Historical Society Research Library / Oral history interview with Ethel L. Vaughters

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