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Angie Owen Trueblood papers, 1907-1919
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Trueblood, Angie Owen, 1894-1994
- Title
- Angie Owen Trueblood papers
- Dates
- 1907-1919 (inclusive)19071919
- Quantity
- 1.08 cubic feet, (2 legal document cases; 1 slim letter document case)
- Collection Number
- Coll 807
- Summary
- 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.
- Repository
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Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Additional Reference Guides
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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.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
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 NoteReturn to Top
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 NoteReturn to Top
Marjorie Cameron attended Portland Academy with Angie Owen Trueblood, and worked as an army nurse at the close of World War I.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
Collection was cataloged as Angie Trueblood photograph albums (Accession 26276) and Angie Ripley Owen Trueblood correspondence (Accession 25746) prior to October 2019.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
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.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Angie Owen Trueblood papers, Coll 807, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Restrictions on 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.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | Folder | ||
1 | 1-10 | Letters to Margaret Gallagher | 1907-1912 January |
2 | 1-5 | Letters to Margaret Gallagher | 1912 February-1913 June |
2 | 6-7 | Letters to Margaret Gallagher Ealy | 1913 August-1914 June; circa 1917 |
2 | 8 | Letters to Margaret Gallagher | undated |
2 | 9 | Letters from Marjorie Cameron to Angie Owen Trueblood | 1919 |
2 | 10 | Portland Academy yearbook, "The Troubador" | 1912 |
3 | Photograph albums | circa 1907-1919 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Young women--United States--Conduct of life
- Young women--United States--Correspondence
Personal Names
- Cameron, Marjorie
- Gallagher, Margaret M. (Margaret Mather), 1893-1977
- Trueblood, Angie Owen, 1894-1994
Corporate Names
- Portland Academy (Portland, Or.)
Form or Genre Terms
- correspondence
- photograph albums