Carrol B. Howe was born in Brownsville, Oregon. Carrol Howe graduated from Southern Oregon Normal School in 1930 and moved to Klamath Falls where he worked at Henley High School. There Carrol Howe became a Principal (1936-1949) and the Head Football Coach for eight years. He was the Coach of the 1946 State B Football Championship team. He served as Superintendent of Klamath County schools from 1948 to 1960, and as state representative from Klamath County from 1960 to 1972. Carrol Howe was active in several local organizations, including the Shaw Historical Library, the Lava Beds Natural History Association and the Oregon Archaeological Society. He was a Crater Lake National History Association board member from 1982 to 1987. Carrol Howe took up farming after retirement, maintaining a keen interest in the Klamath County’s archeology and history. He expressed that interest by researching and writing several books, including “Sagebrush to Shakespeare,” “Frontier Stories of the Klamath Country,” and “Ancient Modocs of California and Oregon.” Carrol and his wife Marjorie established a trust fund that makes annual distributions to the Klamath County Museum and to Southern Oregon University.
The collection is composed of 7 folders with manuscripts, photographs, personal papers and correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials.
The collection is open for research.
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This series includes documents related to the time when Howe served as Co-Chairman of the Klamath County Nixon for President Committee. Documents include newspaper clippings, handwritten and typed letters and photographs. Recipients of the letters include United States Senate, Committee on Appropriations; Congress, House of Representatives; Governor of Oregon and others. There are also letters sent to and from Howe in his position of County Superintendent of Schools.
This series includes brochures, letters, and photographs related to the period when Howe worked as a principal of Henley High School in Klamath County. Included are miscellaneous printed materials and correspondence with the State of Oregon Department of Education, Division of General Education. Documents on the Conference of School Superintendents and School Board members are represented.
This series includes Carrol Howe’s biography, membership in various State and National organizations, correspondence about National Parks, and materials related to his book “Ancient Tribes of the Klamath Country.”
Collection consists of folders with notes, notebooks with taped and handwritten transcripts, a 1997 transcript of the interview with Carrol Howe, conducted by Stephen R. Mark in 1992, and a box with 33 cassette tapes with Carrol Howe’s interviews of the prominent figures in the community. Examples of interviewees include: Laurence Shaw, Charles Ogle, Merle West, Cap Collier, and Ida Odell.