Latah County Oral History Collection

1: Adair, Ione. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow, Bovill, Fortynine Meadows 1883

Parents came from Oregon and Indiana (1893); family lived in the McConnell mansion (1900-1936).

County assessor, teacher, postal clerk, timber homesteader.

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Box 1	Box 20	(1) with Bernadine Cornelison (sister) 2 hr; 33p Family's Bovill homesteading. Cooking for firefighters (1910). Governor McConnell's family. Purchase of mansion. Family's pet bear. Backwoods humor.	June 8, 1976
Box 1	Box 20	(2) with Bernadine Cornelison 2 hr; 51p Timber homesteading at Fortynine Meadows; loss of claim. Relationship with parents. Victorian manners and dress. Methodist church and revivals. Prohibition. Family cars.	September 3, 1976
Box 1	Box 20	(3) with Bernadine Cornelison 2.4 hr; 62p Family life in the McConnell mansion. Father's medical practice; his friendship with Nez Perces. Mother's poor health and optimism. Family move to Moscow. Reading club. Bovill fishing.	November 16, 1976
Box 1	Box 20	(4) with Bernadine Cornelison 2 hr; 56p Mansion grounds and parties. McConnell family background. College experiences. Singing career.	January 27, 1977
Box 1	Box 20	(5) with Bernadine Cornelison 2.5 hr; 59p Women homesteaders in the timber. Experiences of 1910 fire. Friendship with father. Dr. Watkins family. Carrie Bush and Mary Borah.	February 24, 1977

2: Albright, Lora Brackett. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch River, Juliaetta 1898

Came from Lookout, Idaho (1916), where parents had moved from Minnesota.

Manager of family produce operation, teacher, farm wife, state legislator (1949-1950).

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Box 1	Box 20	(1) 2 hr; 54p Experiences in Midwest logging camps as a girl. Family adversity and development of Idaho ranch. Schooling and teaching. Favorite horse. Homestading rough land near Juliaetta (1918).	April 29, 1976
Box 1	Box 20	(2) 1.5 hr; 40p Significance of teacher to community. Midwiving at childbirths. Decision to marry. Longings of pioneer women. Native and imported plants.	May 25, 1976
Box 1	Box 20	(3) 4 hr; 107p Lay missionary work at Lapwai Methodist Church. Selling school consolidation to communities. Family truck gardening and turkey raising. Work as state legislator. Homestading experiences. Helping tramps. Ethics.	June 23, 1976

3: Anderson, Axel. Interviewer: Sam Schrager and Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill, Elk River 1886

Arrived in 1907, two years after emigrating from Sweden.

Assistant logging superintendent, camp foreman; employed by Potlatch Lumber Co. for 44 years.

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Box 1	Box 20	(1) 2.5 hr; 58p First experiences in America. Beginning work for Potlatch. Preparing Elk River millsite and townsite (1909). Foreman for 350 men. Severe flooding of St. Joe River (1933).	July 23, 1974
Box 1	Box 20	(2) 2 hr; 38p IWW strike of 1917; improvement of camp conditions. Fighting 1910 fire. Relationship to crew. Elk River life. Childhood on a Swedish estate. Weyerhaeusers.	July 25, 1974
Box 1	Box 20	(3) 2 hr; 40p Serving in forestry unit in France in World War I. Drinking and liquor control in camp. Log chutes; donkeys and horses. Depression logging.	July 26, 1974
Box 1	Box 20	(4) 2 hr; 42p Work as walking boss. Hiring and firing men. Relations with workers and management. Woods routine and variety. Laying shay lines.	August 20, 1974
Box 1	Box 20	(5) 2.5 hr; 47p Unsuccessfull IWW strike of 1936. Gyppo logging. Accidents. Camp life; cooks and flunkeys. Wood animals. Retirement. Inflation.	August 24, 1974

4: Anderson, Ernest. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Burnt Ridge, Troy 1902

Parents emigrated from Sweden and settled in the late nineties. Helen Anderson's husband.

Farmer.

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Box 1		(1) 1.5 hr; no transcript Hard times in Sweden and Duluth. Play and fights as a boy. Getting started as a farmer. Canyon logging; horse team hauling. Joe Wells. Father's craftsmanship.	June 5, 1974
Box 1		(2) 1.5 hr; no transcript Depression trials. Rural scholls: strictness, teachers, decline. Harvest work as roustabout. Early sawmilling. Chores.	June 14, 1974

5: Anderson, Helen Kellberg. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Burnt Ridge, Troy 1904

Parents were Swedish settlers who came via Missouri (1906).

Farm wife.

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Box 2	Box 20	(1) 1.2 hr; 18p Tuberculosis and other sicknesses. Growing up on the farm. Women's work. Father's strictness.	June 5, 1974
Box 2	Box 20	(2) 1.2 hr; 20p Good and bad teachers. Neighborhood happenings. Party gatherings. Economizing in the depression. Naivete of young. Shopping in Troy.	June 14, 1974

6: Asplund, Ida SwanbergReturn to Top

Nora, Troy 1889

Parents came from Sweden (1888).

Homemaker, housekeeper, harvest cook.

Description
(1) see Sundell, Theodore

7: Asplund, Philip. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Dry Ridge, Troy 1894

Parents were from Sweden and Norway (1886).

Logging teamster.

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Box 2	Box 20	(1) 1.7 hr; 47p Working in the woods: pay reduction, blowing-in, World War I. Big Anderson. Youth on family farm. Troy as logging and trading center.	February 13, 1975

8: Bacca, Amelia Odorizzi. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Onaway 1908

Came from northern Italy in 1931.

Homemaker.

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Box 2	Box 20	(1) and James Bacca (husband) 2.6 hr; 60p Adaptation to America. Subsistence living near Trent, Italy; local interest in America. Depression struggle. Coal mining in Wyoming; settling in Potlatch. Other Onaway Italians.	September 24, 1976

9: Bacca, JamesReturn to Top

Onaway, Potlatch 1901

Emigrated from northern Italy in 1920; came to Potlatch in 1927.

Fireman in the mill.

Description
(1) see Bacca, Amelia

10: Baker, Winney Tout. Interviewer: Karen PurteeReturn to Top

Texas Ridge 1886

Moved from Illinois with family as a child.

Farm wife.

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Box 2		(1) .8 hr; no transcript Rural childhood experiences.	July 12, 1975

11: Benge, Ella May ArdenReturn to Top

Hatter Creek, Princeton 1901

Moved from Winchester, Idaho area (1924).

Farm wife, sawmill worker, cook.

Description
(1,2) see Benge, John (2,4)

12: Benge, John (Dick). Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Hatter Creek, Princeton 1894

Moved from Nebraska with family in 1913.

Lumberjack.

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Box 2	Box 20	(1) 2.1 hr; 55p Logging life. IWW strike for better conditions. Deputy Pat Malone; preacher Dick Ferrell. Trading and neighboring in the depression. Advantages of Idaho farming over Nebraska. Problems with bosses.	July 17, 1973
Box 2	Box 20	(2) and Ella May Benge (wife), with Art Farley (friend) 2.2 hr; 49p Playing jokes on neighbors: shivarees and chicken stealing. Feuding. Keeping peace at town dances. Secrets of water witching and well digging. Decline of land through misuse.	May 3, 1974
Box 2	Box 20	(3) 2.3 hr; 49p Lumberjack ways: East Europeans, camp conditions, poker, characters, fights. An incompetent doreman; good and bad management.	April 4, 1976
Box 2	Box 20	(4) and Ella May Benge, with Peggy Schott (daughter) 3.5 hr; 75p Depression experiences: hardships, selling produce, parties, canning, credit. Her work: sawmilling, clearing land, cooking. Woods work. Home improvements. School plays.	April 27, 1976

13: Benscoter, Walter. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

American Ridge, Kendrick 1898

Parents were homesteaders from Michigan (1885).

Farmer.

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Box 2		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Farming: routines, threshing, economy, changes. Neighborliness.	July 23, 1973
		(2,3) see Callison, Norla (2,3)

14: Benson, Henry. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch, Deary 1894

Parents were Deary area homesteaders.

Engineer on WI&M Railroad.

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Box 2		(1) with Nina Seybold (sister) 1 hr; no transcript Unsafe railroad bridges; a major derailment. Support of IWWs and hoboes. Family homesteading. Joe Wells family.	May 15, 1974

15: Bjerke, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Brush Creek, Deary 1886

Came from Norway with family, who homesteaded in 1891.

Farmer, carpenter, logger.

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Box 2	Box 20	(1) 1.5 hr; 19p Herding cattle in meadow rangelands. Experiences with Nez Perces. Family homesteading. Neighbors. Construction of WI&M. Father's accident and death.	August 15, 1973
Box 2	Box 20	(2) 2.2 hr; 27p Winter surveying with Bill Helmer. Taming an outlaw horse. Impressions of cultural groups. Family farming and grazing methods. Homesteaders' poverty. Oxen logging, wild cattle, and sheep grazing. Deary townsite.	August 20, 1973
Box 2	Box 20	(3) 1.3 hr; 15p Hunting experiences of a sharpshooter. Game animals' habits and history. Early Elk River. Surveying methods.	October 10, 1973
Box 2	Box 20	(4) 2.2 hr; 27p Joe Wells family. Two killings. Impact of Potlatch Lumber Co. Signs of weather, planting, and reproduction. Fruitless mining operations. Spring floods.	May 30, 1975

16: Boag, Violet Frei. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill, Moscow 1909

Parents moved from Kansas c.1890.

Nurse, homemaker.

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Box 2		(1) 1.4 hr; no transcript Slabtown and Collins. 1914 fire. Advantages of moving to Moscow. Becoming a nurse.	October 15, 1976

17: Boas, Louis. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1900

Came from Boise to attend the university.

Editor of "Moscow Daily Star-Mirror" and "Daily Idahonian." (1926-1966)

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Box 2	Box 20	(1) 1.7 hr; 41p Dean French and university social relationships. Faculty, students, and school traditions. Limited oportunities for women. State education. Work as Boise city editor.	July 30, 1976
Box 2	Box 20	(2) 2 hr; 51p Role of small city newspaper. Coverage of local issues. Boosting Moscow. Relation of college to town. Moscow banks in the depression. Frank B. Robinson and Moscow's newspaper rivalry.	September 3, 1976

18: Borah, Mary McConnell. Interviewer: Maureen BassettReturn to Top

Moscow, Washington D.C. 1870

William J. McConnell, her father, first came in 1879 from the Boise Basin and was elected Idaho governor (1892); she came with her mother from Oregon (1888).

Wife of Idaho Senator William Borah.

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Box 3	Box 20	(1) 5 hr; 8p First dinner at the White House with Teddy Roosevelt; her gown. Senator Borah. Her kidnapping as a baby. (Interviw recorded in Beaverton, Oregon for radio broadcast; donated by Sister Mary Christina).	October 15, 1971
		see also Christina, Sister Mary

19: Brammer, Henry. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Cameron, Juliaetta 1881

Family came from Germany via Kansas (1892).

Farmer.

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Box 3	Box 20	(1) 1 hr; 20p Farming in two depressions. Getting started as a farmer. Father's carpentry. Kansas dugout. Rural innovations.	August 20, 1973
Box 3	Box 20	(2) 1 hr; 22p Farm life in the 1890's. Anti-German activity in World War I. Labor organization; hoboes.	August 27, 1973

20: Brink, Carol Ryrie. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1895

Grandfather was a Moscow doctor (1887) trained in Missouri; Father came from Scotland (1889).

Novelist, homemaker. Caddie Woodlawn won the Newberry Award; Buffalo Coat, Snow in the River and Strangers in the Forest are filled with detail about early local life.

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Box 3	Box 20	(1) 1.9 hr; 27p Historical and family background of novels. Sources of writing in childhood. Grandmother and aunt. Moscow mores. Development as a writer. Reading of three true sketches of early Moscow. (Recorded by Mrs. Brink in California in response to taped questions).	June 1975

21: Brocke, Frank. Interviewer: Sam SchregerReturn to Top

Troy, American Ridge, Kendrick 1906

Parents' family came from Germany; father was born at Genesee, mother in Kansas.

President of First Bank of Troy, where he worked for forty-seven years; chairman of school board.

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Box 3	Box 20	(1) 1.5 hr; 39p Learning banking at Kendrick; offer to work at Troy. Advantages of one-room schollhouse. Father's death. World War I and anti-German sentiment.	March 18, 1975
Box 3	Box 20	(2) 1.5 hr; 38p Troy bank and community support in the depression. Victory during Bank holiday. Farm economics and bank policy. Banker Ole Bohman. School consolidation; work as school board clerk.	April 26, 1975
Box 3	Box 20	(3) 1.3 hr; 35p Roles of small town banker. Credit and confidentiality. Country youngsters. Moonshine and dances. Early banking experience. Family struggle.	January 7, 1976
Box 3	Box 20	(4) with Margie Brocke 2 hr; 56p Confidence of Troy bank in local people. Bank resolution of depression crisis. Relations between banker and examiner. Frank Green. Local entertainments.	February 11, 1976
Box 3	Box 20	(5) with Margie Brocke 2.5 hr; 67p Robberies of the Troy bank. Local attitudes toward wealth and prospering. Country-town differences. Santa Claus. Student loans. Causes of 1970's depression.	November 9, 1976

22: Brouillard, Jennie CuthbertReturn to Top

Viola 1886

Nurse, homemaker.

Description
(1) see Byers, Fannie (2)

23: Bubuly, Michael. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1896

Emigrated from Yugoslavia in 1913.

Lamberjack.

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Box 3	Box 20	(1) 2 hr; 44p Protecting a killer at Elk River. 1914 Bovill fires. Bad logging accidents. Bootleg whiskey and Pat Malone. Discrimination against East Europeans. Father's return to Bosnia.	August 14, 1974

24: Buchanan, George (Bud). Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Moscow 1896

Parents' family came from Illinois and Missouri and homesteaded (1870's); he moved to the Coeur d'Alene district as an adult.

Electrician.

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Box 3		(1) .4 hr; no transcript Town social events. Moscow businesses and proprietors.	May 1974

25: Burkland, Joel. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Deary, Bear Creek 1892

Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1880's). William Burkland's cousin.

Operated garage and service station, town marshall, secretary-treasurer of highway district (37 years).

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Box 3		(1) 1.5 hr; no transcript Family's water powered mill. Early Deary, fires and decline. Boy's work and fishing. Marshall's work. Depression debts.	August 15, 1973

26: Burkland, William. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bear Creek, Deary 1887

Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1888).

Farmer, logger.

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Box 3	Box 20	(1) 1.8 hr; 39p Bear Creek homesteading: instability, trading, getting by. Teaching and meetings in Bear Creek school. Why families left Sweden.	February 9, 1976
Box 3	Box 20	(2) 2 hr; 46p Neighboring supplanted by town life. Beginning of Deary. Homesteaders' struggle. Harvest work. Runaway teams.	March 19, 1976

27: Butterfield, Edna Johnson. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Woodfell, Princeton 1890

Family came from Michigan (1888).

Farm wife.

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Box 3		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Family halfway house at Woodfell. Subsistence living. Hoodoo miners and local economy. Early towns.	October 11, 1973
Box 3		(2) 1 hr; no transcript Courtship. Mother's schedule. Dresses. Coming of industry.	October 19, 1973

28: Byers, Fannie Cuthbert. Interviewer: (1) Laura Schrager, (2) Sam Schrager, and (3) Marilyn ChaneyReturn to Top

Fourmile Creek, Viola 1893

Parents were born in Scotland, came from Kansas and homesteaded (1888).

Farm wife, pea processor, harvest cook.

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Box 3		(1) 1 hr; no transcript	May 14, 1974
Box 3	Box 20	(2) and Jennie Brouillard (sister) 2.8 hr; 71p Nursing in a field hospital in France in World War I. Women's work in harvest and processing. Farm self-sufficiency. Viola Community Club. Impact of Adventists. Effects of school consolidation.	November 5, 1976
Box 3		(3) .6 hr; no transcript Happenings in Viola community. Family experiences. (Interview donated by Marilyn Chaney).	undated

29: Callison, Norla. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

American Ridge, Kendrick 1903

Grandfather came from Kansas and homesteaded (1888); mother was from Missouri.

Farmer.

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Box 3	Box 20	(1) 1.5 hr; 35p Farming practices. Joint-owned threshing machine. Forms of neighboring. Rural schooling and chores. Plentiful game. Raising apples. Kansas farming.	August 29, 1973
Box 3	Box 20	(2) and Walter Benscoter (friend) 1.3 hr; 39p Festive get-togethers. Moonshine. Weather and farming. One-room school. Thieves. Early homesteading.	December 7, 1973
Box 3		(3) and Walter Benscoter 1 hr; no transcript Fights and local politicking. Farm co-ops. Depressions. Desire to secede from Idaho. Neighbors.	January 24, 1974

30: Cameron, Viola White. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1906

Parents came from Minnesota (1905).

Homemaker, store clerk, logging camp flunkey.

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Box 3		(1) and Grace Ryan (sister) 1 hr; no transcript Flunkeying and lumberjacks. Social life of Bovill. Mother's work. Loss of Slabtown house in 1914 fire.	July 25, 1974

31: Carlson, Gustav. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Burnt Ridge, Troy 1899

Parents were Swedish immigrants who settled in 1891; he left the area as an adult. Willa Carlson's brother-in-law.

Teacher, census bereau officer.

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Box 4	Box 21	(1) 4 hr; 91p Family interrelationships on Burnt Ridge. Rural school and farm work. Changed attitudes of second generation. Father's socialism and religion. Non-fraternity education at the university. Troy killings.	July 12, 1976
Box 4	Box 21	(2) 3 hr; 64p Tuberculosis among the young. Careers of second generation Burnt Ridgers. Influence of canyons on countryside. Nora Mission Church. Farming methods.	July 15, 1976

32: Carlson, Helena Cartwright. Interviewer: Karen PurteeReturn to Top

Big Meadow, Troy 1899

Came with family from South Dakota (1912).

Teacher, homemaker.

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Box 4	Box 21	(1) 2 hr; 50p Rural school: games, get-togethers, teaching. Chores and play; animal pets. Cultural barriers with Swedish community.	July 6, 1975
Box 4		(2) 1 hr; no transcript Community activities: picnics, parties, school programs. Opposition to school consolidation. Older girls' work.	July 20, 1975
		(3,4) see Carlson, Melvin (1,2)
		(5) see Ruberg, Hilda

33: Carlson, Melvin. Interviewer: Karen PurteeReturn to Top

Big Meadow, Troy 1906

Family came from North Dakota (1912).

Logger, farmer.

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Box 4		(1) and Helena Carlson (sister-in-law) 2 hr; no transcript Farm life as youngster: school, work, play and entertainments. Ice making. Threshing. Local fires.	July 21, 1975
Box 4		(2) and Helena Carlson 2 hr; no transcript Woods living: lumberjacks, work, women in camp. Halloween pranks. Shivarees. Buttermaking and cream. Home remedies.	July 22, 1975

34: Carlson, Willa Cummings. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

American Ridge, Troy 1896

Parents came from Missouri (early 1890's).

Teacher and farm wife; author of manuscript on Latah County history.

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Box 4	Box 21	(1) with Mavis Lee Utley (daughter) 2.2 hr; 33p Disappearance of a buttermaker. A veiled lady. Boarding in Lewiston as a girl. Fortune telling experiences. Prescience.	April 23, 1974
Box 4	Box 21	(2) with Mavis Lee Utley 2 hr; 38p Marshall Hays and family. Fannie and Al Roberts. J.P. Vollmer, the millionaire. Schooling and reading as a youngster.	April 30, 1974
Box 4	Box 21	(3) with Mavis Lee Utley and Helen Johnson (friend) 1.7 hr; 16p Disappearance of Mae Downing. Last account of Winnie Booth. Moving a grave. Death of children from tuberculosis.	May 7, 1974
Box 4	Box 21	(4) 2.5 hr; 48p Social and political views of American Ridgers; racial prejudice and regional divisions. Family adversity: typhoid, house fire, trouble with hired hand. Suspected vigilante hanging. Electioneering. Kendrick fire of 1904.	May 14, 1974
Box 4	Box 21	(5) 1.5 hr; 25p Teacher's responsabilities to the community. Mother-in-law's nursing. Views of cultural groups. American Ridge lore.	May 20, 1974
Box 4	Box 21	(6) 1.7 hr; 43p A country girl at Lewiston Normal: working for keep, sophistication of city elite. Difficult ranching experience. Family prune dryer and cider press.	January 15, 1976

35: Christina, Sister Mary. Interviewer: Lee MagnusonReturn to Top

Beaverton (Oregon) 1899

Nun. She helped care for Mary McConnell Borah at the Maryville home.

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Box 4		(1) .5 hr; no transcript Stories Mary Borah told about her life. Mary Borah's last year.	August 19, 1976

36: Clark, Archie. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch 1886

Came from the Midwest in 1904. Rosie Clark's husband.

Farm laborer.

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Box 4		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Coyote hunting. A pet coyote. Training a horse.	April, 17, 1974

37: Clark, J. LesReturn to Top

Elk River 1904

Native of Manitoba, he arrived in 1923.

Printer.

Description
(1) see Clark, Marie

38: Clark, Marie Jockheck. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Elk River 1908

Father emigrated from Germany, mother was raised in Denver; they came to open a meat market (1912).

Teacher, homemaker.

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Box 4	Box 21	(1) and J. Les Clark (husband) 3.5 hr; 94p Growing up in Elk River. Town social life and cultural groups. Apprenticeship of a printer; Elk River print shop. Tramp printers. Leaving Elk River; loss of mill.	July 9, 1976

39: Clark, Rosie Hecks. Interviewer: Sherrie FieldsReturn to Top

Deep Creek, Potlatch 1893

Family moved from Missouri (1899).

Kitchen worker, farm wife.

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Box 4		(1) .9 hr; no transcript Family farm life. Fears as a girl. Community Fourth of July.	April 17, 1974

40: Clyde, Lola Gamble. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Paradise Ridge, Moscow 1900

Father emigrated from Ireland and became the area's first Presbyterian minister (1880); mother was from Victoria, British Columbia.

Teacher, farm wife; local historian, frequently addresses groups and aids researchers.

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Box 4	Box 21	(1) 1.7 hr; 44p Nez Perce trails and use of area. First white people in county. Place name origins. Why Moscow got the university. Arrival of Clydes with Pennsylvania Dutch (1877). Governor McConnell's bankruptcy (1893). Meeting Ida Tarbell.	December 2, 1974
Box 4	Box 21	(2) 1.5 hr; 36p Father's ministry. Eliza Splading and Nez Perce religion. Family homesteading; mother's interests and isolation. Farm wildflowers and wildlife. Love of school.	December 13, 1974
Box 5	Box 21	(3) with Robert Clyde (son) 2 hr; 36p Killing of Will Steffen for Dr. Watkin's murder. Double suicide of Winnie Booth and Dr. Ledbrook. Folk beliefs. Early politics. The 1903 compilation of North Idaho history. Stories of Shorty Hill.	January 7, 1975
Box 5	Box 21	(4) and Thomas Wahl (brother-in-law), Elizabeth Wahl (sister) 1.3 hr;47p Play parties. Outdoor children's games. Women teaching. Awkwardness of courting. Chatauquas. Auctions.	May 19, 1975
Box 5	Box 21	(5) 1.7 hr; 44p Famous North Idaho women. Subservience of women to husbands. Women and prohibition. Her teaching experience; choice of marriage over career. Depths of the depression. Rural electrification.	June 5, 1975
Box 5	Box 21	(6) 1.7 hr; 25p Ignorance vs independence for young women. Children's lives and troubles. Difficult marriages. Pioneer sickness. Nez Perce myths. Bedtime stories and lullabyes.	July 3, 1975
Box 5	Box 21	(7) 2.5 hr; 80p Women's life in country compared to town. Women's civic achievements in Moscow. Women's teaching opportunities. Family size. Church activities; atitutes about dying. Social relations at university. Anti-German actions during war; Klan in the 1920s. IWW's in harvest. Frank B. Robinson.	October 12, 1976
Box 5		(8) .5 hr; no transcript Nez Perce lore and craft objects. (Presentation given to young people at the McConnell Museum).	undated
Box 5		(9) .5 hr; no transcript Synopsis of Snow in the River, a novel by Carol Brink. (Practice tape made in preparation for public presentation).	undated
Box 5		(10) .7 hr; no transcript McConnell mansion history. (Presentation given at McConnell mansion to Northwest History Group of Faculty Women's Club).	1972
		see also Gamble, Gus (1)

41: Cornelison, Bernardine AdairReturn to Top

Moscow 1897

Singer and voice teacher; taught at the University of Idaho.

Description
(1) see Adair, Ione (4); see also (1-3, 5)

42: Corrin, Glenn. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Troy 1890

Parents came from South Dakota (1890).

General laborer.

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Box 5	Box 21	(1) .9 hr; 12p Marshall Hays: his unpopularity and murder. Joe and Lou Wells. Driving supply wagon east of Troy (1906). Beauty of Bovill townsite.	May 21, 1975

43: Cox, AndrewReturn to Top

American Ridge, Juliaetta 1902

Parents came from Nova Scotia in 1890's.

Farmer.

Description
(1) see Kent, Edward

44: Craig, Anna Vivan Hise. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1887

Came to South Idaho from Nebraska (1907), and after marriage to Orofino and Moscow.

Teacher, homemaker.

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Box 5		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Teaching methods in a one-room schoolhouse. Teachers' moral example for community.	July 26, 1973

45: Crocker, Lester. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Kendrick 1899

Parents came from Pennsylvania and Kansas (early 1890's).

Banker.

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Box 5		(1) .8 hr; no transcript Local fires. Weather and transportation. Wild game.	July 12, 1973

46: Crow, Ada Hill. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Fourmile Creek, Viola 1880

Family moved from Junction City, Oregon and homesteaded (1887).

Farm wife.

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Box 5	Box 21	(1) with Velma Gertz (daughter) 2 hr; 45p Family homesteading: farm produce and 1893 wet harvest. Viola events and settlers. Religious and social gatherings. Typhoid; smallpox. Getting married. Canadian homesteading (1912-1937).	July 24, 1974

47: Crow, Charles. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Palouse, eastern Washington 1879

Family homesteaded in the 1880's. Ada Crow's husband.

Farmer, carpenter.

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Box 5	Box 21	(1) 2.1 hr; 29p Driving horses across eastern Washington. Batching in a dugout as a boy. Rattlesnake lore. Fighting claim jumpers.	July 24, 1974

48: Currin, Walter. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Rimrock, Genesee 1904

Father came in 1878 from the Willamette Valley, Oregon.

Farmer and warehouseman.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 5		(1) 1 hr; no transcript George Peopeoptalkt's friendship with family. Jackson Sundown. Local rodeos.	March 17, 1976

49: Daniels, Eva Slatter. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Cameron, Park, Agatha 1907

Father came from New York City, mother from Missouri (c.1900).

Teacher, farm wife.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 5	Box 21	(1) 2.1 hr; 47p Community functions of school and church. Teaching in rural schools. Working for board. Difficult living at Park. Childhood on homestead. Father's struggle as an orphan in the West.	April 29, 1976

50: Demus, Gus. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch 1892

Emigrated from Greece to the Northwest in 1909, and settled in Potlatch in 1914.

Trimmer at mill, laborer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 5	Box 21	(1) 2.5 hr; 37p Working and living for Greeks in Potlatch; their social separation from Americans. Railroad labor in eastern Washington: boxcar living. Growing up in Dedemah. Departure of Greeks from Potlatch during depression.	August 7, 1975
Box 5	Box 21	(2) 2 hr; 33p Loboring in the Northwest: language barrier, foreman-crew relations. Sending father back to Greece. Ten hour day at Potlatch. IWW radicalism. Getting ahead in America.	September 12, 1975
Box 5	Box 21	(3) 2.5 hr; 47p Work as trimmer in mill: disagreements, foremen, sign language, accidents. Greek living arrangements and lack of security. Company profits. Prostitution.	October 24, 1975
Box 5	Box 21	(4) 1.4 hr; 26p Brother's paranoia. Surviving the depression. Slow advancement in sawmill. Greek bachelors. Visiting Greece after retirement.	September 24, 1976

51: Denevan, Lucille Riddell. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1900

Grew up in Minnesota; came after completing training in Chicago (1919).

Nurse, homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 2 hr; 52p Nursing experiences in Bovill hospital. Decisions as a first aid nurse. Becoming a nurse despise opposition. Value of hard work.	November 11, 1975

52: Diamantis, John. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Elk River 1885

Emigrated from Klitsos, Greece in 1909.

Sawmiller, logger.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Extra gang slavery. IWW victory. Dismantling of Elk River mill. Leaving Elk River.	July 28, 1974

53: Driscoll, Jennie Halverson. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Genesee, Lenville, Driscoll Ridge 1888

Parents homesteaded after emigrating from Norway via Astoria (early 1880's).

Farm wife.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 1.5 hr; 26p Parents' struggle to build farm. Mother's death; caring for family as a girl. Enjoyments and neighboring. Genesee. Why parents left Astoria. The thirties. Pioneering of Driscoll Ridge.	February 17, 1976

54: East, John. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Princeton, Moscow 1882

Came from the Camas Prairie (late 1920's).

Farmer, moonshiner.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6		(1) .8 hr; no transcript Moonshining. Decline of morality.	July 9, 1974

55: Edwards, Mary Grey. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Grey Eagle District, Genesee 1897

Parents came from Nevada and Nebraska (1890's).

Homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 1.7 hr; 43p Family and neighbors in childhood. An Indian-white family. Dances. Life on the farm and in Genesee.	November 3, 1976

56: Eikum, John. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Cow Creek, Genesee 1888

Family arrived in 1893 from Norway.

Farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 2.8 hr; 44p Division of creek by two Lutheran churches. 1893 wet harvest and depression. Family farm life. Genesee stores and moving of town. World War I experience. Homesteading on Coeur d'Alene reservation.	December 8, 1975

57: Erickson, Alfred. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Hog Meadows 1893

Parents came from Minnesota (1892).

Railroad worker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) with Lena Justice and May LeMarr (sisters) 1 hr; 23p Pioneering on Hog Meadows; father's troubles. Girls' work. Killing a bear.	July 26, 1974

58: Estes, Willis. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Viola 1893

Parents came from Iowa before he was born.

Mail carrier; president of Idaho chapter of Rural Letter Carriers Association.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 1.5 hr; 32p Delivering mail in rough conditions. Shoeing and working with horses. Responsability of the mails.	July 9, 1974

59: Fisher, Marie Leitch. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1900

Grew up at Nez Perce, Idaho.

Teacher, homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 2.6 hr; 62p Life of single teacher in the twenties. Bovill social activities. Teaching methods and experiences. Town characters. Depression in Bovill.	October 29, 1975

60: Fleener, Dora Otter. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Rural Moscow 1894

Family moved from South Dakota in 1902.

Farm wife, housekeeper; author of Coming West from South Dakota.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Home life as a girl. Mother's influence on household. Exclusion of women from animal husbandry at university. Fleener family's plains crossing (1852).	August 21, 1973
Box 6	Box 21	(2) 1.5 hr; 29p Working out before marriage. Life during threshing season. Father-in-law's homesteading near Moscow (1870's). Controversy over identities of Wild Davey and William Drannan. Home remedies.	December 16, 1974

61: Flodin, Elmer. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Dry Ridge, Troy 1899

Parents were Swedish homesteaders (early 1880's).

Farmer, logger.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 1 hr; 19p Survival of frontier homesteaders. Support of IWW despite opponents. Local strong men.	June 25, 1974
Box 6		(2) 1 hr; no transcript Destruction of land by fertilizer and logging. Olson family threshing; Wells family. Dry Ridge cemetery.	January 10, 1975

62: Follett, Mahlon. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Genesee 1896

Parents came from Minnesota in the 1880's.

Operated general store.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6		(1) 2 hr; no transcript Follett's store. Flourishing and decline of Genesee. Socializing in town. Problems with credit. Genesee banks. Moving of townsite.	May 3, 1976

63: Fry, Frances Vaughan. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Cedar Creek, Kendrick 1893

Family came from Kansas (1895).

Farm wife, cook for woods crews, doctor's assistant, store clerk.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 2 hr; 52p Canning and baking; feeding family and guests. Neighborhood sharing and visiting. A lazy family. Local religious life. Mother's farm work, and her own.	August 3, 1976
Box 6	Box 21	(2) 2 hr; 55p Her work to make ends meet. Raising children. Neighborhood life. Severe winters.	February 18, 1977

64: Gamble, Daniel (Bert). Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Paradise Ridge 1887

Lola Clyde's brother.

Worked for woods produscts corporation; poet.

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tape	transcript
Box 6		(1) .8 hr; no transcript "The Poet of the Palouse" reading thirty of his poems.	December 5, 1973

65: Gamble, Gus. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Genesee, Paradise Ridge 1890

Daniel Gamble's brother.

Farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6		(1) with Lola Clyde (sister) and Bob Clyde (nephew) 1.4 hr; no transcript Stories of Shorty Hill: his brother's lynching; murder on the Twenty-One Ranch. Wild Davey. Hemesteading near Elk River (1912).	November 25, 1974
Box 6		(2) 1.1 hr; no transcript More about Shorty Hill. Harvest work as a boy.	December 18, 1974

66: Gamble, W. J. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch 1884

Came from Pennsylvania in 1910.

General manager of WI&M Railroad for 33 years; lobbyist for North Idaho lumber interests in state legislature.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 6	Box 21	(1) 1.5 hr; 32p Selection of Potlatch for the lumber mill and townsite. Advantages of company town. Shipping resources on WI&M. Relations with other railroads. Working west from Pennsylvania. Problems of logging in Idaho Mountains. Decline of Potlatch.	December 14, 1973
Box 6-7	Box 21	(2) 1.9 hr; 40p Company operation of town of Potlatch. General Managers Deary and Laird. Dealing with the IWW. Company policies during the depression. Attitudes towards workingmen. Potlatch Japanese. Lobbying experiences. Weyerhaeuser family.	June 6, 1975

67: Gilder, Agnes ClarkReturn to Top

Harvard, Spring Valley 1903

Came with family from Seattle, Washington (1919).

Farm wife.

Description
(1) see Gilder, Glen

68: Gilder, Glen. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Harvard, Spring Valley 1901

Parents came to the Washington Palouse country from Ontario and Iowa (c.1890).

Farmer, laborer, boilerman.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 7	Box 21	(1) 1.8 hr; 29p Meaning of neighboring. Work and play. Hoodoo miners. Old Palouse River road. Father's farming.	May 22, 1975
		(2) see Nichols, George
tape	transcript
Box 7	Box 21	(3) 2.5 hr; 32p Farm life versus city life. Tenacity of local people. Farmers' reliance on Potlatch mill. Selling milk in the depression. Mistreatment of Indians.	June 17, 1975
Box 7	Box 21	(4) with Agnes Gilder (wife) 2.5 hr; 49p Equality of farm families. Rural view of Potlatch. Marrying and raising children. Working-out while farming. Search for a missing man. Huckleberrying. Home remedies.	July 29, 1975
Box 7	Box 21	(5) with Agnes Gilder 1.8 hr; 29p Struggle to be an independent farmer: part-time farming, loss of farm in the thirties. A new start. First jobs.	December 9, 1976
		see also Wurman, Mamie

69: Glenn, John (Bruce). Interviewer: Karen PurteeReturn to Top

Potlatch Ridge, American Ridge, Juliaetta 1904

Roy Glenn's brother.

Oil deliveryman.

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tape	transcript
Box 7		(1) with Agnes Glenn (wife) 1.8 hr; no transcript Farm self-sufficiency; farming equipment. Juliaetta and Kendrick. Dr. Ruffle. School and dances. Tramway.	September 28, 1975

70: Glenn, Mabel RichardsonReturn to Top

Texas Ridge, Fix Ridge, Juliaetta 1906

Parents came from Oregon (1893).

Farm wife, farmer.

Description
(1) see Glenn, Roy

71: Glenn, Roy. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Texas Ridge, Potlatch Ridge, Kendrick 1903

Family came from North Carolina (1904).

Auctioneer, farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 7	Box 21	(1) and Mabel Glenn (wife) 1.8 hr; 45p Farm living as youngsters. Boundary disputes. Developing farm as a rentor. Tension with German community during wars. Early Kendrick and Leland.	November 18, 1976

72: Goff, Abe MacGregor. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow, Washington, D.C. 1899

Moved to Moscow to attend university; father homesteaded near Rosalia, Washington.

Lawyer, state legislator, U.S. Congressman, chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission.

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tape	transcript
Box 7	Box 21	(1) 1.8 hr; 28p Prohibition in the county: moonshining, drinking and evangelism. Arson and robbery cases. Teddy Roosevelt's Moscow speech (1911). World War I at university; working through school. Family move west; father's fight against rustlers. Naming of Moscow.	November 13, 1974
Box 7	Box 21	(2) 1.6 hr; 36p Moscow court cases. Successful enforcement of prohibition. Depression in the county. Serving as legislator and congressman.	November 26, 1974

73: Gorman, Madeleine Groh. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1913

Parents emigrated from Alsace, France and operated Bovill's mercantile store.

Homemaker.

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tape	transcript
Box 7	Box 21	(1) 2 hr; 46p Father's friendship with Nez Perces. Return to France as a child; mother's adjustment to America. Fires in Bovill and Kendrick. Tent meetings. Home remedies. First World War. Town characters.	August 21, 1974

74: Grannis, Kate Price. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Avon 1886

Parents homesteaded (c.1885), coming from California and Kansas via Cheney, Washington.

Homemaker, mica cutter, cook.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 7	Box 21	(1) 2.3 hr; 45p Homebound life of rural women. Neighboring. Homestead poverty. Work at mica mine. Wells family. An Avon murder.	February 24, 1976

75: Groseclose, Dixie BaughReturn to Top

Potlatch River, Juliaetta 1900

Came with family from Bland County, Virginia in 1907.

Farm wife.

Description
see Groseclose, Edward

76: Groseclose, Edward. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch River, Juliaetta 1900

Came with family from Bland County, Virginia in 1902.

Section man on railroad, farmer, poet.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 7	Box 21	(1) and Dixie Groseclose (wife) 2 hr; 51p Homesteading in Potlatch Canyon. Goodness of Nez Perces. Flooding of Potlatch River. Railroad work at Arrow Junction. Cedarville settlement.	March 9, 1976
Box 7	Box 21	(2) and Dixie Groseclose 3 hr; 76p Family and community traditions from Virginia. Settling of Arrow by Virginia kin and neighbors. Her experiences as a youngster. Religious life. Misuse of blacks and Indians. Disputed strips of reservation land.	June 1, 1976
Box 8	Box 21	(3) and Dixie Groseclose 3.6 hr; 96p Adversity: house fire, quarantine, making do. Courtship. Her work. Foster and Adams as promoters. Aunt Susan. Hoboes. Southern witches. Religious differences.	July 21, 1976

77: Grove, Clara Payne. Interviewer: (1) Emily Moore and (2-5) Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow, Troy 1879

Born in Iowa, she lived in the Dakotas and Montana before coming in 1925.

Editor, cook, nurse's aid, columnist; leader of Women's Christian Temperance Union.

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tape	transcript
Box 19		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Editing Troy Weekly News. Local life in the twenties.	February 20, 1974
Box 8	Box 22	(2) 1.9 hr; 38p WCTU work: jail visiting, charity, temperance conversions. Editing newspaper despite opposition to businesswomen. Boarding students. Feeding the hungry. A woman's struggle through college. Women's suffrage; early politics.	November 7, 1975
Box 8	Box 22	(3) 1.9 hr; 37p WCTU crusade: protests in saloons, taking the pledge, Frances Willard. Family ties and self-reliance. Salvation Army selflessness. Caring for sick. Misuse of volunteer work in World War I. Childhood experiences.	November 21, 1975
Box 8	Box 22	(4) 2.6 hr; 48p Life roles and responsabilities of rural women. Views on child rearing and divorce. Preachers, revivals, and the Sabbath. Teaching and homesteading in Dakotah and Montana. Attending university in her eighties.	December 16, 1975
Box 8	Box 22	(5) 2 hr; 38p The management of marriage. Opposition to divorce. Fundamental values. Working as a woman. Overabundance of wealth in America.	May 11, 1976

78: Gruell, Crystal Ottosen. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Juliaetta 1905

Parents were raised in Denmark and Iowa, and came in 1908.

Teacher, homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) with Cecil Gruell (husband) 2 hr; 54p Working at Juliaetta cannery. Local cherry industry. Teacher training and experience. Town church and social life; rivalry with Kendrick. Hard times.	July 21, 1976

79: Guernsey, Viola Sheldon. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Princeton, Onaway 1894

Family came from the Midwest via Nebraska (1910).

Homemaker, grocery store operator.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) with Getha Guptill (friend) 1.8 hr; 31p Family's search for a new home. Attending Ursuline Academy. Teaching experience. Church activities; Reverend Dick Ferrell. Loss of store in the depression. Onaway.	April 27, 1976

80: Guilfoy, Leo. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1886

An Irishman, he came from England in 1916.

Scaler and treating plant operator at cedar pole yard.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) 1.5 hr; 42p Lumberjack humor: tales of Bill Deary, Bill Helmer, Pat Malone and others. Bear stories. Experiences as Scoutmaster. Bovill electric plant and movie house. Cedar pole work.	December 10, 1973
Box 8	Box 22	(2) 1.5 hr; 37p Origins of Lumberjack nicknames. IWW radicalism and blackballing. Refusing to join Four-L's. Spokane employment offices. Dick Ferrell; Axel Anderson.	July 3, 1974

81: Gustin, Clay. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Helmer, Moscow Mountain 1900

Parents probably came from Utah in the 1890s.

Logger.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Work on Park sleigh-haul and McGary Butte fire. Good ecology of early logging methods.	July 25, 1973

82: Halen, Alben. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Big Bear Ridge, Deary 1896

Parents were Swedish homesteaders (c.1890).

Farmer, logger.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) 1.5 hr; 26p Farming with horses. Hard times for farmers. Logging for Potlatch. Farmer opposition to IWW.	February 9, 1976
Box 8	Box 22	(2) 1.5 hr; 34p Working out as a boy. Fires and early growth of Deary. Joe Well's logging operation. Piling lumber. Grave digging.	February 20, 1976

83: Halseth, Edward. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Big Bear Ridge, Jansville 1894

Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (1890's).

Farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Homesteading and local happenings. Frontier hardships in Montana.	December 20, 1974

84: Hampton, Elvon. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Grey Eagle District, Genesee 1911

Parents came from North Carolina in the late 1880's.

Farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) 1.8 hr; 42p Father's management of Genesee's largest farm operation. Rotation of crops and livestock. Hired hands. Rural isolation; chatauquas. Choice of farming career.	May 3, 1976

85: Handlin, Nellie Tomer. Interviwer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1897

Father's parents were among the county's first settlers, coming from California in 1871; mother was from Indiana.

Homemaker, cashier.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Tomers' pioneering. Relations with Nez Perces. Selection of Moscow Cemetery site. School and reading as a girl.	December 17, 1973

86: Hardt, Verna Palmer. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Viola 1905

Grandfather first came to the region with Captain Mullan's Army outfit (c. 1858); parents' families both moved from Oregon (1876 and 1880).

Homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) 2 hr; 49p Family adventures, migration and settling. Viola events. Cattle herding experiences. Indians. Chinese miners. (Tape recorded by Mrs. Hardt for her brother, Glen Palmer, who was the doner.)	undated

87: Hazeltine, Mabel Oliver. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Fourmile Creek, Viola 1901

Parents came from Sprague, Washington area (1901).

Farm wife.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) .8 hr; 20p Social life: games, dances, revivals. Chores and staples. Move to Canada. Childbirth.	June 3, 1974

88: Herrmann, Beulah Dollar. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow, Troy 1900

Moved from Colorado (1928).

Clerk for Psychianna.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) 1 hr; 27p Frank B. Robinson's integrity and his relations in Moscow. Working for Psychianna.	November 9, 1976

89: Herzog, Frank. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Harvard 1898

Came with parents from Pennsylvania in 1900.

Logger, farmer, trapper.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
		(1) see Nichols, George
Box 8		(2) 2 hr; no transcript Trapping bear, coyotes and mink. Changing population of game animals. Lumberjack life: risks, fighting, drinking. Family's work. Corporate control of country.	July 18, 1975

90: Hickman, William (Dave)Return to Top

Genesee 1900

Father came from North Carolina (1888); mother's family came from Wisconsin (1881).

Soil conservationist.

Description
(1) see Platt, E.J.

91: Holland, Joseph. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1900

Grew up in South Dakota and Saskatchewan.

Depot agent at Bovill (1925-66); school board chairman, mayor, justice of the peace.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 8	Box 22	(1) 2 hr; 41p Bovill's way of life. Experiences as depot agent and judge. Relief in the depression. Lumberjacks and extra gangs. Pat Malone. Leo Guilfoy's humor.	July 25, 1974
Box 8-9	Box 22	(2) 2.6 hr; 47p Railroad work and anecdotes. Local attitudes toward Potlatch Lumber Company. Conflict over school consolidation; problems of running town. CCC's. The depot clock.	August 23, 1974

92: Hove, Palma Hanson. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Cow Creek, Genesee 1893

Mother was raised in Norway, father in Wisconsin. They arrived in the 1880's.

Farm wife, harvest cook.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) 2 hr; 48p Cook wagon at harvesttime. Family farm life. Division of Cow Creek by two Lutheran churches. Young people's socializing. Early Genesee.	June 13, 1975

93: Ingle, Florence Hupp. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Big Bear Ridge, Little Bear Ridge, Kendrick 1884

Family came from California and homesteaded (1886).

Teacher, farm wife.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) 1 hr; 21p Relations among settlers. J.P. Vollmer's bad loan practices. Early communities.	August 22, 1973

94: Ingle, Gerald. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Big Bear Ridge, Kendrick 1910

Son of Florence Ingle. Grandfather was a homesteader from Tennesee (1883).

County commissioner for 20 years, farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) 2.7 hr; 73p County school consolidation. Community life on the ridge. Father and grandfather. Depression and bank closure. Growing up; attending the university. Attitudes as a public official.	October 7, 1976

95: Jackson, Alice Henry. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Lapwai 1885

Mother was Nez Perce; father moved from Asotin County, Washington (c. 1890).

Farm wife.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) .7 hr; 16p Nez Perce way of life. Nez Perce Christian hymns.	February 5, 1974

96: Jelleberg, Charles. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Park 1900

Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (c. 1890).

Horse teamster, sawmiller.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) and Carl Lancaster (friend) 2 hr; 72p Handling teams; balky horses. Logging accidents and narrow escapes. Foremen; incompetent partners. Abortive IWW strike of 1936. Pay and production. Closeness of homesteaders.	August 8, 1973

97: Johnson, Clarence. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Burnt Ridge, Troy 1895

Parents were homesteaders from Sweden (1884).

Farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9		(1) .3 hr; no transcript 1893 depression; J.P. Vollmer. Early Troy.	February 8, 1974

98: Johnson, Della Beardsley. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Rural Moscow, Moscow 1887

Family came from California (1903).

Farm wife, dressmaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) 1 hr; 21p Driving horses from California as a girl. Women's farm life. Attending the university. Dressmaking.	December 13, 1973

99: Johnson, Hattie Wilken. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Cameron 1897

Parents were German homesteaders (1886).

Farm wife, hotel and house maid.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) 2.5 hr; 67p Family work and neighboring. Anti-German wartime sentiment. German Lutheran Church and language. Feeding threshing crews. Work at Portland's Multnomah Hotel.	August 4, 1976

100: Johnson, Oscar. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Troy 1901

Came with father from Sweden in 1910.

Worked at firebrick plant for forty years.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9		(1) .7 hr; no transcript Work for firebrick company. Early Troy. Father's life.	October 1, 1976

101: Johnson, Walter. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Moscow 1892

Parents were Swedish immigrants who moved from Minnesota (1882).

Accountant.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9		(1) .5 hr; no transcript Killing of Dr. Watkins. David's Store.	January 16, 1974

102: Jones, Agnes Healy. Interviewer: (1) Rob Moore and (2,3)Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Thorn Creek, Genesee 1890

Mother's parents (Tierneys) were the first white settlers of the Genesee area, coming from Kansas in 1870; father emigrated from Ireland (early 1870's).

Farm wife, waitress.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) 1.8 hr; 63p Family pioneering. Settlement of Thorn Creek. Fear of Indians. Early farming and threshing; 1893 wet harvest.	August 31, 1973
Box 9	Box 22	(2) 1 hr; 27p Raising geese. Father Cataldo. Rosenstein's kindness; Vollmer's foreclosures. Genesee.	May 6, 1976
Box 9	Box 22	(3) .3 hr; 9p Growing up on the farm.	May 19, 1976

103: Justice, Albert. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill area 1898

Family moved to Spokane from North Dakota (1905).

Head cook in lumbercamps between the two world wars.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) 3 hr; 73p Running logging camp kitchens. Quality of food; art of camp cooking. Problems with cleanliness and help. IWW winning of decent conditions. Gyppo cooking and conflict with union. Bovill restaurant in wartime.	August 23, 1974

104: Justice, Lena (Molly) Erickson. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Hog Meadows, Bovill 1901

Parents came from Minnesota (1892). Albert Justice's wife.

Logging camp flunkey, homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9	Box 22	(1) .8 hr; 15p Work of flunkeys. Attitudes towards women in the camps; good and bad horses. Family homesteading struggle.	August 20, 1974
Box 9	Box 22	(2) and May LeMarr (sister) 1 hr; 23p Flunkeying and logging camp practices. Isolation and home life. Selling huckleberries.	August 23, 1974
		see also Erickson, Alfred

105: Kauder, William. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Cedar Creek, Southwick 1868

Homesteaded alongside parents, after moving from Illinois (1889).

Farmer.

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Box 9	Box 22	(1) 1 hr; 16p 1893 depression. Getting settled; help from neighbors. Political views of 1890's. Entertainment. Land clearing. Kendrick.	February 13, 1974
Box 9	Box 22	(2) 1 hr; 14p Developing the homestead. Pioneering ways. Available work.	May 3, 1974
Box 9	Box 22	(3) .7 hr; 9p Struggles of homesteading. Opening reservation to homesteading. Coming west.	June 1, 1974

106: Kellberg, Ruth Anderson. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Burnt Ridge, Troy 1899

Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1890).

Farm wife.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 9		(1) .5 hr; no transcript Pioneer hardships. Religious traditions.	June 13, 1974

107: Kent, Edward. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

American Ridge, Juliaetta 1889

Came with mother from Nova Scotia in 1898.

Farmer, cowboy.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
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Box 9		(1) and Andrew Cox (half-brother) 1.3 hr; no transcript Farming on American Ridge. Early impressions of Idaho. Cowboy work. Nez Perces on the Potlatch. Juliaetta. Preaching and schools.	August 10, 1976

108: Lancaster, Carl. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Helmer, Harvard 1902

Parents came from Pennsylvania before he was born.

Logger, woods blacksmith and maintenance man.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
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		(1) see Jelleberg, Charles
Box 9		(2) .5 hr; no transcript Old logging terms. Tangling with a crazy man. Tricks and jokes.	November 21, 1973

109: Lawrence, Floyd. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Jansville, Helmer 1898

Family came from Iowa and homesteaded on McGary Meadow (1893).

Logger, operator of dance pavilion.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
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Box 10	Box 22	(1) and Nona Lawrence (wife) 2.4 hr; 69p Jansville store on the Lawrence homestead. Beginning of Helmer. Operating a popular dancehall. Timber homesteaders. Gyppo logging for Potlatch. Joe and Lou Wells.	January 21, 1976
Box 10	Box 22	(2) and Nona Lawrence, with Carl Lancaster (brother-in-law) and Laura May Lancaster (sister-in-law) 2.2 hr; 64p Neighborliness and poverty of homesteaders. Local inventors. Cattle on open range. Working when young. Malker Anderson.	January 27, 1976

110: Lawrence, Nona WilkinsReturn to Top

Helmer 1898

Parents came from Kentucky and ran pioneer store at Helmer.

Farm wife, operator of dance hall pavilion.

Description
(1,2) see Lawrence, Floyd (1,2)

111: Leland, Ruth. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Juliaetta 1890

Moved from Wyoming with family (1906).

Store clerk, minister of United Brethren Church.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 10	Box 22	(1) 1.5 hr; 21p Local church history and revivals. Children's Day. Nez Perce Christianity. Discrimination against Nez Perces. Alexander's Store. Foster School of Healing.	May 25, 1976

112: LeMarr, May EricksonReturn to Top

Hog Meadows 1907

Logging camp flunkey, homemaker.

Description
(1) see Justice, Lena (2); see also Erickson, Alfred

113: Lepard, George. Interviewer: Sandie GittelReturn to Top

Potlatch 1899

Family came in 1906 after living elsewhere in North Idaho.

Grocer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 10		(1) .8 hr; no transcript Potlatch town and mill. Father's medical practice. (Interview donated by his son, George Lepard.)	February 14, 1974

114: Lew, Marie LeeReturn to Top

Moscow 1910

Came to Spokane from China in 1920.

Restaurateur.

Description
(1-4) see Lew, Mi (1-4)

115: Lew, Mi. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1905

Came to Walla Walla from China with his father in 1911.

Restaurateur.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 10	Box 22	(1) and Marie Lew (wife) 1.6 hr; 44p Reasons Chinese came to America. Their fathers' early American experiences. Growing up in Walla Walla. Cooperative truck gardening. Herb doctoring in Spokane. Family structure. Subsistence farming in China.	November 20, 1975
Box 10	Box 22	(2) and Marie Lew 1.5 hr; 39p Role of Christianity in adapting to America. Loans and debts. Running Moscow café in the depression. Return to China in 1929. Spokane Chinese community. Tongs.	December 10, 1975
Box 10	Box 22	(3) and Marie Lew 1.9 hr; 54p Separation of families. Her immigration to America. Chinese community building in Walla Walla. Social controls within community. Life of truck gardeners.	January 20, 1976
Box 10	Box 22	(4) and Marie Lew 2 hr; 57p Discrimination in the twenties. Universities' social activities for Asians in Moscow and Pullman. Restaurant work. Fate of people returning to China. Youth in Walla Walla.	October 7, 1976

116: Long, F. Marvin. Interviewer: (1,2) Rob Moore and (3) Lee MagnusonReturn to Top

Kendrick, Cedar Creek, Leland 1894

Family moved from North Carolina (1888).

Operator of mercantile store.

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Box 10	Box 22	(1) 1 hr; 28p Running general store. Family livestock business. Father's freighting. Junk business.	July 3, 1973
Box 10		(2) .5 hr; no transcript Kendrick fire (1904). Tramway and brick factory. Ice cutting.	July 10, 1973
Box 10	Box 22	(3) 1 hr; 20p Leland as a thriving town. Failure of family fruit ranch. Starting business in Kendrick. Early Kendrick; Gene Chinaman.	February 27, 1976
		see also Long, Martha (2)

117: Long, Martha Lowery. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Kendrick, eastern Washington 1903

Parents came from North Dakota and homesteaded near Quincy, Washington (1902).

Extension specialist for Chelan County and Washington state; homemaker, teacher.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
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Box 10	Box 22	(1) 2 hr; 61p Youth on a drought-stricken homestead. Family holiday customs. Mother's character. Family move to Pullman. Attending Washington State College.	October 25, 1976
Box 10	Box 22	(2) with Marvin Long (husband) 3 hr; 85p Work as home extension agent in the depression. Conditions of Chelan County people in the depression. Work as state clothing specialist. Teaching at Culdesac; other jobs. The Long house. Kendrick's hobo. Long mercantile store.	November 18, 1976
Box 10		(3) .3 hr; no transcript Historical roses of the Kendrick area. (Presentation prepared as project of Hill and Valley Garden Club, with accompanying slides.)	December 9, 1976

118: Lynd, Mary WestReturn to Top

Palouse 1895

Moved with family from Illinois in 1904.

Farm wife.

Description
(1) see Wurman, Mamie

119: Mahon, Catherine. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Juliaetta, Lewiston-Clarkston 1906

Father, a New York Irishman, was manager of Juliaetta cannery; mother came from Oregon (1884)

Operator of greenhouse and beauty salon, teacher.

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tape	transcript
Box 10	Box 22	(1) .8 hr; 18p Limited opportunities for women. Local Jewish families. Books and culture. Southerners in the West.	August 27, 1976
Box 10	Box 22	(2) 3.5 hr; 84p Grandparents' experiences and attitudes; old standards of morality. Lives of prostitutes in Lewiston. J.P. Vollmer and early Lewiston wealth. Dr. Foster and Juliaetta. Mother's sickness as a girl. Cannery and war shortages. Family politics.	September 27, 1976
Box 10	Box 22	(3) 3.1 hr, 75p Progressive upbringing in a close family. Openness and equality in the West. Development of Clarkston townsite by proper Bostonians; Clarkston society. Ku Klux Klan; race prejudice. German Catholics. Mother's work as Tribune correspondent.	October 21, 1976
Box 11	Box 22	(4) 4 hr; 102p Cannery management and role in Juliaetta life. Work of beauticians in Lewiston. Unpleasant teaching experience. Abuses of children's welfare. Closeness to father. Lewiston Jewish families.	November 11, 1976

120: Maloney, JoeReturn to Top

Spokane, North Idaho 1892

Came from Pennsylvania in 1915.

Employment agent, camp foreman.

Description
(1) see Murphy, Dan

121: Martin, Roy. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

North Idaho 1908

"Roy Martin" is a pseudonym.

Hobo, lumberjack, laborer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 11	Box 22	(1) 3.6 hr; 71p Panhandling. Riding freights. Friendships with partners. Wintering with wealth in Spokane. Camp-inspecting. Floating population. IWW protection of workers. Woods, mine and harvest work. Serving in Phillipines.	July 2, 1976
Box 11	Box 22	(2) 1.8 hr; 26p Importance of IWW. Good-hearted prostitutes. Hoboes and freight hopping. Employment sharks.	July 30, 1976

122: McKeever, George. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Kendrick 1897

Family came from Missouri in the 1890's.

Dentist.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 11		(1) 2 hr; no transcript Practicing dentistry in Kendrick. Kendrick foundings, fire and flood. Hard work as youth. Chinese in Kendrick. Masonic Lodge. Advantages of small town.	August 4, 1976

123: Messersmith, Hazel BramlettReturn to Top

Lapwai 1888

Parents were early settlers of Dayton, Washington area.

Homemaker, worked in post office and store.

Description
(1) see Messersmith, Lewis

124: Messersmith, Lewis. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Lapwai 1889

Learned trade in Pennsylvania; came West in 1905.

Blacksmith.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 11	Box 22	(1) and Hazel Messersmith (wife) 1.7 hr; 40p Len Henry, the famous liar. Blacksmith work and inventions. Shop fire and depression survival. Attitudes towards Nez Perces. Aunt Kate MacBeth and Jenny Barton. Lapwai's decline.	January 21, 1975

125: Milbert, Frank. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Gold Hill, Potlatch 1907

Came west from Pennsylvania in the twenties.

Gold miner.

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tape	transcript
Box 11	Box 22	(1) 2.5 hr; 54p Discovery of Gold Hill gold (1861). Gold Creek rush (1868). Gold rush life. Carrico family mining. Persecution of Chinese miners. Lost Wheelbarrow Mine. Park Shattuck's mining experiences.	June 18, 1975
Box 11	Box 22	(2) 3 hr; 58p Dowsing for gold. Stories about local miners. Promoters. How gold spurred early settlement. Gold mining in the twenties. Dredging the Palouse River. Nature of gold miners.	June 20, 1975

126: Miller, John B. Interviewer: Sam Schrager and Rob MooreReturn to Top

Bovill 1912

Parents came from Minnesota (1902).

Geologist; author of The Trees Grew Tall (1972), Bovill area history.

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tape	transcript
Box 11	Box 22	(1) 1.7 hr; 47p Bovill's nature as a logging town. Causes for its decline. Deputy Pat Malone. Mother's hard workday. Gathering historical material; appeal of the past.	July 18, 1973

127: Moody, George (Hap). Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1885

Came from Vermont (1914).

County deputy and sheriff (1922-1955); famous university football booster.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 11	Box 23	(1) with Bertha Moody (wife) 2 hr; 36p Impersonating lawbreakers. Trackdowns and arrests. Prohibition drinking and moonshining. Policing strikes: resisting bribes. Cooperation among lawmen. Prisoners and county jail. University football.	February 28, 1974

128: Moore, Elsie Adair. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill, Princeton 1899

Father came from Oregon in 1882.

Homemaker.

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tape	transcript
Box 11		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Bovill family. Beginning of Bovill; first businesses.	December 1973

129: Morgan, William. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Lewiston and vicinity 1895

Parents farmed near Nezperce after leaving Kansas (1898).

Owner of Morgan Brothers, food and equipment distributors.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 11	Box 23	(1) 3.4 hr; 74p	October 28, 1976

130: Morris, Mabell Nickell. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Elk River, Potlatch 1887

Came from central Canada in 1907.

Drugstore operator, homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 11	Box 23	(1) with Lillian Yangel (daughter) and Chester Yangel (son-in-law) 3.3 hr; 70p The T.P. Jones's. Elk River drugstore. Lumberjacks. Town social activities and isolation. Devasting impact of mill removal. Elk River before the mill. Potlatch mercantine store.	May 14, 1976

131: Muhsal, Edward. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch 1903

Father was sent by company from Wisconsin (1908).

Sawmiller.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 11	Box 23	(1) 2 hr; 52p Deathes in mill accidents. Working at the mill. Social life. Good work of IWW's. Foreign groups. Wartime prejudice against Germans.	September 16, 1975

132: Munden, Mamie SardamReturn to Top

Lewiston, Clarkston 1906

Mother's family came from Missouri (1886), father from Nebraska (c.1894).

Farm wife.

Description
(1) see Wurman, Mamie

133: Murphy, Dan. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill area 1887

Came from Wisconsin in 1908.

Logging clerk, scales and cedar pole inspector.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) and Joe Maloney (friend) 1.6 hr; 45p Life of single lumberjacks: hard work, honesty, blowing-in. Jungling up; camp inspectors. Stories of Weyerhaeuser brothers, Dick Ferrell and Big Gil. Eccentric camp cooks. Playing tricks in camp. IWW's.	August 22, 1974

134: Nelson, Elsie. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1890

Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1886).

Head cook at Hotel Moscow, teacher; author of Today Is Ours.

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tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) 1.5 hr; 6p Moscow beginnings and existence as a pioneer town. Homesteaders' relation to Moscow.	March 14, 1974
Box 12	Box 23	(2) 1.5 hr; 6p Swedish Christmas. Indians and other cultural groups. Homestead economics; father's railroading.	March 27, 1974

135: Newman, Ida Mielke. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Cameron 1898

Parents were German pioneers who came from Minnesota in 1901.

Farm wife, teacher; author of History of Cameron, Idaho.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) 2 hr; 63p Family stress on education and equality. Life in a German community. Games, dances and literaries. Patriotism and tensions in First World War. Attending and teaching school.	February 18, 1977

136: Nichols, George. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Harvard 1888

Came from Deer Park, Washington to work on building of WI&M railroad (1904).

Laborer.

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tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) and Frank Herzog, Glen Gilder (friends) 3 hr; 74p Early settlement on Palouse River. Arrival of Potlatch Lumber Company. Logging, river drives, foremen; contribution of IWWs. Harvard's beginning. Hoodoo mining ventures. An ostracized family. Bee trees and trapping. Evil of corporations and politicians.	May 28, 1975

137: Nordby, Rudolph. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Cow Creek, Genesee 1889

Family came from Iowa (1900).

County commissioner for eighteen years; farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) 8 hr; 18p Threshing and farm practices. Locating in the area. Building family home.	July 5, 1973

138: Nye, Maeci Groseclose. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Juliaetta 1895

Came with parents from Kentucky (1903).

Teacher, farmer, farm wife; author of manuscript history of Juliaetta.

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tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) 1.5 hr; 43p Foster's hospital and Juliaetta's decline. Father's undertaking business. Abraham Adams. Juliaetta: celebrations and fires. Spiritualists. Dislike of teaching.	March 11, 1976

139: Olson, Carl. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Dry Ridge, Troy 1895

Parents emigrated from Sweden and homesteaded (1889).

Thresherman, operator of gas station and car dealership, sawmiller, miner; Troy councilman for 24 years.

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tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) 1.5 hr; 37p Legendary local characters. Why parents left Sweden; Varmlanders come to Troy. Getting by on the homestead. Family copper mine and brickmaking. Neighborhood criminals. Decline of opportunity; ruin of country by erosion.	August 6, 1973
Box 12	Box 23	(2) 1.5 hr; 25p Food and water on family homestead. Clearing land. Road building. Homestead ethics. Town of Nora. Tramps.	August 17, 1973
Box 12	Box 23	(3) 2 hr; 40p More local characters. Impact of depression. Blaming smut fires on IWW. How environment shapes people. Unusual personal experiences. Social problems. City council.	November 8, 1973
Box 12	Box 23	(4) 2.5 hr; 67p Threshing on the ridges in the twenties. Difficulties selling cars. Service station during depression. Struggles of homesteaders. Work in small sawmills.	February 21, 1975

140: Olson, Ella Olson. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Pleasant Hill, Troy 1897

Father came from Sweden (1884), mother from Norway (1887).

Cook, pea processor, housekeeper, homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) 1.2 hr; 27p Cooking for sawmill and threshing crews. Life of country youths. Marriage. Spokane housekeeping. Mica cutting and pea picking. Depression.	October 1, 1976

141: Olson, Hazel HillReturn to Top

Deary 1920

Moved from central Idaho in the early forties.

Homemaker, teacher, camp flunkey.

Description
(1) see Olson, Oscar

142: Olson, MargaretReturn to Top

Deary 1910

Teacher.

Description
(1) see Olson, Ruth

143: Olson, Oscar. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Deary 1906

Father was a Swedish homesteader (1890's).

Foreman, scaler, logger.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) and Hazel Olson (wife) 2 hr; 77p Living in a lumbercamp. Pleasures of flunkeying. Violent Pierce strike (1936). Lumberjack nicknames. Unmarried women teachers. Father's mistreatment of Sweden. Depression hardships.	June 16, 1976

144: Olson, Ruth. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Deary 1906

Parents came from Minnesota and homesteaded (1907).

Teacher.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 12		(1) and Margaret Olson (sister) 1.5 hr; no transcript Teaching and teachers' authority in small communities. Choice of career and training. Entertainment for young. Play and chores on homestead. Decline of small towns.	June 16, 1976

145: Oslund, Anna Marie Anderson. Interviewer: Laura Schrager and Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Troy, Nora Creek 1891

Emigrated from Sweden with family in 1903.

Teacher, homemaker; author of manuscript on Troy area history.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) 1.5 hr; 15p Family comes to America: hard life in Sweden, decision and preparation, the journey. Father's homestead. Schooling.	December 14, 1973

146: Otness, Lillian Woodworth. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1908

Grandfather was an original founder of Moscow, moving from eastern Oregon (1871); father came from Montana (1877).

Teacher of English and physical education in college and high school; homemaker.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 12	Box 23	(1) 1 hr; 20p A.A. Lieuallen's move to Moscow area. Loss of cattle in winter of 1873. His operation of Moscow's first store. Naming Moscow. Early town events. Closeness of university and town. Family experiences.	January 6, 1975
Box 12-13	Box 23	(2) 2 hr; 40p Inequality of women in work and marriage. Deficiencies of early college teaching. Mother's character. A divisive revival. Flu and Red Cross in World War I. School, reading, Campfire Girl activities.	January 16, 1975

147: Paolini, Pete. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Elk River, Lewiston 1903

Came from Italy in 1920.

Sawmiller, lumberjack.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13	Box 23	(1) 1.4 hr; 33p Company pressures; importance of union. Lumberjack unity and woods life. Elk River in the twenties. Depression hardships. Life near Florence. First years in America.	October 21, 1976

148: Parker, Naomi Boll. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1906

Parents took a timber homestead after coming from Wisconsin (1905).

Homemaker, raised cattle and silver fox.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13	Box 23	(1) 3 hr; 80p Family values and closeness. Fire of 1910 on homestead. 1914 Bovill fire. Community solidarity. Catholicism in Bovill. East European lumberjacks. Mildred Wells. Hunting. School consolidation; Bovill's decline.	September 1, 1976

149: Phelan, Amanda Asplund. Interviewer: Karen PurteeReturn to Top

Dry Ridge, Troy 1887

Philip Asplund's sister.

Farm wife, housekeeper.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13		(1) with Addie Swanson (daughter) 1 hr; no transcript Childbirths. Childhood experiences and fears. Farm food and visiting. Mother's work. Town trips. Housekeeping in Spokane.	January 3, 1976

150: Pierce, Albert. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Deary, Texas Ridge 1889

Moved from Minnesota with family (1904).

Operated Deary store and farmed.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13	Box 23	(1) 1.6 hr; 35p Deary townsite and fire. Problems of a general store. Old homesteaders. Two murders. Family moves. Potlatch manipulations.	August 22, 1974

151: Pierce, Selina Smith. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Deary 1893

Came from New York after marriage to Albert Pierce (1920).

Homemaker, operated grocery store.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Town fire (1923). Problems of running store. Dislike of farm living. Boarding people.	August 2, 1974

152: Platt, E. J. (Tom). Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Genesee, Salmon River (1903)

Father's family came from Wisconsin (1881), mother's from Kansas (1894).

Livestock operator.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13	Box 23	(1) and William Hickman (cousin), Kenneth Platt (brother) 2.5 hr; 60p Introduction of purebred Herefords by Platt brothers (1896). Livestock operation at Genesee and Salmon Rivers; hardship in winter of 1919. Salmon homesteading. Settlement of Genesee area. Horse show and rodeo. Livery business.	December 3, 1974

153: Platt, KennethReturn to Top

Genesee, Salmon River 1907

Specialist in U.S. Department of Agriculture; author, poet and local historian.

Description
(1) see Platt, E. J.

154: Platz, Ima Hodge. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Palouse 1888

Came from Missouri with parents.

Harvest cook, farm wife.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13		(1) .6 hr; no transcript Cooking for harvest crew. Art of shocking and threshing grain.	February 19, 1975

155: Presby, Curtis. Interviewer: Marilyn ChaneyReturn to Top

Viola 1913

Parents came from Colfax, Washington, and from the Coeur d'Alene district (1912).

Farmer, lumber grader.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13		(1) with Astrid Presby (wife) 1 hr; no transcript Making a living in early days. Neighboring. Self-doctoring. (Interview donated by Marilyn Chaney).	undated

156: Ramsdale, Edward. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

American Ridge, Troy 1896

Emigrated from Eikefjord, Norway (1913).

Farmer.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13	Box 23	(1) 1.5 hr; 28p Experiences as a newcomer. Growing up in Norway. Connections to Idaho.	March 20, 1975
Box 13	Box 23	(2) 2.4 hr; 57p Starting farming as a rentor. Increasing land holdings. Depression and demise of small farms.	May 9, 1975

157: Ringsage, Helmer. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Park, Central Ridge 1888

Parents were Norwegian homesteaders (1890); he is Edward Swenson's nephew.

Farmer, logger.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13	Box 23	(1) 1.9 hr; 49p Mother's death. Woods work in winter. Raising crops and hogs. Hard living at Park (1924-32). Serious accidents.	February 12, 1976
Box 13	Box 23	(2) 2.4 hr; 64p Running away from home. Struggle with a bad neighbor. Family homesteading on the ridge. Country dances.	February 27, 1976
Box 13	Box 23	(3) 2.1 hr; 56p Courtship with wife. Farming for others. Sack sewing in hard times. Work as a boy. Dangerous grade to Clearwater River. Wild Indian ponies.	March 5, 1976
Box 13	Box 23	(4) 1.4 hr; 37p Father's strictness. Fighting as a boy. Education in Spokane and Moscow. Farming on Central Ridge. Division of father's estate. Moscow in the thirties.	April 1, 1976

158: Ringsage, Jean Wilson. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Park, Alberta, British Columbia 1905

Moved to Idaho with husband in 1933.

Farm wife, teacher, nurse's aide.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 13	Box 23	(1) and Stiner Ringsage (husband) 5.5 hr; 149p Parents' backwoods marriage. Her isolated childhood. Women's culture. Single teachers' social life. Laboring in Alberta; subsistence farming near Wainwright. His father's healing powers. Pleasures of city living.	October 5, 1976
Box 13	Box 23	(2) and Stiner Ringsage 5.9 hr; 172p Struggle on Alberta farm in the twenties. Choice of life as a farm wife. Her religious awakening. Contrasts between Idaho and Alberta. Ukranians in Alberta. Birth control information. Portland in World War II.	October 19, 1976
Box 13		(3) and Stiner Ringsage 3.9 hr; no transcript Women's work and families. Her religious sect. Fights and hunting. Rural living.	November 7, 1976

159: Ringsage, SteinerReturn to Top

Park, Alberta, Central Ridge 1890

Helmer Ringsage's brother.

Farmer, laborer.

Description
(1-3) see Ringsage, Jean (1-3)

160: Rowan, Frank. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Troy 1885

Family came from Minnesota (c. 1900).

Road foreman, brickyard worker, logger.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 14	Box 23	(1) and Lottie Rowan (wife) 1.7 hr; 52p Neighbors' squabbles and peculiar behavior. Two murders by spouses. Wildman of Burnt Ridge. Moonshiners' troubles. Woods work during 1910 fire. T.P. Jones.	January 14, 1975
Box 14	Box 23	(2) and Lottie Rowan 2.4 hr; 57p Local characters. Lawlessness around Troy and Grangeville. Wild pets and animals. A visitation.	February 3, 1975

161: Rowan, Lottie JohnsonReturn to Top

Troy 1898

Came from Grangeville, Idaho area.

Farm wife.

Description
(1,2) see Rowan, Frank (1,2)

162: Ruberg, Hilda Carlson. Interviewer: Karen PurteeReturn to Top

Big Meadow, Burnt Ridge, Troy 1893

Family came from North Dakota (1912).

Farm wife, harvest cook, housekeeper.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 14	Box 21	(1) and Helena Carlson (sister-in-law) 2 hr; 64p Work as cook, housekeeper and farmer. Women's responsibilities at home. Childbirth and children's ignorance. Neighborhood entertainment.	June 19, 1976

163: Ryan, Grace WhiteReturn to Top

Bovill 1907

Homemaker, store clerk, logging camp flunkey.

Description
(1) see Cameron, Viola

164: Sampson, Clarice Moody. Interviewer: (1,2) Laura Schrager and (3,4) Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1894

Parents came from Utah (1892).

Homemaker, teacher, clerk at David's Store.

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Box 14	Box 23	(1) 2 hr; 43p Parties, circuses, sleighrides. Consumerism in Moscow. Women's volunteer work in World War I. Father's monument business. Prohibition sentiment. Town visiting.	November 13, 1974
Box 14	Box 23	(2) 1.5 hr; 31p Schooling in Moscow. Interests as a girl. Limitation of career opportunities. Mother's poor health.	January 25, 1975
		(3) see Sampson, Harry (3)
tape	transcript
Box 14	Box 23	(4) 2.8 hr; 73p Friendship formation in Moscow. Young people's socializing. Relations within family. Courtship and marriage. Work experiences. Church activity. Social luncheons.	November 16, 1976

165: Sampson, Harry. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1893

Family came from Wisconsin in 1902.

Manager of men's clothing department at David's Department Store for nearly forty years.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
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Box 14	Box 23	(1) 1.9 hr; 30p Learning the clothing trade. Working for David's. Credit and competition. Moscow business climate. Bringing scouting to town. Ragtime band. Growing up in Moscow.	November 13, 1974
Box 14	Box 23	(2) 2 hr; 36p Building character through scouting. Origin of Moscow golfing and country club. Innovations in men's department. Frank David's psychology of selling. Competition among service clubs. Chatauquas and circuses. Mother's student boarders.	January 25, 1975
Box 14	Box 23	(3) and Clarice Sampson (wife) 1.3 hr; 30p Frank B. Robinson and Psychianna: his relations in Moscow. Mrs. Robinson. End of Psychianna.	August 16, 1976

166: Sandell, Hanna Anderson. Interviewer: Karen PurteeReturn to Top

Johnson, Troy 1891

Parents came from Sweden (c. 1870).

Nurse at Gritman Hospital, homemaker.

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Box 14		(1) 1.8 hr; no transcript Nursing experiences. Growing up on farm; food preparation. Nursing training. Early Moscow and Troy. First cars.	February 7, 1976

167: Sanderson, Byers. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1896

Father came from the South and was Potlatch assistant superintendent; mother came from New York (1880's)

Head mechanic for Potlatch Lumber Company, miner.

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Box 14	Box 23	(1) with John Sanderson (brother) 3 hr; 61p Bovill endangered in 1914 fire. Narrow escape of fire crew. Lumberjack entertainments. Big Red's murder. Early logging camps and fluming. Moonshining and Pat Malone. Weyerhaeuser success.	October 16, 1975
Box 14	Box 23	(2) 1.4 hr; 29p IWW, poor conditions and company tactics. Suffering of families in the depression. Bill Deary; Hugh Bovill.	November 13, 1975
Box 14-15	Box 23	(3) 2.5 hr; 54p Hoodoo and swamp Creek mining. Company control of independent loggers. East European lumberjacks. Arson and murder in Bovill fire. Gambling and moonshine. Strong men.	January 23, 1976
Box 15	Box 23	(4) 3 hr; 58p Experience as CCC camp superintendent. Mistreatment of men by foremen. Bovill at its prime. Failed mining claims. Company monopoly of cedar.	August 25, 1976

168: Sanderson, John. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill 1884

Byers Sanderson's brother.

Maintenance man for Potlatch Lumber Company, photographer.

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Box 15		(1) 2.1 hr; no transcript Stories about Bill Deary, Pat Malone, Mrs. T. P. Jones. Local killings. Life in lumbercamps and early Bovill. Houses of ill-repute. Force in the classroom.	July 25, 1975
		see also Sanderson, Byers (1)

169: Schmaltz, George. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Elk River 1893

Arrived from Sweden in 1912.

Millwright, lumberjack.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 15	Box 23	(1) 2 hr; 34p Tales of a liar, a single man and moonshine. Impact of mill removal. Elk River Japanese. Malker Anderson. Emigration from Sweden.	May 17, 1976
Box 15	Box 23	(2) 2.6 hr; 43p Shacking up for winter. Hunting in and out of season. Whiskey and sporting girls. Jericho Mine. Trapping mink. Work as CCC camp foreman. More characters.	August 27, 1976

170: Schoeffler, Ada Oylear. Interviewer: Karen PurteeReturn to Top

Potlatch Ridge, Cameron 1901

Families came from Missouri and Iowa (1880's).

Farm wife, harvest cook, housekeeper.

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tape	transcript
Box 15	Box 23	(1) 1.3 hr; 15p Hard work on farm and in harvest. Childbirth. Parents. German ways. Caring for children. Housekeeping.	February 7, 1976

171: Schupfer, Herman. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Juliaetta, Kendrick 1892

Parents emigrated from Austria; father homesteaded adjacent to Juliaetta townsite (1879).

Operated local telephone company and theatre; district representative for Washington Water Power.

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Box 15	Box 23	(1) 1.5 hr; 32p Beginnings of telephone service. Founding of Juliaetta. Produce and cannery. Work for electric company. Family pioneer experiences. Nez Perces. Jobs for boys.	July 19, 1973
Box 15	Box 23	(2) 1.5 hr; 33p Tramway operation. Train wrecks and floods in canyon. Subsistence farming. Town socializing. Cannery work.	July 26, 1973

172: Schupfer, Otto. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Juliaetta, Kendrick 1891

Herman Schupfer's brother.

Operated local telephone company and theatre; helped manage electric service.

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tape	transcript
Box 15	Box 23	(1) 1.8 hr; 57p Early telephone service and tramways. Anti-German sentiment in wartime. Foster's hospital and Adam's wheat. Experience versus education. Juliaetta cannery. Porter enterprises.	April 14, 1976
Box 15	Box 23	(2) 2 hr; 58p Early moviehouses, radios and cars. Right-of-way disputes. Juliaetta flour mill. Melon thieves. Trains in Potlatch canyon. Telephone and electric service.	June 1, 1976

173: Settle, Eugene. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Aspendale, Moscow 1894

His was one of the few black families to settle in the area; parents grew up in Mississippi, came in 1899.

Warehouse superintendent for Latah County Grain Growers; farmer.

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Box 15	Box 24	(1) 1.8 hr; 40p Family background. Life at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Pioneering at Bluestem, Washington (1898). Father's struggle to establish a farm. Work and play as a boy. Joe Wells family. End of small farming.	June 3, 1975
Box 15	Box 24	(2) 2 hr; 38p Experience in a segregated unit in Europe during World War I. Acceptance in high school. Brother's career in Virginia; father-in-law's pioneering. Family hay baling operation.	July 7, 1975
Box 15	Box 24	(3) 2.2 hr; 36p Independence of family as farmers. Dealing with job discrimination. Supervising men as warehouse superintendent. Meeting wife's family. Flu epidemic. Father's hunting.	August 4, 1975
Box 15	Box 24	(4) 1.2 hr; 28p Parents' teachings. One-room country school. Store purchases. Country people in Moscow.	December 19, 1975
Box 15	Box 24	(5) 2.1 hr; 42 p Minimal effect of prejudice on family. Socializing in the neighborhood. Farming in hard times. Work as superintendent. Entertainment as a young man. More about Wells family.	January 13, 1976

174: Sherman, Theodore. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1901

Came to Moscow to attend college; father was mayor of Boise.

English professor at University of Idaho (1931-66)

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Box 16	Box 24	(1) 2 hr; 46p University of Idaho in 1920: domination of fraternities; events, traditions and characters. Youth in Boise.	March 24, 1976
Box 16	Box 24	(2) 1 hr; 22p George Morey Miller, English professor. Light of the Mountains, Idaho history pageant. English department. Original musicals.	June 17, 1976

175: Shirrod, Emma Christenson. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Rimrock, Genesee 1885

Parents were Norwegian homesteaders in the 1870's.

Farm wife, store clerk.

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tape	transcript
Box 16		(1) 2 hr; no transcript Family pioneering and childhood experiences. Family illnesses and deaths. Early Genesee. Her courtship.	January 21, 1975

176: Showalter, Ulysses. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Moscow Mountain 1886

Family came from Virginia (c. 1890).

Woodcutter, farmer, moonshiner.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 16	Box 24	(1) 1 hr; 25p Moonshining experiences. Impact of prohibition. Cutting cordwood. Fighting. Poker.	February 4, 1974
Box 16	Box 24	(2) 2 hr; 47p Making moonshine. Stool pigeons and bribes. Arrest. Houses of ill-repute. Crooked gambling. Saloons.	February 20, 1974

177: Smith, Nellie Wood. Interviewer: (1) Rob Moore and (2-6) Sam Schrager Return to Top

Bovill, McGary Butte 1892

Came from Missouri with parents, settling in the area c. 1900.

Homemaker.

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tape	transcript
Box 16	Box 24	(1) 2 hr; 39p Wagon journey from Rexburg to Parma. Family homesteading at McGary Butte. Moving west; living in Laramie, WY; move to Troy.	June 27, 1974
Box 16	Box 24	(2) 2 hr; 39p Charlotte Bovill and family. Arson and murder in Bovill fire. First Bovill school (1907). Get-togethers. Raising children; getting married. Community church. Ladies of the night.	September 10, 1975
Box 16	Box 24	(3) 1.5 hr; 33p Birth of first child; lore of childbirth. Death of baby daughter. Learning sewing and needlework.	September 22, 1975
Box 16	Box 24	(4) 2.5 hr; 54p Evacuation of Bovill in Beal's Butte fire (1914). Mrs. T. P. Jones' role in Bovill. Husband's work for Potlatch. Raising children.	October 3, 1975
Box 16	Box 24	(5) 3 hr; 67p Problems in early marriage; dealing with drinking. Bovill plays; separate social clubs. Family religion. Baby's sickness. Amputation of a leg. A selling contest.	November 13, 1975
Box 16	Box 24	(6) 1.5 hr; 30p Timber homesteading: one family's struggle; mother's miscarriage; development of a home.	January 23, 1976

178: Spencer, Jesse. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Troy 1885

Parents were homesteaders from Kentucky (1884).

Farmer.

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tape	transcript
Box 16	Box 24	(1) and Mabel Spencer (wife) 2.7 hr; 58p Art of horse handling. Homesteading in the Grand Coulee country (1907-19). Caring for her family as a girl. Home remedies. Self-sufficiency. Early events around Troy.	January 29, 1975

179: Spencer, Mabel StephensonReturn to Top

Troy, Moscow Mountain 1892

Family came from Iowa and homesteaded (1898).

Farm wife, harvest cook.

Description
(1) see Spencer, Jesse

180: Stefanos, Mike. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch, Lewiston 1895

Emigrated from Dimalis, Greece (1912).

Sawmiller, operator of shoeshine parlor.

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tape	transcript
Box 16	Box 24	(1) 2 hr; 36p Millwork and opportunities. Greek community in Potlatch. Life in Greece. Coming to Potlatch. Sending money to Greece. Purchasing shoeshine business in the depression.	September 1, 1976

181: Steffen, Kenneth. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1902

Father first came in the 1880's; parents moved from Kansas in 1900.

Ran delivery service, laborer.

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tape	transcript
Box 16	Box 24	(1) 2 hr; 56p Family view of Will Steffen's killing (1901). Life as an apple harvester and dishwasher in eastern Washington. Family farm. Moscow moonshine and other amusements. In the Marines in China.	January 23, 1975
Box 16		(2) 1.3 hr; no transcript Varied work experiences. Moscow livery stables, freighting and pool halls. Parents.	January 13, 1976

182: Stowell, William (Michigan Bill). Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Clearwater River, Bovill area 1903

Came in the mid-twenties; father had a farm and sawmill in Quebec.

Lumberjack.

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Box 16	Box 24	(1) 2 hr; 43p Clearwater River log drives: wanigans, pilots, drownings. Tramp lumberjacks; wide open towns. IWW's and direct action. Foremen and gyppo logging.	October 29, 1975
Box 16	Box 24	(2) 1.5 hr; 42p IWW Strike of 1936: murder of pickets; arrest and blackballing. Strikes on the job. Lumberjack sociability. Picking timber on river drives; fluming.	February 24, 1976
Box 17	Box 24	(3) 2.8 hr; 56p Riding the rails. Jungles. Blowing-in. IWW community; support for 1936 strike in Pierce. Jail and blacklisting. Girl friends. Depression in California. Prostitutes. Fights; gambling.	September 28, 1976

183: Sundberg, Arthur. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Potlatch 1899

Came with parents from Wisconsin in 1909.

Maintenance foreman and lead man in Potlatch mill for forty years.

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Box 17	Box 24	(1) 2 hr; 37p Potlatch as a company town: housing, store, script. Rowdy Midwest logging towns. Bad lumbercamp conditions. Company role in area development. Immigrant labor.	July 11, 1975
Box 17	Box 24	(2) 2.5 hr; 49p Early working conditions in Potlatch mill. Attitudes towards foreign workers. Mill joking and sign language. Operation of mill equipment.	July 18, 1975
Box 17	Box 24	(3) 3 hr; 57p Laird and Deary as general managers. Weyerhaeuser and rags-to-riches theory; ambitions of young. Potlatch baseball. Mill products and car loading. Town whistles.	July 25, 1975
Box 17	Box 24	(4) 2.5 hr; 45p Unionizing: IWW versus company; millworker gullibility; his involvement. Worker aspirations. Foremen-crew relationships. Gyppoing. His work.	August 1, 1975
Box 17	Box 24	(5) 3 hr; 54p Mill safety problems. Company management of town. Cooperation in the depression. Worker stagnation; character of Nob Hill. Power transmission in mill.	August 7, 1975

184: Sundell, Theodore. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Troy 1895

Parents emigrated from Sweden to Minnesota then to Latah County in 1900.

Warehouseman, carpenter, brick plant worker.

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Box 17	Box 24	(1) and Ida Asplund (friend) 1.5 hr; 43p A mean marshall and a mean teacher. July Fourth and other community pleasures. Harvest work. Desire to come to America. Clearing land. Drinking in prohibition.	March 3, 1974

185: Sweeney, Nellie Edwin. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1883

Grandfather, Peter Carlson, was the first Swedish Lutheran minister in the area (1870's).

Teacher, pea processor, homemaker.

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tape	transcript
Box 17	Box 24	(1) 1 hr; 10p Grandfather's works and closeness to God. Stories about swearing and religion. Teaching experiences.	July 3, 1974

186: Swenson, Edward. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Park, Alberta 1883

Family emigrated from Norway and homesteaded (1891).

Farmer, carpenter.

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tape	transcript
Box 17	Box 24	(1) 1 hr; 19p First years of homesteading at Park: locating, building, surviving. Community construction of road to Troy. Appearance of valley.	July 1, 1974
Box 17	Box 24	(2) 2 hr; 36p Park back country: wild game, camping, Nez Perces. Building church; celebrating Christmas. Homestead work. Saloons. Lack of opportunity at Park.	July 2, 1974
Box 17	Box 24	(3) .5 hr; 7p Nilson, a foolish miner. Mail service to Park.	July 5, 1974
Box 17	Box 24	(4) 2.5 hr; 50p Relationship of children to parents. Community socializing and religion. Problems with church doctrines; spirit experiences. Farming struggle near Wainwright, Alberta (1918-1925). Decline of Park.	August 10, 1976

187: Thomason, Anna Bengston. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Dry Ridge, Troy 1899

Came from Torsby, Sweden in 1928.

Farm wife.

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tape	transcript
Box 17	Box 24	(1) and Oscar Thomason (husband) 2.9 hr; 65p Adaptation to America. Life in Sweden: family's religion, social classes. Lore of America in Sweden. Family connections to Troy. Her journey to Troy. Banker Ole Bohman.	February 3, 1976
Box 17	Box 24	(2) and Oscar Thomason 2.5 hr; 56p Family divisions about emigration. Oppression of poor in Sweden. Food shortage following World War I. Logging in Norway and Idaho. Work of Swedish women. Owning a farm.	March 19, 1976

188: Thomason, Oscar Return to Top

Dry Ridge, Troy 1901

Came from Northern Sweden in 1927.

Logger.

Description
(1-2) see Thomason, Anna (1-2)

189: Thurtle, Alice Hall. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Avon 1889

Family came from Iowa in 1888.

Farm wife.

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tape	transcript
Box 17		(1) .5 hr; no transcript Courtship. School and entertainment. Subsistence farming.	November 30, 1973

190: Torgerson, George. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Park, Elk River 1892

Father was a Norwegian homesteader (c. 1890).

Ran drayline, did road maintenance, farmed.

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tape	transcript
Box 17		(1) 2 hr; no transcript Homesteaders around Elk River. Prosperity of Elk River; devastating impact of mill removal. Settlement at Park. Moving from Elk River.	May 17, 1976

191: Tribble, Hershiel A. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Hatter Creek, Princeton 1896

Parents settled in 1880's; mother was from Willamette Valley, Oregon.

Woods clerk and scaler.

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tape	transcript
Box 17		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Local persistence in 1893 depression. Unspoiled pioneer country. Art of scaling and clerking. Murder of Chinese miners. Mother's jobs.	July 16, 1973
Box 18	Box 24	(2) 1.5 hr; 50p Foreign workers and conditions in Potlatch logging camps. Unreasonable IWW demands in 1917 strike; his role as Four-L representative. Tricks of log scaling. Medicine show come-ons. Courtship and marriage.	July 23, 1973

192: Tribble, Lolah Benge. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Hatter Creek, Princeton 1902

Dick Benge's sister; Hershiel Tribble's wife.

Farm wife.

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tape	transcript
Box 18		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Teenage years: dances, teachers, work. Settling in Idaho. Neighborhood closeness.	July 23, 1973

193: Utt, Anna Gleason. Interviewer: (1) Laura Schrager and (2) Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Harvard, Hatter Creek 1906

Parents moved from Spangle, Washington (1911).

Teacher, farm wife.

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tape	transcript
Box 18		(1) 1 hr; no transcript Family life. Parents' view of school and dances. Getting settled at Harvard.	October 19, 1973
		(2) see Utt, Emmett (4); see also (3)

194: Utt, Emmett. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Hatter Creek, Princeton, Potlatch 1903

Parents moved from Kansas (c. 1894).

Sawyer in Potlatch mill, farmer.

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Box 18	Box 24	(1) 1.5 hr; 39p Retaliations against Potlatch Lumber Company arrogance. Winter logging. Gold Hill gold; father's mining and bad mining stock.	May 7, 1973
Box 18	Box 24	(2) 1.6 hr; 43p Sympathy for Indians as a boy. Murders of Chinese miners and a tramp. Persecution of an ex-thief. IWW sabotage to pressure company. Gypsies; bootleggers; the Klan. New-fangled machinery. Demise of forest wilderness.	August 10, 1973
Box 18	Box 24	(3) with Anna Utt (wife) 1.9 hr; 50p A boy's adventures on horse, bicycle, sled and skates. Competition with a friend. Motorcycling. Coming of cars. Working in Potlatch sawmill: sources of conflict in the crew; art of running saws.	October 19, 1973
Box 18	Box 24	(4) and Anna Utt 2.3 hr; 58p Her work as a "servant girl" on Potlatch Nob Hill. Class snobbery and self-made men. Dating and marriage. Depression days. Gas rationing. Relation of country people to Potlatch.	November 14, 1975

195: Vine, Rannie (Ma) Johnson. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Elk River 1882

Raised in Wisconsin; came via eastern Montana (c. 1918).

Homemaker, kept boarders, worked in hotel.

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tape	transcript
Box 18	Box 24	(1) 2.3 hr; 50p Working at Elk River. Goodness of IWW's. Recovery from tuberculosis. Homesteading in eastern Montana. Klan; bootleggers. Closure of mill. Good life at Elk River.	July 8, 1976

196: Wahl, Elizabeth GambleReturn to Top

Paradise Ridge, Genesee 1905

Lola Gamble Clyde's sister; Tom Wahl's wife.

Teacher, farm wife.

Description
(1) see Clyde, Lola (4)
(2) see Wahl, Tom (3)

197: Wahl, Tom. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Grey Eagle District, Genesee 1911

Father's family came from California (1879), mother from the Willamette Valley, Oregon (1890).

Farmer, research engineer at Washington State University.

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tape	transcript
		(1) see Clyde, Lola (4)
Box 18	Box 24	(2) 2 hr; 46p Relations between hired help and farm families. Butchering bees. Winter work and isolation.	March 10, 1976
Box 18	Box 24	(3) and Elizabeth Wahl (wife) 2.5 hr; 58p Teaching and rural communities. Relations with Nez Perces and blacks. Family farming life. Early homesteading; J.P. Vollmer.	April 4, 1977

198: Waldron, Kate Sanderson. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Bovill, Moscow 1890

Byers Sanderson's sister.

Head clerk in department store, logging camp flunkey, homemaker.

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tape	transcript
Box 18	Box 24	(1) 1.2 hr; 27p Flight and loss in the 1914 fire. Work as an early woman flunkey. Christian rebirth. Sunday school teaching.	July 8, 1976
Box 18	Box 24	(2) 2 hr; 50p Family closeness. Clerking a failing business. Meeting husband. Divine healing. Bible study; Ladies' Aid. Opposition to swearing.	August 25, 1976

199: Waterman, Merton. Interviewer: Grace WicksReturn to Top

Moscow 1896

Parents came from Illinois via Texas (1910).

Mail carrier, laborer, farmer.

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tape	transcript
Box 18	Box 24	(1) .5 hr; no transcript Working career. Short course at university. Family background.	February 2, 1973

200: Wells, Elmer. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Moscow 1878

Moved from North Carolina in 1902.

Laborer.

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tape	transcript
Box 18	Box 24	(1) 1 hr; no transcript Troubleshooting for a Moscow bank during depression. Chicanery of Harding presidency; fall of Woodrow Wilson. Republican domination of Idaho.	August 24, 1973
Box 18	Box 24	(2) .8 hr; no transcript Joe Wells in North Carolina. Decision to leave North Carolina. Men who became wealthy.	November 15, 1974

201: Wheeler, Ruby Canfield. Interviewer: Laura SchragerReturn to Top

Harvard 1893

Parents came from Massachusetts and New Jersey (1877).

Homemaker.

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tape	transcript
Box 18	Box 24	(1) 1.7 hr; 10p Palouse River town life. Entertainment for young. Woods camping. Homestead practices.	April 9, 1974

202: Whitman, Bess Beardsley. Interviewer: Rob MooreReturn to Top

Moscow 1891

Della Johnson's sister.

Homemaker, store clerk.

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tape	transcript
Box 18	Box 24	(1) .5 hr; no transcript Mother's skill and determination. Family's horse drive from California; loss of horses. Development of Penney's Store chain.	March 1, 1974

203: Wicks, Grace Jain. Interviewer: (1) Rob Moore and (2-5) Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Genesee, Coyote Grade 1906

Father's family came from Wisconsin (1878), mother's from Michigan (1892).

County commissioner and civic leader; homemaker.

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tape	transcript
Box 18		(1) 1.5 hr; no transcript Pioneering ways and hardships at Genesee. Father's family pioneering. Family background.	June 12, 1974
Box 18	Box 24	(2) 1.5 hr; 30p Growing up on the family farm: reading, music and pen-pal club. Farm animals and orchard. Mother's frailty as a pioneer. Nez Perce families. Jane Silcott; Brocky Jack.	October 3, 1974
Box 18	Box 24	(3) 1.5 hr; 30p Heart-in-hand and Indian-white marriages. Pride in housekeeping. Washdays. Family hardship in World War I. Genesee culture, stock show, stores.	October 4, 1974
Box 18-19	Box 24	(4) 1.5 hr; 18p Close ties among Genesee families. Stories of people buried near Jain family plot. Family Republicanism. Honoring war veterans. Town bells. Farm water supplies. Old Kentuck.	October 8, 1974
Box 19	Box 24	(5) 2 hr; 21p Great aunt’s independence and homesteading. Grandparents’ pioneering. Parents’ struggle to establish farm. Family politics.	December 11, 1974

204: Wilkins, Kenneth. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Avon 1902

Grandfather was first homesteader in Avon area (1884), coming from Indiana.

Farmer.

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tape	transcript
Box 19		(1) with Dorothy Wilkins (wife) 2.5 hr; no transcript	June 23, 1975

205: Wurman, Mamie Sisk. Interviewer: Sam SchragerReturn to Top

Princeton, Palouse 1887

Parents came from Missouri and homesteaded near Princeton (1886).

Farm wife.

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tape	transcript
Box 19	Box 24	(1) and Mary Lynd (friend), Mamie Munden (niece); with Glen Gilder (friend) 2.4 hr; 73p Keeping and raising children; closeness of family unit. Community get-togethers. Home doctoring. Difficult farming experiences. Lack of conveniences. Girls' work.	June 24, 1975

AddendumReturn to Top

Interviews not included in Sam Schrager's guide:

Container(s)		Description	Dates
tape	transcript
Box 19		Borah, Mary McConnell	undated
Box 19		Clyde, Lola Gamble	December 6, 1975
Box 5		Clyde, Lola Gamble	November 10, 1982
Box 5		Cushman, John Huston	October 27, 1977
Box 7	Box 21	Gilder, Glen with Agnes Clark Gilder. Interviewer: Sam Schrager	June 28, 1978
Box 7	Box 21	Gilder, Glen with Agnes Clark Gilder. Interviewer: Sam Schrager	August, 1978
Box 7		Gleave, James. Interviewer: Sam Schrager	July 6, 1978
Box 19		Grove, Clara Payne	January 17, 1973
Box 19	Box 19	Hosack, Robert and Nancy Hosack (wife). Interviewer: Joann Jones	December 5, 1984
Box 9		Johanson, Nellie Olson	June 22, 1978
Box 10	Box 21	Machlied, Pauline (Pearl) with Florence Melder Lange. Interviewer: Rachel Foxman	May 1, 1978
Box 11		Morris, Jennie Robinson	June 16, 1978
Box 19		Nelson, Elsie M. Interviewer: Denise May	October 28, 1977
Box 19	Box 19	Nelson, Leon. Interviewer: Joann Jones	September 11, 1985
Box 19	Box 19	Rossebo, Stella. Interviewer: Joann Jones	July 30, 1986
Box 15	Box 21	Schimke, Margaret with Weldon Schimke. Interviewer: Rachel Foxman	April 11, 1978
Box 15-16	Box 21	Settle, Eugene	August 9, 1978
Box 19		Ware, Marcus	April 6, 1971

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