Collection is open for research.
Gifts of Samuel Trueblood made in 2005 and 2007 (Lib. Accs. 25746 and 26276).
Angie Ripley Owen Trueblood was born Angie Goldsmith Owen in 1894 to Samuel and Angie Ripley Owen in Saginaw, Michigan. Following her mother's death when she was 13 years old, Trueblood changed her name to her mother's, Angie Ripley Owen. In 1907, she moved to Oswego, Oregon (later Lake Oswego, Oregon) with her father and his second wife. There, she studied at Portland Academy. During this time she corresponded extensively with her childhood friend Margaret Gallagher.
Angie Ripley Owen married Harrison Woody Trueblood in April 1917. The couple had one son, Samuel. Trueblood and her husband both served in the U.S. military. She lived in Lake Oswego for most of her life. She died in a nursing home in Los Angeles, California, in January 1994.
Margaret Mather Gallagher (later Ealy) was born in 1893 in Saginaw, Michigan. She was childhood friends with Angie Owen Trueblood and corresponded with her after Trueblood moved to Oregon. Ealy saved the letters that Trubelood wrote to her and returned them to Trueblood years later. She married Milton Davies Ealy in 1913, and died in 1977.
Marjorie Cameron attended Portland Academy with Angie Owen Trueblood, and worked as an army nurse at the close of World War I.
Collection was cataloged as Angie Trueblood photograph albums (Accession 26276) and Angie Ripley Owen Trueblood correspondence (Accession 25746) prior to October 2019.
The collection includes a brief biographical sketch of Trueblood and identifications of individuals mentioned in Trueblood's letters to Gallagher. The sketch and identifications are located at the front of Box 1.
Angie Owen Trueblood papers, Coll 807, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
The transcript of an oral history with Angie Owen Trueblood and Elsie Sadelek is included in Mss 2362, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
The collection consists of correspondence, photograph albums, and a yearbook from Angie Owen Trueblood's teenage years and early adulthood. The bulk of the collection consists of letters that Trueblood wrote to her childhood friend Margaret Gallagher of Saginaw, Michigan, while Trueblood was living in Oswego, Oregon, and attending Portland Academy. Other materials in the collection are letters that Marjorie Cameron sent to Trueblood while Cameron was working as an army nurse; the 1912 Portland Academy yearbook, "The Troubador"; and two photograph albums depicting Trueblood, Gallagher, Cameron, and others.
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