Malcolm H. Clark lecture on the history of Oregon, 1982 February 4
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Speaker
- Clark, Malcolm, 1917-
- Title
- Malcolm H. Clark lecture on the history of Oregon
- Dates
- 1982 February 41982-02-041982-02-04
- Quantity
- 0.1 cubic feet, (1 audiocassette (53 min., 49 sec.))
- Collection Number
- SR 9592
- Summary
- Audio recording of a lecture given by Malcolm H. Clark, Jr. on February 4, 1982. Clark discusses the history of the Oregon Territory and a 19th-century legal case regarding the estate of Finice Caruthers.
- Repository
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Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Digitization funded by the James F. Miller Endowment.
Biographical Note
Malcolm Hamilton Clark, Jr. was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1917. He dropped out of college to pursue a career as a writer. During the 1940s, he published several short stories in pulp magazines under pseudonyms. In 1943, he and Elsie June Kimpton were married; they later had two children. In the 1950s, he and his young family returned to Portland, and he worked in a law office with his brother. He was the author of "Eden Seekers: The Settlement of Oregon, 1818-1862" and editor of "Pharisee Among Philistines: The Diary of Judge Matthew P. Deady." In 1984, he remarried to Barbara Serrell. Clark died in 1989.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Clark in an oral history interview, SR 9366, also held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Other Descriptive Information
An incomplete transcript (9 pages) is available for in-person use at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Content Description
Audio recording of a lecture given by Malcolm H. Clark, Jr., at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, on February 4, 1982, as part of the Oregon Country Conversations Lecture Series. The audio was recorded by Linda S. Dodds. Clark was introduced by Oregon Historical Society Executive Director Tom Vaughan.
In this lecture, Clark discusses his book "Eden Seekers," and talks about the history of the Oregon Territory, as well as the early years of Oregon's statehood. He closes his lecture by describing a 19th-century legal case regarding the estate of Finice Caruthers.
Use of the Collection
Alternative Forms Available
Audio available online in OHS Digital Collections.
Preferred Citation
Malcolm H. Clark, Jr. lecture on the history of Oregon, SR 9592, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Administrative Information
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Authors, American--Oregon
- Estates (Law)--Oregon
- Historians--Oregon
Personal Names
- Caruthers, Finice, -1860--Estate
Geographical Names
- Oregon Territory--History
- Oregon--History--1859-
Form or Genre Terms
- lectures
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Vaughan, Thomas, 1924-2013 (speaker)
