Collection is open for research.
Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by David Drumheller in 1987. The accession number is retro-0486.
Oscar Drumheller was born in November, 1866, in Walla Walla, Washington. He married Elizabeth Drumheller, with whom he had three children, Marrion, Dorris, and William. He died in August, 1935.
The Drumheller Family Records consist of business documents, an abstract of title, and a scrapbook of newspaper articles describing the journey westward. These records, which date from 1862 through 1976, also contain information about the Drumheller Building and the 1931 Mill Creek Flood, in Walla Walla, Washington, and an account of the Drumheller horse racing history.