A transcript of an oral history of Don Mackenzie. Part of the Hillsboro High School oral history project undertaken by Katie Margaret Hortenstine for her Girl Scount Gold Award project.
A transcript of an oral history of George, Marsha and Ike Iwasaki. Part of the Hillsboro High School oral history project undertaken by Katie Margaret Hortenstine for her Girl Scount Gold Award project.
A transcript of an oral history of Shirley Meeuwsen. Part of the Hillsboro High School oral history project undertaken by Katie Margaret Hortenstine for her Girl Scount Gold Award project.
A transcript of an oral history done by email of Mike McCloud. Part of the Hillsboro High School oral history project undertaken by Katie Margaret Hortenstine for her Girl Scount Gold Award project.
A transcript of an oral history of Lynn Shrauger. Part of the Hillsboro High School oral history project undertaken by Katie Margaret Hortenstine for her Girl Scount Gold Award project.
A transcript of an oral history of Alpha Williams, a longtime resident of Beaverton, Oregon. Topics include: family ancestry; relatives on Allen Avenue in Beaverton; father's work in logging, the railroad and the brickyard; learning to sew; walking to school in Beaverton; teaching in Pistol River; Fairview home; joining the Women's Army Corps (WACs); completing her education; mother's work in the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) working for women's suffrage and closing saloons; father briefly joining the Ku Klux Klan (KKK); working at starch factory; the red train; politics; the Beaverton school system; and other topics.
A partial transcript of an oral history of Harry Johnson, who apparently worked as a detective for the Washington County Sheriff in the early 1900s. The transcript is a fragment of a longer document and is missing some words. It is undated but may have been created in the 1970s or 1980s.
A transcript of an oral history of Bud Barnes and J. J. Nagel on the county sheriff and police services in Washington County, Oregon, from the 1930s-1950s. The oral histories appear to have been created on the occasion of a museum exhibit related to police services. Topics include: alcohol and crime; improvements to radios and equipment over time; differences in staffing and training; sheriffs collecting taxes; and other topics. The transcript is undated, but may have been created in the 1980s or 1990s.
A transcript of an oral history of Elza Frances Zimmer on Lenox and Bolsinger Family pioneer history in Oregon. Much of the transcript consists of Mrs. Zimmer reading from and commenting on written sources about events in the 1840s. Topics include: her grandmother Margaret Bolssinger's journey on the Oregon Trail; her grandmother's second marriage to David Thomas Lenox; Lenox Family history; David Lenox's founding of the West Union Baptist Church near modern-day Hillsboro in the 1840s, which was the first Baptist Church west of the Rocky Mountains; ferries and paths on the Oregon Trail; events near Hillsboro in the 1840s; David Lenox's history in Kentucky and Missouri before coming to Oregon; and other topics. The transcript is undated but may have been created between the mid-1970s to mid 1990s.
A transcript of an oral history of three Washington County residents: Mary Gress, Ernst Hatter, and Ina Frettim. Topics include: helping their father to clear land and harvest timber; missing school and not being able to graduate; the difficulties of living in poverty on pensions or disability payments. Some of the pages of the transcript repeat. The oral history is undated but may have been created in the 1970s or early 1980s based on the content.
