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MARVIN ROWLEY Family History and Management of the OSU Research Forests Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1946–1986 Oral History Interviews by Royal G MARVIN ROWLEY Family History and Management of the OSU Research Forests Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1946–1986 Oral History Interviews by Royal G. Jackson, Jennifer Lee, and Bob Zybach Soap Creek Valley History Project OSU Research Forests Monograph #15 SOAP CREEK VALLEY, OREGON, ORAL HISTORY SERIES Monograph #1: Lorna Grabe. Family History and the Story of the Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation, Benton County, Oregon. Monograph #2: Paul M. Dunn. Biographical Sketch and Story of the Adair Tract, Benton County, Oregon. Monograph #3: Donald Dickey. Family History and Life on Berry Creek, Benton County, Oregon: 1928–1942. Monograph #4: Edward Sekermestrovich. Life at CCC Camp Arboretum, Benton County, Oregon: 1935–1940. Monograph #5: John Jacob & Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919–1941. Monograph #6: James Hanish. Biographical Sketch and a Tour of Berry Creek, Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1930–1938. Monograph #7: Charlie Olson. Biographical Sketch and Early History of Sulphur Springs, Benton County, Oregon: 1900–1920. Monograph #8: Neil Vanderburg. Family Farming and Saw Milling on Berry Creek, Benton County, Oregon: 1935–1941. Monograph #9: Eugene Glender. Growing up on a Tampico Family Farm, Benton County, Oregon: 1910–1941. Monograph #10: Velma Carter Rawie. A History of the Carter Family and the Town of Wells, Benton County, Oregon: 1845–1941. Monograph #11: Bessie Murphy. Botanizing in Benton County, Oregon: 1900–1991. Monograph #12: Wanda Marcks Cook. The Story of the Sulphur Springs Stock Ranch, Benton County, Oregon: 1904–1939. Monograph #13: William A. Davies. Biographical Sketch and Management of OSU Research Forests, Benton & Polk Counties, Oregon: 1946–1973. Monograph #14: Charles & Norman Hindes. Family History and Story of the Soap Creek Sawmilling and Logging Camp, Benton County, Oregon: 1928–1931. Monograph #15: Marvin Rowley. Family History and Management of Oregon State University Research Forests, Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1946–1986. i ii MARVIN ROWLEY Family History and Management of the OSU Research Forests Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1946–1995 Oral History Interviews by Royal G. Jackson, Jennifer Lee, and Bob Zybach Soap Creek Valley History Project OSU Research Forests Monograph #15 2009 iii iv AcKNOWLEDGMENTS The purpose of this project is to better understand the history of an area that has been managed by the College of Forestry since 1929 when Mary J. L. McDonald began making contributions to obtain land adjacent to the Arboretum for what would become McDonald-Dunn Forest. The Soap Creek Valley History Project is the outgrowth of an oral history project begun in the 1970s by Royal Jackson under the direction of John Beuter. Funding for the Soap Creek Valley History Project is provided by the Oregon State University (OSU) College of Forestry. The Soap Creek Valley History Project was authorized initially in 1989 by Dr. William Atkinson, former Director of the OSU Research Forests. The oral history portion of this project remained under Dr. Atkinson’s direction until January 1994, when it was assigned to Jeffrey Garver, Manager of the OSU Research Forests. In December of that year, responsibility for the oral histories was given to Ann Rogers, Cultural Resources Manager for the OSU Research Forests. The project has since been continued by Deborah Johnson and David Lysne. This publication was produced by the Forestry Communications Group of the College of Forestry. Special thanks go to Tim Hills, of McMenamins, for providing photos of the Multnomah Poor Farm (now McMenamins Edgefield), and to theT routdale Historical Society for allowing their use. Publication by the OSU College of Forestry does not necessarily imply the endorsement or support of views expressed herein. Cover photo: Marvin Rowley standing on McCulloch Peak in McDonald Forest. v vi Marv Rowley Oral History Areas of Interest McDonald-Dunn Forest vii viii TABLE OF CONTENTS Interviews Part I. January 25, 1979 .....................................................................1 Part II. January 31, 1979 ...................................................................16 Part III. February 6, 1979 ..................................................................38 Part IV. February 7, 1979 ..................................................................44 Part V. February 23, 1991 ................................................................57 Part VI. May 8, 1995 .........................................................................97 Appendices Appendix A. Marv’s Songs, by Marvin L. Rowley, Class of 1950 .....115 The Fernhopper Legend ...............................................................115 I Fell a Tree ...................................................................................116 The Song of theT rees ...................................................................117 The Saga of Mount Saint Helens, or What Really Happened May 18 ..................................................118 Appendix B. Seventy-fiveY ears with the Oregon State University School of Forestry’s Forestry Clubs ....................................................121 Index ..................................................................................................................127 ix x PART I - January 25, 1979 [Interview conducted by Royal Jackson and Jennifer Lee at Peavy Hall, Oregon State University.] What were the names of your grandparents? My grandmother and grandfather were Gangles. Gangles? Gangle. That’s an Austrian family. My grandfather came from Austria; my grandmother was born in Minnesota. Her mother had just arrived from Sweden. She was Swedish. Why did they come to this country? Well, I think my grandmother came here about the time there was a large migration from the Scandinavian countries, and basically they left the Scandinavian country because of over- population. In those countries the wars of the earlier times had ceased, and they had a fairly prosperous period. Large families had the tradition to divide the land among the sons. The farmlands were being divided into unproductive areas. As I understand from talking to some of these people, they actually raised funds to ship the sons off toA merica, or to help them get passage to America so they wouldn’t have to break the farm into smaller units. Do you remember your grandparents? Oh, yes, my grandmother. My grandmother and grandfather were divorced. I just saw my grandfather once. My grandmother had a real influence in my life. She was a real, oh, what we’d call a “character” in a way. Real self-sufficient. She’d been left with a large family to take care of herself. She washed clothes for people, did housework, picked fruit. This was in Minnesota? No, in Oregon. That’s after they’d come to Oregon that this happened. Why did they come to Oregon? Well, I think my great-grandmother and her husband had come to Woodland, Washington, some time earlier. About 1910, my grandmother, grandfather, and family came to Oregon. My grandfather had a variety of jobs. He worked in the woods as a busheler and a saw-filer back in those days. Are we talking about your [grand]parents on your mother’s side? Yes, on my mother’s side. Of course, my grandmother cooked, and cooked in logging camps a lot of times. On my father’s side—my father was born in Vancouver, and I was born in Port- land. Vancouver, Washington? Vancouver, Washington. His family background, the Rowleys, came from early pioneer stock. The earliest records inN ew England have Rowleys in them, and as far back as we know is Saratoga County, New York, about 1800. The family came toI llinois about 1850, and on west the next generations. 1 What ancestry is that? Oh, basically English. And my great-great-grandmother was French-Canadian. Her name was Nepiere [Mary E. Nepiere]. But my father was born in Vancouver. His mother was a Manny, and her family was a Scotch-Irish family. They were in the sawmill business in the Seattle area. In 1905, my father’s family moved to Seattle and my grandfather worked for his father-in-law in a sawmill where downtown Seattle is now. My dad and his uncle greased skids on a skid road. I think as near as I can gather, it was near Lake Washington, probably around where the University of Washington is. Do you remember that as a kid? No, no. That was a long time before I was born. I was born in Portland. They were only up there three or four years, and then came back to Portland. How did your father happen to come to Oregon? Well, he was born in Vancouver, Washington. His family moved to Seattle, and then to Port- land about 1906. How did he come to Washington? Where did he come from? Well, I don’t know. His parents were born in Illinois, and his grandparents were born in Il- linois, and I think they came, too. I’m not sure if it was just his dad who came west, or if he came with his parents. There were quite a few of the family in the Portland area, so I have an idea that they kind of came together. At the time of the Second World War, every Rowley in the Portland phone book was my relative—about a dozen of them. And now there are hun- dreds of them I guess. That was in Portland? Yes, in Portland. Everyone in Oregon was a relative I knew about, but there were a lot I didn’t know about. What year were you born? In 1924. In Portland out near the Lents District. Are you familiar with it? When I was four years old we moved to Tualatin, two miles southeast of Tualatin, to a place we nick-named “the sticks.” Why did you move there? Well, the folks had bought a five-acre tract, and the place was called the “Comte and Colman Tract.” All the logged-off areas had been subdivided into five-acre tracts. They wanted to get out of town. Was your dad a logger? No, he was a printer. Practically all his life he was a printer. Although he worked at different times, not in the woods, I wouldn’t say, but he worked around the woods people. Most of his family, you know, were in the woods. My uncles were woodworkers on both sides of my family.
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