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Oral history interview with Margaret L. Furrow [Session 01, Recording 02]
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- 1985-08-22 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:30:07
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Margaret Lucille Furrow, nee Mohr, was born in Hood River, Oregon, in 1913. Her grandfather, Peter Mohr, had the first commercial orchard in the area. In the 1930s, she and William Harry Furrow were married; they later had nine children. She worked as a fruit picker and fruit packer for Nakamura Orchards, Inc., in Hood River. She died in 2001.
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Tape 1, Side 2. In the first interview session, conducted on August 22, 1985, Furrow discusses her family background, particularly regarding her grandfather, Peter Mohr, who owned the first commercial orchard in Hood River, Oregon. She describes daily life on the family orchard and dairy farm in Hood River. She talks about working as a fruit packer for Nakamura Orchards.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the estate of Margaret L. Furrow. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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- English
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- Dairy farming--Oregon
- Farm life--Oregon
- Fruit--Harvesting
- Fruit--Packaging
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
- Orchards » Orchards--Oregon
- Selling--Fruit--Oregon
- Diamond Fruit Growers Inc. (Odell, Or.)
- Nakamura Orchards, Inc. (Hood River, Or.)
- Hood River County Historical Society
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- Koen, William (Contributor)