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Oral history interview with Frederick Clausen [Session 01, Recording 01]
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- 1981-10-27 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:27:51
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Frederick Clausen was born in Ryd, Sweden, in 1889. In 1903, he came to the United States and worked on his uncle's farm in the Pomme de Terre River Valley in Minnesota. A few years later, he moved to another relative's dairy farm in Silvana, Washington. Around 1906, he came to Portland, Oregon, and began working in the grocery trade. He served in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1919. In 1920, he became a U.S. citizen. In 1921, he and Dorothy A. Lamon were married; they later had one child. During World War II, he owned a grocery store in Southeast Portland. He died in 1985.
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Tape 1, Side 1. In the first interview session, conducted on October 27, 1981, Clausen discusses how he came to the United States from Sweden in 1903, and talks about working on his uncle's farm in the Pomme de Terre River Valley in Minnesota, and on another relative's dairy farm in Silvana, Washington. He describes life in Portland, Oregon, in the early 20th century and talks about working in the grocery trade. He describes making deliveries and talks about how the Depression affected the grocery trade. He then talks about owning a grocery store in Southeast Portland during World War II and about how rationing affected his business.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- Dodds, Linda S. (Contributor)